KELTY, Mary Ann (dau. of an Irish surgeon who d. Cambridge 1822). b. Cambridge 1789; converted under Charles Simeon’s preaching at Cambridge; lived at 5 Hanover st. Rye lane, Peckham, London 1832 to death; author of The Favourite of Nature 1821 an anonymous novel, translated into French under title of Eliza Rivers 1823; Early days in the Society of Friends 1840; Reminiscences of thought and feeling 1852; The real and the beau ideal 1860; The solace of a solitaire 1869; the majority of her works simply bear her initials M.A.K. d. 5 Hanover st. Peckham 8 Jany. 1873.
KELYNACK, William (3 child of Nicholas Kelynack of Newlyn near Penzance, drowned 21 Jany. 1854). b. Newlyn 22 May 1832; ed. at Penzance; Wesleyan M. minister 1854 when he went as a missionary to New South Wales; representative of N.S.W. conference at the conference at Bristol 1876; D.D. of Univ. of New Orleans 1877; president of N.S.W. Wesleyan conference 1880; sec. of
Wesleyan missions 1882; president of Newington coll. Sydney; a great orator, called The silver trumpet of Australia; with others edited The Christian advocate and Wesleyan record. Sydney 187-. d. Sydney, Oct. 1891.
KEMBLE, Adelaide (younger dau. of the succeeding). b. Covent Garden chambers, London 1814; first appeared as a soprano singer at Concert of ancient music 13 May 1835; sang at Prague and Paris 1837–8; first appeared in opera at the Fenice theatre, Venice as Norma; sang at Covent Garden and in the provinces 1841–2, her chief characters being Norma, Susanna and Amina; last appeared on the stage 23 Dec. 1842; one of the best English singers of the century. (m. 1843 Edward John Sartoris of Warnford park, Hants., b. 1817, M.P. for Carmarthen 1868–74); composed a few vocal pieces; author of A week in a French country house 1867; Medusa and other tales 1868, reprinted as Past Hours 2 vols. 1880. d. Warsash house, Warsash, Hampshire 4 Aug. 1879. Wilson’s Our Actresses, ii 253–68 (1844), portrait; Cruikshank’s Omnibus (1842) 238, portrait; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 402–5.
KEMBLE, Charles (4 son of Roger Kemble 1721–1802, theatrical manager). b. Brecknock, South Wales 25 Nov. 1775; ed. at R.C. coll. Douay 3 years; clerk in general post office, London; made his début at Sheffield as Orlando, in As you like it 1792; appeared at Drury Lane as Malcolm 21 April 1794; during 30 years he is said to have steadily improved; played at Haymarket in summer season; the original of Henry Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune 28 Feb. 1794, and of Alonzo in Pizarro 24 May 1799; joined his brother at Covent Garden 1803; the original Knight of Snowdon in the Lady of the Lake 5 Feb. 1811; acted in Brussels, Calais and Boulogne 1813–15; manager of Covent Garden 1822–32; assaulted C. M. Westmacott editor of the Age, for remarks made on his dau. Fanny Kemble 1830; visited America with his dau. 1832–34; made his last appearance on the stage 10 April 1840; examiner of plays 17 Oct. 1836 to 22 Feb. 1840; gave Shakespearean readings at Willis’ rooms 1844–45. (m. 2 July 1806 Maria Theresa dau. of George De Camp, she was b. Vienna 17 Jany. 1774, dancer and actress, d. Chertsey 3 Sep. 1838); entertained by the Garrick club 10 Jany. 1837; his best characters were Romeo, Hamlet and Mercutio; author of The wanderer or the rights of hospitality, a drama 1808; Plot or counterplot or the portrait of Michael Cervantes, a farce 1808; The point of honour, a play 1800; C. Kemble’s Shakespeare readings 1870; Shakespeare for schools, as abridged by C. Kemble 1883. d. Saville row, London 12 Nov. 1854. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, iii 1–14 (1825), portrait; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 27–30; Bentley’s Miscellany, xxxvi 623–30 (1854); Fraser’s Mag. Dec. 1854 pp. 607–617; P. Fitzgerald’s The Kembles, i 225, 310, ii 386–9 (1871); I.L.N. i 364 (1842), portrait, xxv 514–6 (1854).
KEMBLE, Charles (only son of Charles Adams Kemble of Clapham common, Surrey d. 1819). b. 1819; ed. Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1842–44; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1844–59; Sunday evening lecturer at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1848–51; R. of Bath abbey ch. 1859 to death; preb. of Wells cath. 1866; member of Bath sch. board 31 Jany. 1871, chairman thereof; author of The mysteries of the gospel 1853; Farewell sermons preached at St. Michael’s church, Stockwell 1859; Suggestive hints on parochial machinery 1859, 3 ed. 1865; Memorials of a closed ministry, a selection of sermons 3 vols. 1875; edited Church psalmody, a selection of psalm and hymn tunes 1840; A selection of psalms and hymns by S. S. Wesley, arranged by C. Kemp 1864. d. Vellore, Bath 18 Nov. 1874.
KEMBLE, Henry (son of Edward Kemble, member of corporation of London). b. 1787; M.P. for East Surrey 3 Aug. 1837 to 23 July 1847. d. Grove hill, Camberwell, London 18 May 1857.
KEMBLE, John Mitchell (eld. son of Charles Kemble 1775–1854). b. London 2 April 1807; ed. by Dr. C. Richardson the philologist at Clapham, at Bury St. Edmunds gr. sch. and at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; studied at the Inner Temple; studied in Germany under Jacob Grimm; lectured at Cambridge on the Anglo-Saxon language and literature 1834; editor of British and Foreign Rev. 1835–44; examiner of stage plays 24 Feb. 1840 to death; lived in Hanover and made archæological excavations in Lüneburg for the government July 1849 to May 1855, his official duties in England being taken by W. B. Donne; went to Dublin to collect Keltic and Roman antiquities for Art treasures exhibition, Manchester, Feb. 1857; editor of The Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf, edited with a glossary and preface 1833; Codex diplomaticus ævi Saxonici opera J. M. K. English Historical Soc. 6 vols. 1839–48; The poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with a translation. Aelfric Soc. 1843; Certaine considerations upon the government of England. Camden Soc. 1849; State papers and correspondence illustrative of the state of Europe from the revolution to the accession of the house of Hanover 1857; author of The Saxons in England. A history of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest 2 vols. 1849, new ed. 2 vols. 1876. d. Gresham hotel, 21 Upper Sackville st. Dublin 26 March 1857. bur. St. Jerome cemet. Fraser’s Mag. May 1857 pp. 612–18; G.M. ii 620–21 (1857).
KEMEYS-TYNTE, Charles John (only son of Charles Kemeys-Tynte of Halswell house, Bridgewater, Somerset). b. Halswell house 9 April 1800; ed. at Eton; M.P. for West Somerset 1832–37; contested West Somerset 1837; M.P. for Bridgewater 1847–65; col. of Royal Glamorgan militia 1848–62; claimed the barony of Wharton; author of Sketch of the French revolution of 1830. d. Balnageith, Torquay 16 Sep. 1882.
KEMM, William Henry. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 62 Bengal N.I. 11 Nov. 1837; col. 25 Bengal N.I. 1849 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 25 May 1859 aged 76.