KEMP, James. b. Edinburgh 1831; parochial schoolmaster in Scotland; head master of St. Andrew’s sch. Hong Kong; editor and proprietor of China Mail and of the Hong Kong Evening Mail; editor and proprietor of India Mail; wrote a series of 60 papers entitled Voices from the Verandah, treating of Anglo-Chinese life; author of A rock ahead in China. d. 17 Nov. 1865. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 132–4.
KEMPLAY, James (youngest son of Richard Kemplay of Leeds). b. Leeds 1810; ed. at Leeds gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 3rd wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; special pleader; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1852; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872, bencher of his inn 29 Jany. 1874; author of Proposed plan for dealing with the statute law 1855. d. 48 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 4 June 1882.
KEMPSTER, Francis Greetham. b. 21 July 1821; ensign 6 Madras N.I. 2 Feb. 1838, captain 22 Aug. 1853; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 5 Oct. 1863; brigadier general Madras 27 June 1876 to 8 Sep. 1880; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. Tiptree hall, Kelvedon 13 Jany. 1887.
KEMPT, Sir James (son of Gavin Kempt of Southampton and Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1765; ensign 101 foot 31 March 1783, lieut. 1784, regiment disbanded April 1785; helped to raise 113 foot in Ireland, captain 30 May 1794, major 18 Sep. 1794, regiment was reduced 1795; served in Holland and in campaign in Egypt 1801; lieut. col. 81 foot 23 July 1803 to 4 Nov. 1813; the light brigade under his command bore the brunt of battle of Maida 2 July 1806; col.-commandant 60 foot 1813–18; commanded a brigade of light division at Vera, Nivelle, Nive, Orthez and Toulouse 1813–14; lieut. governor of Fort William, Inverness 10 Oct. 1812 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.H. 1816; col. of 3 West India foot 1818–19, of 81 foot 1819–29, of 40 foot 1829–34, of 2 foot 1834–46 and of 1 foot 1846 to death; governor of Nova Scotia 20 Oct. 1819 to 8 Jany. 1829; governor general of Canada 10 July 1828 to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C. 8 Dec. 1830; master general of the ordnance 1830 to 1834; general 23 Nov. 1841. d. 32 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 20 Dec. 1854.
KENAH, Sir Thomas (son of T. Kenah of Bridgefields, co. Cork). b. 1782; ensign 5 foot 14 Aug. 1799; major 58 foot 5 Nov. 1812 to 3 April 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Holland 1790, in Egypt 1801, in Sicily 1808–12, at siege of Genoa 1814; col. 63 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death, general 26 Dec. 1859; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; gold medal from the Grand Seignior for the Egyptian campaign. d. 24 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 26 March 1868.
KENDALL, Charles. b. Bishop Norton, Lincolnshire 19 Feb. 1818; a cobbler at Ashby, a shoemaker at Burringham; primitive methodist minister at Halifax 1839 and successively at 18 other places including Leeds and Hull; president of the conference at Hull 1881; helped to edit 2 volumes of the Primitive Pulpit; author of The Monitor 1852; The Christian minister in earnest, or the life of Atkinson Smith 1854; Hindrances to a revival of religion; How to promote a revival of religion; Little Willie; God’s Hand in the storm; The life of the rev. W. Sanderson; How to live in the street called Straight. d. Hilda st. Hull 5 May 1882. Primitive Methodist Mag. (1882) 491–6.
KENDALL, Henry Clarence (son of Basil Kendall). b. Ulladulla near Shoalhaven, New South Wales 18 April 1841; went to sea 1856, spent 2 years in the South Sea islands; clerk to James Lionel Michael, solicitor and author, Sydney 1860; contributed to Empire and Herald newspapers 1865, clerk in lands department, N.S.W. 1863, then in colonial secretary’s office, resigned 1869; journalist Melbourne 1869–73; inspector of forests, N.S.W.; author of Poems and songs 1862, which he suppressed in 1865; At Long Bay, Euroclydon, poems. d. at the house of the Messrs. Fagan Bros., Redfern near Sydney 1 Aug. 1882. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales (1866) pp. 192–206; Sladen’s Australian poets (1888) p. 280; H. Kendall’s Poems (1886), memoir pp. xi–xvi.
KENDALL, Joseph. Jockey; won the Chester cup on Nancy 1851 when he weighed only 4 st. 12 lb.; won the Liverpool Grand National on Jealously 1861; one of the finest horsemen ever seen. d. 21 March 1892.
KENDALL, Nicholas (1 son of rev. Charles Kendall, V. of Talland, d. 1806). b. Tredethy, St. Mabyn 22 Dec. 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; sheriff of Cornwall 1847; M.P. East Cornwall 1852–68; received a piece of plate and £1100 for his services to county of Cornwall 18 Feb. 1869; police magistrate of city and garrison of Gibraltar 30 Dec. 1868 to Sep. 1875, an attempt made to assassinate him March 1873. d. Pelynt near Lostwithiel 8 June 1878.
KENDALL, William. b. Padstow 1803; in employment of Shepherd and Gain, woollen drapers, Exeter; a linen draper Queen st. Exeter; partner in firm of Shepherd, Kendall and Tucker, woollen drapers, Exeter 1834, made a fortune and retired; mayor of Exeter 1862 when he contributed to the cost of the Albert memorial museum; V.P. of Devonshire Assoc. at Exeter meeting 1862; instrumental in building Wonford asylum 1869; fell down stairs and broke his thigh 25 March, d. 6 Summerland, Heavitree road, Exeter 29 March 1878. Trans. Devonshire Assoc. x 56–7 (1878).