KEARY, Annie (2 dau. of rev. Wm. Keary, R. of Bilton, Yorkshire, d. 1856). b. Bilton 3 March 1825; lived at Addison road, Kensington 1854–71; travelled in Egypt 1858; often resided at Pegomas near Cannes, where she wrote some of her books; joined Church of Rome; author of Early Egyptian history. Anon. 1861; Little Wanderlin and other fairy tales 1865; Oldburg 3 vols. 1869; The nations around Palestine 1870; A York and a Lancaster rose 1876; Castle Daly, the story of an Irish home 3 vols. 1875; A doubting heart 3 vols. 1879; Sidney Grey, or a year from home 1883. d. Eastbourne 3 March 1879. Memoir of Annie Keary by her sister (1882), portrait; Macmillan’s Mag. xlii 259–67 (1880).
KEATE, JOHN (son of Wm. Keate, prebendary of Wells, d. 1795). b. Wells, Somerset 1773; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., carried off 4 of sir Wm. Browne’s medals 1793–5, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, D.D. 1810; assistant master Eton 1795–1802, lower master 1802–9, head master 1809 to 1834; on 30 June 1832 he flogged more than 80 boys, his success as a teacher was considerable, although a severe disciplinarian he was popular, and on his resignation he left in the college 570 boys; canon of Windsor 14 March 1820 to death; V. of Nether Stowey, Somerset 1820–24; R. of Hartley Westpall, Hants. 1824–49; edited T. Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri sex 1813, and in Fasciculus Carminum. Etonæ 1839 wrote Immortalitas Animæ pp. 17–21. d. Hartley Westpall rectory 5 March 1852. H. C. Maxwell Lyte’s History of Eton college (1875) 358–404, 2 portraits; C. A. Wilkinson’s Reminiscences of Eton in Keate’s times (1887).
KEATE, Robert (brother of the preceding). b. Laverton 14 March 1777; ed. at Bath gr. sch. to 1792; studied at St. George’s hospital, London 1793; hospital mate at Chelsea hospital 1794; member of Surgeons’ Corporation 1798; staff surgeon in the army 1798; inspector general 21 Jany. 1807, placed on h.p. 25 March 1810; assistant surgeon at St. George’s hospital 1800, surgeon 1813–53; examiner of college of surgeons 1827–55, pres. 1830, 31 and 39; surgeon extraordinary to Wm. IV. 1830–2 and surgeon 1832–7; sergeant surgeon to Victoria 1841 to death; a firstrate operator. d. 11 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 2 Oct. 1857. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections (1874) 378–85, 510–19; Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. ii 51 (1858).
Note.—He is reported to have said, I have attended four sovereigns and have been badly paid for my services; one of them now deceased owed me nine thousand guineas. No doubt George IV. is alluded to.
KEATE, Robert William (younger son of the preceding). b. 15 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 16 June 1814; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1842; played with Marylebone cricket club several seasons, was in Oxford eleven 1833, 34, 35, member of the I. Zingari; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844; civil commissioner of the Seychelles 1849; governor of Grenada 1853–6; governor of Trinidad, Nov. 1856 to April 1864; governor of Natal 20 Feb. 1867 to 1872; governor in chief of West Coast settlement 30 Nov. 1872 to death, d. Cape Coast Castle 17 March 1873. Cricket Scores, ii 192 (1862), v p. xv (1876).
KEATING, Sir Henry Singer (3 son of sir Henry Sheehy Keating, K.C.B., d. 1846). b. Dublin 13 Jany. 1804; barrister I.T. 4 May 1832, bencher 27 April 1849 to 1859 and 1877 to death; Q.C. Feb. 1849; M.P. for Reading 1852–9, introduced and passed The Bills of Exchange act 1854; solicitor general 2 June 1857 to March 1858 and 18 June to 14 Dec. 1859; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; serjeant-at-law Dec. 1859; judge of court of common pleas 14 Dec. 1859 to 5 Feb. 1875 when retired on pension; P.C. 4 Feb. 1875; edited with J. S. Willes, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various branches of the law, with notes, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1849 and 4 ed. 2 vols. 1856. d. St. Leonards 1 Oct. 1888. Drawing room portrait gallery, 3rd series (1860), portrait; The Statesmen of England (1862), portrait 34; I.L.N. lxvi 181, 182 (1875), portrait.
KEATINGE, Richard (2 son of Maurice Keatinge of Dublin, barrister). b. Dublin 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1813; K.C. 1835; queen’s serjeant Nov. 1842; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1843; judge of the prerogative court Aug. 1843; judge of the probate court Jany. 1858 to Oct. 1868; P.C. Ireland, Sep. 1843. d. 21 Merrion sq. Dublin 9 Feb. 1876. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 306–9; I.L.N. lxviii 190, 213 (1876), portrait.
KEATS, William. b. 1794 or 1795; entered navy 30 Sep. 1805; captain 27 March 1826; admiral on half pay 11 Jany. 1864. d. Porthill near Bideford 2 May 1874.
KEAYS, Robert Young (son of Robert Y. Keays of Walworth, Surrey). b. 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; chaplain of H.E.I.C. 1823; archdeacon and commissary of Bombay 1852 to death. d. on board the Africa, on his voyage to England 11 March 1855.
KEBBEL, Henry, b. 1772; ed. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., LL.B. 1810; V. of Wistow with C. of Newton Harcourt, and also P.C. of Kilby, Leicestershire, July 1813 to death; originator of the system of allotment grounds for agricultural labourers; author of A sermon recommending the establishment of a society for bettering the condition of the poor 1838. d. Kilby 13 July 1867.