KENYON, John Robert (3 son of succeeding). b. 13 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, B.C.L. 1831, D.C.L. 1836; fellow of All Souls 1828; barrister M.T. May 1834; judge and assessor of chancellor’s court of univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1840 to Nov. 1859; recorder of Oswestry 1 June 1842 to death; Vinerian prof. of common law in univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1843 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1862; bencher of his inn 19 Nov. 1862 to death, treasurer 1874; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions March 1871. d. The Pradoe, Erdiston, West Felton, Shropshire 17 April 1880. Law Times, lxix 34 (1880).
KENYON, Thomas (youngest son of 1 baron Kenyon 1732–1802). b. 27 Sep. 1780; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1801; filazer, exigenter and clerk of the outlawries office in the Inner Temple 1807–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; chairman of court of quarter sessions, Shropshire 1830 or 1831 to 1850. d. The Pradoe, co. Salop 4 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 649–51 (1851).
KEOGH, William Nicholas (eld. son of William M. Keogh of Corkip, co. Roscommon, clerk of the crown for the city and co. of Kilkenny, d. July 1865). b. Gardiner st. Dublin 7 Dec. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., LL.D. 1866; called to bar in Ireland 1840, went the Connaught circuit; M.P. for Athlone Aug. 1847 to Feb. 1856; Q.C. 23 May 1850; solicitor gen. for Ireland, Dec. 1852 to March 1855, attorney gen. March 1855 to Feb. 1856; P.C. Ireland 1855; justice of the common pleas March 1856, of the common pleas division 1 Jany. 1878 to death; with Mr. Justice Fitzgerald tried the Fenian prisoners 1865; tried the Galway county election petition 1872 and henceforth was denounced by the Roman Catholics and went in fear of his life; author of Ireland under Lord de Grey 1844; Ireland imperialised; Milton’s prose, a lecture 1863; with M. J. Barry A treatise on the practice of the court of chancery in Ireland 1840. d. Bingen on the Rhine 30 Sep. 1878. bur. cemetery of R.C. ch. at Bonn 3 Oct. Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877) i 331–53; O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 255–60; Law mag. and law review, iv 62–72 (1878); Irish Law times, xii 498–500 (1878); I.L.N. xvi 261 (1850), portrait; Graphic, vi 90, 95 (1872), portrait.
KEON, Myles Gerald (only son of Myles Gerald Keon, barrister, d. 1824). b. Keonbrooke, co. Leitrim 20 Feb. 1821; ed. at Stonyhurst 8 years; served in French army in Algeria a short time; student at Gray’s Inn, admitted 11 Nov. 1840; edited Dolman’s Magazine, April to Nov. 1846; on the staff of the Morning Post 1847–58, went as its representative to St. Petersburgh 1850 and 1856; colonial secretary at Bermuda, March 1859 to death; author of The life of the Roman patrician Alexis 1847; a novel called Harding the Money-Spinner, in the London Journal 1852 published in 3 vols. 1879; Dion and the Sibyls, a romance of the first century 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. New York 1871. d. Bermuda 3 June 1875. Stonyhurst Mag. March and June 1886; Boucher de Perthes’ Voyage en Russie en 1856 (1859), passim.
KER, Alan. b. 1820; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; attorney general of Antigua 1851–54; chief justice of Nevis 1854–6; chief justice of Dominica 1856–61; puisne judge of supreme court of Jamaica 1861 to death; author of Remarks on the representative system as illustrated by the defeat of Mr. Macaulay at Edinburgh 1847. d. Kingston, Jamaica 20 March 1885.
KER, Charles Henry Bellenden (son of John Bellenden Ker, botanist 1765–1842). b. about 1785; barrister L.I. 28 June 1814; a member of the boundary commission 1830–2, of the public records commission, of the criminal and statute law commission 1833; head of the board to consider consolidation of statute law 1853 and of the royal commission on same subject 1854; suggested and prepared the Leases and Sales of settled estates act 1856 and Lord Cranworth’s act 1860; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852–60; recorder of Andover 1842 to July 1855; one of the first private growers of orchids; wrote a series of articles in the Gardeners’ Chronicle under the pseudonym ‘Dodman’; F.R.S. to 1831; lived at Cannes 1860 to death; author of The question of registry or no registry considered, with reference to the interests of landholders 1830; Shall we register our deeds? 1853. d. Cannes 2 Nov. 1871.
KER, David Stewart (only son of David Ker of Montalto, co. Down). b. 5 Nov. 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841; M.P. co. Down 1852–57; M.P. Downpatrick 1859–67. d. Crawfordsburn 8 Oct. 1878.
KER, John. b. farmhouse of Bield, parish of Tweedsmuir, Peebleshire 7 April 1819; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; entered divinity hall of united secession church 1838; minister of Clayport st. ch. Alnwick, Feb. 1845, of East Campbell st. ch. Glasgow 19 March 1851, removed to a new ch. in Sydney place 28 Nov. 1857; his health broke down May 1858, spent many winters abroad, resumed work 1872; D.D. Edin. 1869; professor of practical training in theological hall of his church 1876 to death; author of The psalms in history and biography 1886; Scottish nationality and other papers 1887; Lectures on the history of preaching 2 ed. 1888. d. Hermitage, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 4 Oct. 1886. United Presbyterian Mag. Nov. 1886 pp. 485–89 and Dec. pp. 534–40; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3rd Series (1851) 272–80.
KERFERD, George Briscoe (eld. son of Joseph Kerferd of Liverpool, merchant). b. Liverpool 1831; emigrated to Victoria 1852, a territorial magistrate 1856, carried on a large business in Beechwood, mayor 4 times; member for the Oven’s district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864 to Dec. 1885; minister of mines and vice pres. of board of lands and works 1866–68; called to bar in Victoria 12 Dec. 1867; solicitor general 10 June 1872 to April 1874, attorney general 2 May 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875 and 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877, premier 31 July 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875; a judge of supreme court of Victoria, Dec. 1885 to death; edited with Mr. Box, Digest of all decisions of supreme court of Victoria 1846–71. d. Sorrento, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1889.
KERFOOT, John Barrett. b. Dublin 1 March 1816; taken to U.S. America 1819; ordained protestant episcopal minister 1837; master of St. James’ hall, Maryland and then of the college of St. James 1842–64; president of Trinity coll.; first bishop of Pittsburg, consecrated 25 Jany. 1866; attended first and second conferences at Lambeth 1875, and the Old Catholic conference Bonn 1875; D.D. of Columbia coll. 1850, and of Trinity 1865; LLD. of Camb. 1867. d. Meyersdale, Pennsylvania 10 July 1881. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 524 (1887), portrait; H. G. Batterson’s Sketch book of American episcopate (1878) 219.