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Keily, Philip Barnard, brother of Gerald Barnard Keily (qv); b. 1 May 1909; adm. May 1922 (G); left Dec. 1922; 2nd Lieut. IA Jan. 1929; Lieut. Bombay Pioneers Mar. 1931; Capt. 9 Gurkha Rifles Jan. 1938; seconded South Waziristan Scouts July 1939; temp. Maj. Feb. 1943, Maj. and temp. Lieut.-Col. June 1944; served NW Frontier 1939-43, India and Burma 1943-5; retd as hon. Lieut.-Col. Dec. 1947; m. 7 Feb. 1948 Joan Olive, d. of John Staines of Bombay; d. 1963.

KELLY, ANDERSON LINDSAY, brother of Edward Festus Kelly (qv); b. 27 Feb 1858; adm. 8 Jun 1871 (G); left Dec 1875; 2nd Lieut., 24th Foot 26 Mar 1879; Lieut., South Wales Borderers 16 Aug 1880; 20th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 15 Nov 1884; Capt., 7th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 2 Oct 1889; retd. (when ?); Maj., North Somerset Yeomanry 1904-12, Hon. Lieut. -Col. 1908; served on Sudan expedition 1888-9; of Woolston House, North Cadbury, Somerset; JP Somerset 1902; m. 1888 Elsie Nevine, dau. of Charles Perkins, Long Island, New York, USA; d. 7 Oct 1920.

KELLY, EDWARD FESTUS, eldest son of Edward Robert Kelly, Upper Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, printer and publisher, and Harriott, dau. of Anderson Radford, Cambridge; b. 28 Jan 1854; adm. 26 Jan 1867 (G); Min. Can. 1869; left May 1869; chairman, Kelly’s Directories Ltd., London; of Northerwood Park, Lyndhurst, Hampshire; JP Hampshire 1910; m. 1879 Constance, dau. of Maj. Horatio Edinborough; d. 23 Jun 1939.

Kemp, Athole Stephen Horsford, son of Sir Joseph Horsford Kemp KBE KC LLD, Chief Justice of Hong Kong, and Mary, d. of Peter Stuart; b. 21 Oct. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left July 1936; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1936, BA 1941, MA 1943; commissioned RA 1939, seconded Malayan Civil Service 1940; p.o.w. Singapore, Thailand-Burma Railway 1942-5; Malayan Civil Service 1946-64, dep. Perm. Sec. to the Malaysian Cabinet 1957-64; MBE 1951, OBE 1958; Secretary­ General Royal Commonwealth Society 1967-83; LVO 1983; m. 3 Aug. 1940 Marjorie Alison Bostock, lecturer and teacher, d. of Geoffrey Rowley Bostock, chartered accountant; d. 30 Mar. 1995.

Kennedy, John Stodart, son of James John Stodart Kennedy, consulting engineer, of Hampstead, and Edith Roberts Lammers of Titusville, Pa., USA; b. 19 May 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (G); left July 1929; Univ. Coll. Lond., BSc 1933, MSc 1937, DSc 1956; Univ. of Birming­ham, PhD 1938; an entomologist specialising in locusts, mosquitoes and greenfly; Col. Service Sudan 1936-7, Lond. Sch. of Hygiene & Trop. Med. 1937-8, Rockefeller Foundn Albania 1938-9, Middle East, India and East Africa 1942-4; Min. of Supply 1944-5; Agric. Res. Council Cambridge 1946-67; Imp. Coll. Lond. 1967-83; Oxf. Univ. Zoology Dept. 1983-; FRS 1965; Fellow Wolfson Coll. Camb. 1966, UCL 1967, ICL 1982; hon. Prof. of Animal Behaviour Univ. of Lond. 1967; Pres. Roy. Entomological Soc. 1967-9, Wigglesworth Medal 1985; Gold Medal Linnaean Soc. 1984; m. 1st 20 Nov. 1936 Dorothy Violet, d. of Walter Bartholomew of Brighton; 2nd 1950 Claude Jacqueline Bloch Dr-ès-Sc, marine zoologist, d. of Gaston Raphael of Paris; d. 31 Mar. 1993.

Kennedy, Samuel Patrick Lithgow, son of Samuel David Kennedy (qv); b. 20 Apr. 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (G); left Apr. 1944; Trin. Coll. Camb., elected 1944, matric. 1947, BA 1949, MA 1983; an actuary, AIA 1952, FIA 1954; Sun Alliance and Lond. Assurance 1965, asst. gen. man. 1971; dir. Securitas-Gilde Lebensversicherung AG 1979, dep. chmn. 1982-6; visiting Prof. in Actuarial Science City Univ. 1985, dir. Centre for Insurance & Investment 1985-8; Vice-Pres. Inst. of Actuaries 1982-5; dep. sec. -gen. Geneva Assn. 1987-; retd.; m. 20 Apr. 1957 Caris Mary, d. of Edward Parry Evans, solicitor, of Pinner, Middlesex; d. 20 Aug. 2015.

KEPPEL, FREDERICK, eldest son of Hon. Frederick Keppel (adm. 1737, qv); b. 12 Nov 1762; adm. 23 Mar 1770 (G); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Dec 1778, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1778 – void 9 Dec 1782; Ensign, unattached 20 May 1780; 1st Foot 31 May 1780; Capt., 28 Feb 1787; 46th Foot 31 May 1787; Lieut. -Col., 28 Mar 1794; 49th Foot, 1 Sep 1795; of Lexham Hall, Norfolk; m. 3 Aug 1796 Louisa, sister of Henry Clive (qv); d. 12 Apr 1830.

KEPPEL, GEORGE THOMAS, 6TH EARL OF ALBEMARLE, third son of William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle PC, Master of the Horse, Whig politician, and his first wife Hon. Elizabeth Southwell, sister of Edward Southwell-Clifford, 18th Baron De Clifford (qv); b. 13 Jun 1799; adm. 13 Mar 1808 (G); expelled for getting out of Grants after lockers and going to the theatre 20 Mar 1815; Ensign, 14th Foot 4 Apr 1815; 22nd Foot 5 Feb 1818; Lieut., 24th Foot 25 May 1820; 20th Foot 27 Nov 1821; Capt., 62nd Foot 17 Feb 1825; Maj., unattached 20 Mar 1827; Lieut. -Col., 23 Nov 1841; Col. in the Army 20 Jun 1854; Maj. -Gen., 26 Oct 1858; Lieut. -Gen., 31 Mar 1866; Gen., 7 Feb 1874; served at battle of Waterloo; ADC to Marquis of Hastings, Governor-Gen. India, 1821-3; MP (Whig) Norfolk East 1832-4, Lymington 1847-50; Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria 1838-41; Private Secretary to Lord John Russell (qv) when Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury Jul 1846 – Jul 1847; JP Norfolk, DL 1859; High Sheriff, co. Leitrim 1838; succeded brother as 6th Earl of Albemarle 15 Mar 1841; took Whig/Liberal whip in House of Lords to 1886, afterwards Liberal Unionist; Busby Trustee 26 May 1854; author, Fifty Years of My Life, 1876, in which he refers to his school life and schoolfellows; m. 4 Aug 1831 Susan, third dau. of Sir Coutts Trotter, Bart.; d. 21 Feb 1891. DNB.