KERR, Robert. b. 1806; entered navy 2 Dec. 1819, captain 1 Jany. 1850, retired R.A. 6 April 1866, retired admiral 21 March 1878. d. 14 Suffolk sq. Cheltenham 29 Oct. 1886.
KERR, Walter Montagu (3 son of lord Charles Lennox Kerr b. 1814, capt. 42 regt.) b. June 1852; made a journey from Cape of Good Hope by the Zambesi to Lake Nyassa 1885; left England intending to cross Africa from Zanzibar and to visit Emin Pasha 1887, when at Mombassa ready to start fell ill of fever; author of The far interior, a narrative of travel and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of Central Africa 2 vols. 1886. d. South of France 23 April 1888.
KERRICK, Richard Edward. Ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., 7 senior optime and B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, ordained 1830; F.S.A. 11 March 1830, gave to the society 3 portraits and a collection of 4000 coins, chiefly Roman 22 Nov. 1849. d. 13 Free school lane, Cambridge 13 May 1872.
KERRISON, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (only son of Matthias Kerrison 1742–1827). b. Hexney hall near Bungay 30 July 1776; cornet 6 dragoons 23 June 1796; lieut. col. 7 dragoons 4 April 1805 to 28 Sep. 1826; col. of 14 light dragoons 18 June 1830 to death; served in the Helder expedition 1799, in Spain, and at Waterloo; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 22 June 1815; baronet by patent dated 27 July 1821; K.C.H. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.H. 1831; K.C.B. 18 July 1840; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812–18; M.P. Northampton 1818–24; M.P. Eye 1824–52. m. 20 Oct. 1813 Mary Martha dau. of Alexander Ellice of Pittencreff, Fife. d. 13 Great Stanhope st. London 9 March 1853. I.L.N. xxii 227, 323 (1853); Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii 131 (1833), portrait of lady Kerrison.
KERRISON, Sir Edward Clarence, 2 Baronet (1 son of preceding). b. The Wick, Brighton 2 Jany. 1821; M.P. Eye 1852–66; M.P. East Suffolk 1866–67; steward of H.M. manor of Northstead, York; succeeded 9 March 1853; a great friend of the agricultural labourers; established the Thorndown reformatory; instrumental in erecting Albert memorial coll. Framlingham; took part in laying down Mellis and Eye railway; president of R. Agricultural soc. at Plymouth 1865; a good shot, a good coachman; master of Norfolk hounds 1869. d. Brome hall, Scole, Norfolk 12 July 1886. Baily’s Mag. xxiv 125–6 (1874), portrait; Public men of Ipswich (1875) 35–42.
KERRY, Elizabeth. Her husband died 179-; lived with her dau. at Needham Market, Suffolk; received many presents on her birthdays; living Oct. 1859 aged 105. I.L.N. xxxv 358 (1859), portrait.
KERSHAW, James (son of T. Kershaw a working man). b. Manchester 1795; clerk in firm of Lees, Millington & Cullender, cotton spinners, Manchester 1811, became a partner, afterwards head of firm of Kershaw, Lees and Sidebottom; set the Mersey mills at Stockport to work employing 1200 hands 1842; member of council of anti-corn law league 1838; instrumental in obtaining municipal franchise for Manchester 1838; mayor of Manchester 1842–43; M.P. Stockport 1847 to death. d. the Manor house, Streatham, Surrey 27 April 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 16 July 1864. I.L.N. xvi 213 (1850), portrait.
KERSHAW, John (3 son of William Kershaw, shoemaker). b. Lower Fold, Healey, parish of Rochdale 25 Aug. 1792; baptized 24 May 1809, preached his first sermon 9 Jany. 1814; minister of Hope st. Baptist chapel, Rochdale 1817 to death; the means of establishing chapels at Bacup and Goodshaw; celebrated his jubilee at Hope chapel 6 March 1867 when he was presented with £325; a well known preacher in London, Manchester, &c.; author of A protest against the doctrine that a child of God cannot backslide 1848. d. Rochdale 11 Jany. 1870. The Rochdale Observer 15 Jany. 1870 p. 4, 22 Jany. p. 5; Memorials, being the autobiography of J. Kershaw (1870).
KERSHAW, John. b. Liverpool 24 Dec. 1816; a member of Unitarian body to 1837; ordained a R.C. priest 1840, missioner at Neston, Cheshire 1843; priest at Barton-on-Irwell 1844 to death; domestic prelate to the Pope 1879 with title of Monseignor; canon and rural dean of diocese of Salford. d. All Saints’, Barton 31 May 1890. Tablet 7 June 1890 p. 904.
KERSLAKE, Thomas. b. Exeter, July 1812; second-hand bookseller with his brother-in-law Samuel Cornish in Barton alley, Bristol 1830–9, alone at Park st. 1839–70; he acquired a reputation as a bookseller that has been eclipsed only by B. Quaritch, his catalogues were literary curiosities; collected antiquarian and archæological books, many of which were destroyed in a fire 1860; author of The word ‘Metropolis.’ The ancient word Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Bristol and Fossil Taunton. Three essays. Bristol 1880; Traces of the ancient kingdom of Damnonia outside Cornwall in remains of Celtic hagiology 1878; Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England 1878. d. Wynfred, Clevedon 5 Jany. 1891. Index catalogue of the Somerset archæological society library, Taunton (1889) p. 99; N. and Q. 3 Ser. ix 193, 398 (1866); Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p. 53.