KELLY, Charles, stage name of Charles Clavering Wardell (son of rev. Henry Wardell, R. of Winlaton, Durham). b. Newcastle 1839; made first public appearance at T.R. Hull as Montano in Othello 1868; played in Halliday’s The great city, at Surrey theatre 1869, and in Tom Taylor’s Arkwright’s Wife as Richard Arkwright, at Globe theatre 6 Oct. 1873; acted Samuel Brown in New Men and Old Acres, Court theatre 2 Dec. 1875 which was played 250 times; played Darnley in Lord Lytton’s House of Darnley, at Court theatre 6 Oct. 1877, and Robert L’Estrange in Bondage, Opera Comique 31 March 1883; his characteristic was his ability to indicate strong emotion without obtrusive display; made his final appearance at a complimentary benefit given to him at Prince’s theatre 16 July 1883. (m. at St. Phillip’s ch. South Kensington 21 Nov. 1877 Ellen Terry dau. of Benjamin Terry); Kelly’s first wife Anne Maria d. 7 Nov. 1875. He d. of apoplexy 27 Bedford place, London 17 April 1885. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 229–31.
KELLY, David. b. Manchester 1821; in employment of George Simms, bookseller, Exchange st. Manchester (the founder of firm of Simms and Dinham) till 1851; bookseller in partnership with Edwin Slater 1851 and then on his own account in Market st.; became acquainted with Edwin Waugh 1852 and was instrumental in the publication of Waugh’s Lancashire sketches 1855; published many of Waughs’ poems on cards 1856 etc. which had immense circulation; furnished some information to Procter’s Memorials of Manchester streets 1874. d. Brunswick st. Stretford near Manchester 2 Nov. 1891.
KELLY, Dennis (eld. son of James Kelly). b. 1804 or 1805; ed. at Dundalk and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825; C. of Crewe to 1832; V. of Killyon and Kilronan 1832–4; C. of St. John’s, Chatham 1834–6; C. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1836–8; P.C. of Trinity ch. Gough sq. Fleet st. London on its consecration June 1838 to death; contributed 250 essays to Church of England Magazine; author of Practical Sermons 1836, 2 ed. 1837; Sabbath evening readings, 1st series 1835, 22 ed. 1845, 2nd series 1842–3, the two series complete 1 vol. 1853; Self inspection 1845; Characters 1846; Neophilus or moral reflections 1846. d. 5 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 14 Nov. 1866. D. Kelly’s Posthumous Sermons (1867), memoir pp. vii–xv.
KELLY, Edward (eld. son of John Kelly of Belfast, afterwards a convict in Tasmania, who d. Victoria 1865). b. Victoria 1854; imprisoned 3 years for horse-stealing; shot a constable at his house near Greta, April 1878; bushranger in Australia with his brothers James and Daniel and two men called Byrne and Hart from 1878 to death, Victoria and New South Wales governments jointly offered a reward of £8000 for their apprehension; robbed the bank of Euroa, Victoria of £3000, 11 Dec. 1878; held the town of Jerilderie, New South Wales for 2 days and robbed the bank of about £700, Feb. 1879; they wore iron plates weighing nearly 100 lb. each, they were killed near Beechworth 27 June 1880 except Edward Kelly who was tried at Beechworth, convicted Oct. 1880 and hanged there 11 Nov. F. A. Hare’s Last of the Bushrangers (1891), portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 252 (1880), portrait; Graphic, xxii 225 (1880), portrait.
KELLY, Edward. b. 26 April 1836; entered navy 1850; first lieut. of Bombay 67 guns, destroyed by fire off Montevideo 14 Dec. 1864; captain 22 Oct. 1870; commanded Achilles during Egyptian war 1882; A.D.C. to the Queen 1885–7; captain superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1 Jany. 1886 to 10 June 1887; R.A. 10 June 1887; admiral superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1 Nov. 1887 to death. d. of influenza at Admiralty house, Chatham dockyard 17 Jany. 1892. bur. Rochester cathedral cemetery.
