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.

Keymer, Ronald Cooper, brother of Kenneth Cooper Keymer (qv); b. 1 Jan. 1911; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left fuly 1928; D. J. Keymer & Co., advertising agents, 1929-39; RAOC 1939-46 (Lieut.-Col.), despatches (Middle East) June 1943, OBE (Burma) Jan. 1946; dir. Sudan Mercantile Group 1946, man. dir. 1950-63; CBE 1963; Univ. of Edinburgh, Dip. African Studies 1964; hospital admin. Kenya 1966, S. Africa 1970-3; a Church of Scotland missionary, Vice-Pres. CMS; m. 23 Jan. 1947 Mary Rae Gray MBE MB ChB, d. of Thomas Gilfillan Gray, insurance agent; d. 29 July 2003.

KEY, SAMUEL, third son of Rev. Samuel Key, Fulford Hall, Yorks., and Harriet, dau. of William Lumb, Whitehaven, Cumberland; b. 21 Jul 1848; adm. 24 Sep 1863 (G); left Christmas 1864; an artist; m. [by 1881] Blanche Lefroy, dau. of Joshua Francis Whittell, Upper Helmsley Hall, Yorks.; d. 13 Mar 1922.

Key, Samuel Whittell, son of Samuel Key (q.v.); b. Sept. 20, 1874; adm. from Haileybury Sept. 25, 1888 (G); left July 1889; St. John's Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1892; sub­sequently migrated to St. Catharine's Coll. 1895; B.A. 1898; M.A. 1901; Cambridge Clergy Training School 1898; ord. deacon 1899, priest 1901 (Norwich); Curate of North Walsham, 1899-1902, Chislehurst, Kent, 1902-3, and Lee, in the same co., 1903-5; Vicar of Cleator, Cumberland, 1905-10, of All Saints, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1910-22; Chaplain to the Forces (4th class) June 6, 1914; Rector of Great Blakenham 1922-8; Vicar of Fulford, Yorks 1928; author of The Material in Support of the Spiritual (1916), The Broken Fang (1920), and other works; m. April 5, 1899, Katherine Hilda, daughter of the Rev. John Carter Browne, D.D., of Dover, Kent; d. Jan. 29, 1948

KERR, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1738 (Jackson's); left 1740.

Kerr, Ian Henry, son of Leslie William Kerr, Bank of England official, of Purley, Surrey, and Vera Irene, d. of Henry Edwin Goddard of Goring-by-Sea, Sussex; b. 4 May 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (A); left July 1954; QMC, BSc 1960; dir. D’Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles, advertising agency 1970-87; a marketing consult. Henkel KG & A 1991-2001; m. 16 Sept. 1961 Ann Lucia, d. of Donald H. Turner, man. trustee Dept Lloyds Bank; d. 16 May 2006.

KERR, FREDERICK WILLIAM, son of T. N. Kerr, Tavistock Square, London; b. 7 Jun 1859; adm. 6 Apr 1872 (James'); left 1873; d. 3 Sep 1938.

Kerpen, Claude Valentine, son of James Louis Baron von Kerpen, of South Kensington, by Millicent, daughter of James Maude, of Cheltenham, Glos.; b. May 28, 1897; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (R); left July 1914; enlisted in R. N. Div. Oct. 1914; joined the 4th Batt. Royal Fusiliers and in Feb. 1915 obtained a commission in the 3rd Batt. Northamptonshire Regt.; transferred R. F. C. June 11, 1916; Lieut. July 1, 1917; was wounded Aug. 7, 1917, at Herdin, in France; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. July 4, 1939; Flying Officer Sept. 12, 1939; Flight­ Lieut. Dec. 1, 1941; seconded for special duty Dec. 1943 to Feb. 1944; m. March 28, 1923, Frances Deborah, elder daughter of John Frances Albright, of Hook Heath, Woking.

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.

Kerensky, Oleg, son of Oleg Alexander Kerensky CBE FRS DSc MICE, and his first wife Nathalie, d. of James Bely of Chelsea; b. 9 Jan. 1930; adm. Sept. 1943 (R); left July 1948; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1948, BA 1951, MA 1955; a journalist and critic; dep. editor The Listener 1963-8; ballet critic Daily Mail 1957-71, New Statesman 1968-78, International Herald Tribune 1971-9; New York correspondent The Stage 1980-; adj. Prof. New York Univ., USA 1985-; author of Ballet Scene 1970, Anna Pavlova 1973, The New British Drama 1979; d. 9 July 1993.