Kermode, Alfred Cotterill, son of the Rev. Sidney Alfred Pizey Kermode, by Lucy, daughter of Charles Lynam, of Stoke-on-Trent; b. Jan. 30, 1897; adm. as K.S. Sept. 22, 1910; left Nov. 5, 1910; went to Oundle; Clare Coll. Cambridge; B.A. 1921; M.A. 1944; Flight Sub-Lieut. R.N.A.S. 1916; Lieut. R.A.F. 1918; civilian education offr. R.A.F. 1923-39; Sqdn. Ldr. June 1, 1942; Group Capt. (Educational Branch) R.A.F. July 1, 1948; Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Educational Services Air Ministry 1955; A.D.C. to the Queen May 5, 1953; O.B.E. Jan. 1, 1944; C.B.E. Jan 1, 1956; author of Mechanics of Flight (1932), Flight without Formulae (1939), The Aeroplane Structure (1939); m. Sept. 6, 1946, Rose Price Nowell, nee Roberts, daughter of O.P. Roberts, civil servant, of Liverpool; d. 23 Feb. 1973.
KIDD, JOHN, brother of William Holland Kidd (qv); b. 10 Sep 1775; adm. 16 Jan 1786; KS (Capt. ) 1789; Capt. of the School 1792; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1793 (“the golden election”), matr. 30 May 1793, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1793 – Nov 1802, Faculty Student 23 Nov 1802 – void by marriage 24 Jun 1805; BA 1797; MA 1800; MB 1801; MD 1801; medical student, Guy’s Hospital 1797-1801; Aldrich Professor of Chemistry 1803-22; Physician to Radcliffe Infirmary 1808-26; Dr. Lee’s Reader in Anatomy, Christ Church 1816; Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, from 1822; Radcliffe Librarian from 1834; FRCP 16 Mar 1818, Harveian Orator 1836; FRS 28 Mar 1822; author, On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, 1833, and other works; m. ---, dau. of Rev. Servington Savery, Chaplain, St. Thomas’s Hospital, London; d. 17 Sep 1851. DNB.
KIDMAN, RALPH; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; contributor to the collection of verses written by the QSS on the death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil 1597 (Salisbury MSS, Hatfield House).
Kinchin Smith, Michael, son of Francis John Kinchin Smith, lecturer in Classics, Univ. of London, and Dione Jean Elizabeth, d. of Sir Francis Henry May GCMG, Governor of Hong Kong, of Clare Priory, Suffolk; b. 8 May 1921; adm. Jan. 1935 (KS); left July 1939; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1939, Pres. Oxford Union 1941, BA 1945 (1st class hons Mod. Hist. 1941), MA 1947; Coldstream Guards 1942-5 (Capt.), despatches (Italy) Nov. 1945; ICI Ltd 1947-50; BBC 1950-78, Controller Staff Admin. 1967-76; lay assistant to Archbishop of Canterbury 1979-84; appointments secretary to Archbishops of Canterbury and York and Sec. of Crown Appointments Commission 1984-7; chairman exec. council RIPA 1975-7; CIPM 1980; OBE Jan. 1987; m. 20 Sept. 1947 Rachel Frances, d. of Rt Hon. Sir Henry Willink Bt PC MC QC DCL, Master of Magdalene Coll. Cambridge; d. 2002
KING, ERASMUS, son of Erasmus King, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, and Elizabeth ---; b. 13 Jan 1744; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1758; at Charterhouse Sch. 1758-61; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Apr 1761; BA 1765; ordained; Vicar of Upper and Lower Guiting, Gloucs., from 1769; m. (by 1771) Mary --- (IGI); d. 1 Mar 1777 (M. I. Temple Guiting, Gloucs. ).