KELLY, Sir Fitzroy Edward (son of Robert Hawke Kelly, captain R.N.) b. London 9 Oct. 1796; practised as special pleader; barrister L.I. 7 May 1824; went Norfolk circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834, bencher of his inn 1838–66; contested Hythe 1830, Ipswich 1832 and 1841, and Lyme Regis 1847; M.P. for Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835 to June 1835 when unseated on petition; contested Ipswich 27 July 1837, seated on petition 26 Feb. 1838 and sat for it until 1841; M.P. for Cambridge borough 1843–1847, M.P. East Suffolk 1852–1866; standing counsel to Bank of England, May 1845; solicitor general 29 June 1845 to 2 July 1846 and 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1845; attorney general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; serjeant at law 16 July 1866, admitted 2 Nov. 1866; lord chief baron of court of exchequer 16 July 1866 to Nov. 1875 when he became a judge of supreme court of judicature but retained his former title by act of parliament; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. d. Bedford hotel, Brighton 17 Sep. 1880. bur. Highgate cemet. 22 Sep. A generation of Judges. By Their Reporter (1886) 38–53; Public men of Ipswich (1875) 71–8; Illust. news of the world, vol. i (1858), portrait; I.L.N. vii 48 (1845) portrait, lxxvii 324 (1880) portrait.
Note.—At one time his income at the bar amounted to £25,000 a year, a sum scarcely ever equalled by an advocate of late years, except by Lord Selborne when Roundell Palmer. He made his famous defence of John Tawell the Quaker murderer, at Aylesbury assizes March 1845, which gained him sobriquet of ‘Apple pip Kelly,’ this was the first occasion on which the telegraph was called in to assist in securing a murderer. See Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials (1883) 16–49.
KELLY, Frances Maria (dau. of Mark Kelly d. Canterbury 4 April 1833). b. Brighton 15 Dec. 1790; appeared at Drury Lane in opera of Bluebeard 16 Jany. 1798; chorister Drury Lane 1799; took many of Madame Storace’s characters and afterwards those of Mrs. Jordan, at Drury Lane and the Italian opera 1800–1806; learnt Italian, French and Latin; co-operated with Edmund Kean at Drury Lane 1812 and frequently played Ophelia to his Hamlet; while acting in Modern Antiques at Covent Garden 17 Feb. 1816 George Barnett fired a pistol at her; made final appearance at Drury Lane 8 June 1835; besides impersonating many of Shakespeare’s heroines, she played all the leading comedy characters in the English drama, and was superior in melodrama to all other actresses; lessee of New Strand theatre where she gave a monologue entertainment Feb. to Oct. 1833 with which she afterwards travelled in the provinces; built a theatre at back of 73 Dean st. Soho for a dramatic school, opened 25 March 1840 and called Miss Kelly’s theatre, where she gave occasional dramatic performances; gave Shakespeare readings in the country; her theatre seized by the landlord 1849, she lost £16,000. d. Ross cottage, Feltham, Middlesex 6 Dec. 1882. bur. Brompton cemetery 16 Dec. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, i 215–24 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, ii 223–34 (1844); Illust. sp. and dr. news, xii 414 (1880), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor, v 203–206 (1814), portrait, viii 83–86 (1816), portrait; I.L.N. viii 9 (1846), portrait, lxxxi 661 (1882), portrait.
Note.—Her sister Lydia Eliza Kelly an actress b. London 2 June 1795, d. in U.S. of America before 1882. Theatrical Inquisitor, vi 323 (1815), portrait; Ireland’s Records, i 433 (1866).
KELLY, Francis (son of Edward Kelly). b. Drumragh, co. Tyrone 31 July 1813; ed. at Maynooth 1835; ordained priest 13 June 1840; C. of Drumragh 1840–6; professor in the diocesan seminary, Derry, July 1846; C. of Strabane; C. of Culdaff; parish priest of Upper Fahan to 1849; D.D.; bishop of Derry 8 Aug. 1849 to death, consecrated in Derry 21 Oct. 1849; built Derry cath. at cost of £40,000. d. St. Eugene’s, Derry 1 Sep. 1889. The Derry Journal 2, 4, 6 Sep. 1889.