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KENDALL, JAMES, brother of Thomas Kendall (qv); b. 1647; adm. 10 Jul 1658; KS (aged 13) 1661; adm. Middle Temple 27 Apr 1666, Lincoln’s Inn 28 Nov 1666; MP West Looe Apr 1685 – Feb 1689/90, 1695-1702, Lostwithiel 17 Jan 1706 and from 17 Jan 1708; Governor of Barbados 1690-4; a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty 24 Feb 1696- Jun 1699; d. 10 Jul 1708. Buried North Aisle, Westminster Abbey.

KENDALL, GEORGE; b.; adm.; QS; served in the Low Countries for seven years; employed as an “intelligencer” by Secretary Cecil in the Spanish Netherlands 1600/1 (CSP Dom 1598-1601, 484-5; CSP Dom 1601-3, 37, 38, 140).

KEMPE, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1597, adm. scholar 1598, matr. 1598; BA 1601/2; MA 1605; ordained deacon and priest (Norwich) 21 Sep 1606, aged 26.

KEMPE, JOHN, only son of George Kempe, St. James’s, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1716; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1720, matr. 23 Jun 1720, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1720 – void 28 Jun 1733; BA 1724; MA 1727; adm. Middle Temple 15 Jan 1723/4, called to bar 20 Jun 1729; m. Elizabeth, only dau. of John Staunton, Longbridge, Warwicks.; d. 11 Oct 1738. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

KEMP, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.

KELLY, ROBERT HENRY, brother of Edward Festus Kelly (qv); b. 4 Aug 1855; adm. 12 Jun 1868 (G); QS 1870; left Mar 1873; went to Australia; drowned while crossing river Logan, New South Wales Apr 1875.

KELLY, REDMOND HINTON, brother of John Francis Kelly (qv); b. (Richmond); adm.; KS (aged 12) 1793; played cricket v. Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1797, matr. 19 Jun 1797, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1797 – void 9 Apr 1805; BA 1801; Ensign, 76th Foot J Jan 1804; 17th Foot 23 Jun 1804; Lieut., 2nd West India Regt., 16 May 1804; 64th Foot 7 Sep 1804; Capt., 4 Jan 1810; half-pay 25 Feb 1817; sold out 14 Jul 1825; d. 1831.

KELLY, GEORGE DE SMITH, son of John Kelly MD, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, and Maria Sophia --- (IGI); bapt. 1760; adm. 6 Feb 1770; KS 1776; convicted with four other Westminster boys at Middlesex QS 21 May 1779, of a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard (Annual Register 1779, 213); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1780, matr. 24 May 1780, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1780 – void 16 Jan 1790 (expiry year of grace as V. Featherstone); BA 1784; MA 1787; ordained; Curate, Doncaster, Yorks., 1786; Vicar of Featherstone, Yorks., from Jan 1789; Vicar of Darrington, Yorks., 24 Jan 1791-1815; Vicar of Ampleforth, Yorks., Apr 1802; Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks., 26 Jun 1804 (disp. to hold with Darrington); Vicar of Kirk Ireton, Derbs., 2 Mar 1815; Vicar of Wirksworth, Derbs., 1 Aug 1815 (disp. to hold with Kirk Ireton); Prebendary of Southwell from 17 Jan 1789; Prebendary of York from 29 Jul 1801, Canon Residentiary from 9 Apr 1802; m. 30 Mar 1789 Catherine Davilda Laye, Doncaster, Yorks.; d. 17 Oct 1823, aged 63.

KEITH, WILLIAM, son of John Keith, London; b.; in school list 1746; KS (aged 15) 1751; left 1751.

KEITH, PETER, only son of James Keith MD, St. George the Martyr, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1726; KS 1729; Capt. of the School 1733; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1734, matr. 12 Jun 1734, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1734 – void by death 11 Mar 1740; BA 1738; author of the poem on Milton printed in the sixth edition of the Poems of Vincent Bourne (qv); d. 1740 (will proved PCC 2 Mar 1740). [Presumably Peter Keith, son of James Keith, and Elizabeth ---, bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 15 Jul 1715 (IGI)].