King, Henry Vernon, son of Henry John King FCA, Treasurer Gravesend BC, and Dorothy Margaret, d. of John Hanks Cooper of Gravesend; b. 2 May 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (R), KS Sept. 1932; left July 1936; RAFVR in WW2 (Flt Lieut.), regazetted FO 1948; AFRAeS 1948; aircraft designer De Havilland Aircraft Co. 1946-59; project designer Plessey Co. 1959-80; tech. co-ordinator Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd 1980-3; retd 1983; m. 12 Dec. 1942 Yvonne Peta, d. of Mrs E. D. Caine of Hoddesdon, Herts; d. 11 Aug. 2008.
KING, HENRY, eldest son of John King (elected to Oxford 1576, qv); bapt. 16 Jan 1591/2; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1608, matr. 20 Jan 1608/9, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1616; BA 1611; MA 1614; BD and DD 1625; ordained; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 24 Jan 1615/6 – Feb 1641/2; Archdeacon of Colchester 10 Apr 1617 – Feb 1641/2; Rector of Fulham, Middlesex 18 Nov 1618 – Feb 1641/2; Chaplain to James I; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 3 Mar 1623/4 – Feb 1641/2; Dean of Rochester 6 Feb 1638/9 – Feb 1641/2; consecrated Bishop of Chichester 6 Feb 1641/2; ejected during the Commonwealth and reinstated at the Restoration; the old altar books of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, were presented by him in 1638 (Thompson, Christ Church, 258); friend of Ben Jonson (qv), Isaac Walton and John Donne; author, Poems, 1657; m. Anne, eldest dau. of Robert Berkeley; d. 30 Sep 1669. DNB.
KING, ISAAC, son of Isaac King, High Wycombe, Bucks., and Elizabeth Shrimpton; b. 21 Mar 1776; adm. 17 Jul 1787; KS 1791; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1795, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1795, aged 19, scholar 8 Apr 1796, matr. 1796; migr. to Trinity Hall, Cambridge; LLB 1801; ordained; Perpetual Curate of St. Leonard’s, Bucks., 1802, and of Lee, Bucks.; Vicar of High Wycombe, Bucks., from 13 Mar 1805; Rector of Halton, Bucks., 16 Jul 1805-26; Chaplain to Prince Regent; m. 23 Jun 1803 Hester Maria, dau. of William Beeston Coyte MD, Ipswich, Suffolk; d. 20 Jan 1832.
KING, JAMES, brother of Walker King (adm. 1811, qv); bapt. St. Mary, St. Marylebone Road 25 Dec 1801 (IGI); adm. Lady Day 1814; KS (aged 14) 1815; left Easter 1816; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1818; BA 1822; MA 1825; ordained deacon (Rochester) 1825, priest (Bath and Wells) 1825; Rector of Longfield, Kent, from 24 Jun 1825; Vicar of Frindsbury, Kent 31 Aug 1825; Rector of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 18 Dec 1825; m. 30 Jul 1825 Maria, eldest dau. of Lieut. -Col. Hon. George Carleton, Inspector of Militia, Canada; d. 21 Jun 1864.
KING, JOHN, son of Philip King, Worminghall, Bucks., Page to Henry VIII, and Elizabeth, dau. of Edmund Conquest, Houghton Conquest, Beds.; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1576, Westminster Student 18 Jun 1577-91; BA 26 Jan 1679/80; MA 15 Feb 1582/3 (incorp. Cambridge 1584); BD 1591; DD 1601; Proctor 1589; ordained; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev. John Piers, Archbishop of York; Prebendary of Salisbury 17 Feb 1589 – c. Mar 1590; Archdeacon of Nottingham 12 Aug 1590- Sep 1611; Rector of St. Andrew’s, Holborn 10 May 1597-1611; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 16 Aug 1599- Sep 1611; Chaplain in Ordinary to Elizabeth I and James I; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 4 Aug 1605-11; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1607-11; Prebendary of Lincoln 16 Dec 1610- Sep 1611; consecrated Bishop of London 8 Sep 1611; a learned divine and styled by James I “the King of Preachers”; the last bishop to burn a heretic (Thompson, Christ Church, 47); m. Joan, dau. of Henry Freeman, Staffs.; d. 30 Mar 1621.