KESSLER, Ferdinand Mozart. b. 1849; subconductor of music North Woolwich gardens; musical director and conductor at Brighton theatre 1872 to death; composer of I have wandered by the crystal stream, ballad 1877; The château Florence, polka 1879; Love’s impulse, a song 1879; The outpost, a march for the pianoforte 1884. d. Brighton 4 June 1888.
KESSON, John. b. Aberdeen; private sec. to Joseph Hume, M.P.; a transcriber on the catalogue of the British Museum 1838, retired 1857; a French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic scholar; contributed to the Critic, Literary Gazette and New Quarterly Review, and was editor of last numbers of each of these publications in 1863, 1862 and 1862; resided in Paris as a newspaper correspondent 1857 &c.; employed at South Kensington museum in preparing the Universal catalogue of books on art 1869; compiled A catalogue of the Dyce books in the South Kensington museum 1875; editor of Travels in Scotland, by J. G. Kohl, a translation 1844; The childhood of king Erik Menved, by S. B. Ingemann, a translation 1846; author of The cross and the dragon, or the fortunes of christianity in China 1854; with R. T. Scott, A complete guide to the British museum 1843. d. 1876. Cowtan’s Memories of British museum (1872) 311–16.
KESTEVEN, John Trollope, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir John Trollope 6 baronet 1766–1820). b. Casewick house, Stamford 8 May 1800; ed. at Eton; cornet 10 hussars 10 July 1817; succeeded his father 28 April 1820; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1825; chairman of Lincolnshire quarter sessions; M.P. South Lincolnshire 1841–68; president of poor law board for England 3 March 1852 to 31 Dec. 1852; P.C. 5 March 1852; master of Cottesmore hounds 1855–69; created baron Kesteven of Casewick, co. Lincoln 15 April 1868. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 17 Dec. 1874. I.L.N. xxi 459 (1852), portrait, lxvi 22, 115 (1875).
KETCHEN, James. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1806, colonel 26 March 1844 to death; L.G. 12 Oct. 1857. d. Kingillie, Nairn 8 June 1862.
KETTLE, John Lucena Ross (eld. son of John Kettle of Overseale, co. Leicester). b. Overseale 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury and Ex. coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.C.L. 1838; exhibitioner of Lincoln coll. 1831–6, fellow 1836 to death; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1840; practised as conveyancer in New square; author of Letter to rev. James Thompson on proceedings at Lincoln college on election of rector 1851; Letter to the rev. T. E. Espin on close fellowships at Oxford 1851. d. Old Government house, Guernsey 27 Jany. 1872. Law Times, lii 279, 301, 375 (1872).
KETTLE, Robert (son of a farmer). b. in village of Kintillo at foot of the Ochill hills, Forfar 18 Dec. 1761; a weaver at Perth; in W. Kelly & Co.’s cotton mill, Glasgow 1815–29; president of Glasgow abstinence soc. 1831–46; president of Scottish temperance union 1838; editor Scottish Temperance journal 1 Jany. 1839; left the Presbyterian ch. and joined the Baptists 1834; took part in formation of Evangelical Alliance 1845; president of Scottish Temperance league 1848; author of Compulsoryism and endowments exposed. Glasgow 1837. d. Glasgow 23 March 1852. Temperance memorials of Robert Kettle (1854), memoir pp. ix–xcvi; S. Couling’s History of temperance movement (1862) 136, 318–19.
KEY, Sir Astley Cooper (2 son of Charles Aston Key, surgeon 1793–1849). b. 18 Jany. 1821; entered navy 2 Aug. 1835; captain 11 Oct. 1850; commanded the Amphion frigate in the Baltic 1854–5; commanded a battalion of naval brigade at capture of Canton 28–9 Dec. 1857, arrested Yeh the Chinese governor Jany. 1858; member of royal commission on national defence 1858–60; captain of the Excellent and superintendent of royal naval college 1863–6; R.A. 20 Nov. 1866; director general of naval ordnance 1866–9; superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 1869–70 and of Malta dockyard 1870–72; planned Royal naval college, Greenwich, opened Feb. 1873, pres. Dec. 1872 to Jany. 1876; commander-in-chief on North American and West Indian station Dec. 1875 to May 1878; admiral 21 March 1878, retired 18 Jany. 1886; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 1878–86; first naval lord of the admiralty 1879–85; granted special pension of £500 a year 1885; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B. 24 Nov. 1882; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; D.C.L. Oxf. 1880; author of A narrative of the recovery of H.M.S. Gorgon stranded in the bay of Monte Video 10 May 1844. 1847. d. Laggan house, North Town, Maidenhead 3 March 1888, portrait in library of royal naval college 1876. Proc. of Royal Soc. xliii pp. ix–xi (1888).
KEY, George William. b. 6 Feb. 1812; cornet 16 lancers 5 July 1831; lieut. 15 hussars 1834, lieut. col. 9 Feb. 1847 to 23 Sep. 1859 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general cavalry brigade, Curragh 1861–6; col. of 11 hussars 29 March 1868, and 15 hussars 19 Nov. 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. the Manor house, Coates near Cirencester 20 Aug. 1883.
KEY, Henry Cooper (eld. son of Charles Aston Key, surgeon 1793–1849). b. London 1819; ed. at private schools and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; R. of Stretton, Sugwas, Hereford 1846 to death; invented method of grinding glass mirrors for Newtonian reflectors; discovered remarkable depression in the moon’s surface which has been named after him; F.R.A.S. 9 Nov. 1860. d. Stretton rectory 25 Dec. 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xl 199 (1880).
KEY, Sir John (eld. son of John Key of Denmark hill, Surrey, d. 28 Aug. 1821). b. 16 Aug. 1794; wholesale stationer 97 and 103 Newgate st. London; alderman for Langbourn ward 8 April 1823, and for Bridge without 1851 to 7 June 1853 when he resigned; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1824; master of Stationers’ Co. 1830; lord mayor 1830 and 1831; baronet by patent dated 17 Aug. 1831; chamberlain of city of London 30 May 1853 to death; M.P. city of London 12 Dec. 1832 to Aug. 1833. d. Streatham, Surrey 15 July 1858. London’s Roll of fame (1884) 209, portrait.