Kirby, Herbert Robert, second son of William Kirby, of Ealing; b. April 29, 1881; adm. from St. Paul's School as (non-resident) Q.S. Sept. 27, 1895 (A); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. (with Triplett) 1900, matric. Michaelmas 1900; d. at Ch. Ch. May 15, 1903.
Kiralfy, Dennis Maurice Gerald, son of Gerald Archibald Kiralfy MBE and Margaret Milner, d. of John Milner Harker; b. 19 Mar. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (H); left Dec. 1930; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. 1932, BA 1935; swam and played water polo against Oxford 1936; Brit. Aviation Insurance Co. 1936-9; Dept. of Civil Aviation Air Ministry 1939; FO RAFVR 1938; killed on active service 1 Jan. 1941.
Dennis Maurice Gerald Kiralfy was born at Kensington, London on the 19th of March 1913 the only son of Gerald Archibald Kiralfy MBE, an architect, and Margaret Milner (nee Harker) Kiralfy of 9, Addison Crescent, London, later of Oak Grove, Churt in Surrey. He was christened at the Church of St John the Baptist, Kensington on the 3rd of June 1913. He was educated at Linton House School from 1921 to July 1926 and at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1926 to December 1930. He matriculated for the City and Guilds Engineering College at South Kensington in September 1931 and was accepted as a student member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the 17th of November 1931. He resigned his membership on the 2nd of January 1933.
He matriculated for Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1932 where he achieved a BA in 1936. He represented Cambridge University at swimming at Wembley against Oxford University on the 27th of June 1936 and also was also a member of the University at Water Polo team in 1936. He was on the staff of the British Aviation Insurance Company from 1936 to 1939 when he left to join the Department of Civil Aviation Department at the Air Ministry where he was appointed as a Junior Operations Officer in the Directorate of Operational Services.
He was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Reserve of Air Force Officers on the 22nd of September 1936 and was promoted to Flying Officer on the 22nd of March 1938. He resigned his commission in order to accept a commission on the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve with the rank of Pilot Officer on the 20th of October 1938 and was promoted to Flying Officer from the same date, with seniority from the 22nd of March 1938.
Dennis Kiralfy took off from RAF Bircham Newton in Hudson Mk I T9287 for a transit flight to a satellite airfield where the aircraft was to drop off three airmen and then continue on for an orientation flight of the general area. The aircraft was flying at low level near to the satellite airfield when its port wing hit a barn at Barn Field, North Street, Longham in Norfolk. The aircraft crashed into a ploughed field at 2.48pm where it caught fire, killing all on board.
The crew was
Flying Officer Henry Edward Middleton Featherstone (Pilot)
Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Charles George Gilder (Air Gunner)
Leading Aircraftman William Arthur Meller (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Robert Arthur Plowright (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Roy McKenzie Mansell (3rd Pilot)
Pilot Officer John Buttemer Allen (2nd Pilot)
Flying Officer Dennis Maurice Gerald Kiralfy (4th Pilot)
Aircraftman 1st Class George Alexander Meridew (Air Gunner)
His father received the following telegram dated the 2nd of January 1941: - “Deeply regret to inform you that your son Flying Officer Dennis Maurice Gerald Kiralfy is reported to have lost his life as the result of an aircraft accident on January 1st 1941. Letter follows. The Air Council express their profound sympathy.”
An inquiry into the accident concluded that: -“All the occupants were killed and the exact cause of the accident will never be fully established. The pilot was very experienced and had a reputation for steadiness and reliability, the error of judgement that he made with such tragic results is in this case almost inexplicable. The pilot’s instructions were to drop 3 airmen at the satellite aerodrome to work on an aircraft which was urgently required, then to take 2 new pilots round the district to show them various landmarks, the situation of the satellite and the orientation of the aerodrome generally.”
His funeral took place on the 7th of January 1941.
He is buried at St Alban’s Church, Hindhead.
KINSMAN (or KYNNESMAN), EDMUND, second son of Harold Kinsman, Broughton, Northants, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Golborne, Liverpool; bapt. 6 Jul 1605; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1623, adm. scholar 1624; BA 1627/8; MA 1631; ordained; Rector of Clipston, Northants, in 1640; m. Dorothy, only dau. of Moyle Deale, London; d. 17 Oct 1640.
KINGSTON, PETER NUGENT; b. (Marylebone) 25 Sep 1805; adm. 18 Sep 1820 (Stelfox's); MD Edinburgh 1831; MRCP 1833; FRCP 1847; practised in Curzon Street, Mayfair, London (no longer in practice in 1881); Physician to Westminster Hospital; m. (by 1881) Catherine N. ---; d. 11 Nov 1882.
KINGSMAN, THOMAS, son of Thomas Kingsman, Covent Garden, London, wine merchant, and his second wife Anne, sister of Rear-Adm. Robert Long, Royal Navy; bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 12 Jun 1710; adm. 1719; readm. (aged 10) Oct 1721; Min. Can. 1724; KS 1725; Capt. of the School 1728; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1729, matr. 12 Jun 1729, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1729 – void 10 Oct 1741 (expiry year of grace as R, Woolwich from 8 Oct 1740); BA 1733; MA 1736; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Jun 1731; ordained; Rector of Woolwich, Kent 1740-52; Rector of St. Paul’s Cray, Kent, from 1752; m. 7 May 1743 Arabella, dau. of John Scattergood, Madras, East India merchant [EICS Madras ?]; buried St. Paul’s Cray 23 Jul 1752.
KINGSMAN, HENRY LONG, son of William Long Kingsman DCL, Newbury, Berks., and Dorothea, dau. of Thomas Maunsell LLD KC MP, Counsel to Commissioners of Customs [I ?]; grandson of Thomas Kingsman (qv); bapt. 22 Jul 1775; adm. 24 Jan 1784; KS (Capt., aged 12) 1787; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jul 1792, called to bar 22 Jun 1798; appears to have been confined to Fleet Prison Apr 1802; d. in Jamaica 1802.
Kingsley, Ian Douglas, son of Ernest Douglas Kingsley of Sedlescombe, Sussex, and Vera Cynthia, d. of Harold P. Clark; b. 23 Sept. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (G); left July 1942; Univ. of Exeter 1943-4; joined BBC 1944, Forces broadcasting Cairo and Jerusalem 1946-7; BBC Sri Lanka 1949-51, Chinese Programme organiser 1951-4; head of programmes Radio Sarawak 1954-9; BBC Thailand 1959-60; Radio Hong Kong 1960-76; m. 9 Sept. 1950 Joy Daphne, d. of L. Garner of Westgate, Kent; d. June 1996.
King-Farlow, John, son of Hugh St Denys Nettleton King-Farlow MBE, of Biding Gap, Sussex, and his first wife Barbara Hazel McKinley, d. of Benjamin Guggenheim of New York, USA; b. 9 July 1932; adm. Sept. 1946 (R); left July 1951; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1951, BA 1956, MA 1969; Duke Univ., USA, MA 1958; Stanford Univ., USA, PhD 1960; asst. Prof. of Philosophy Univ. of California (Santa Barbara), USA 1962-5; Leverhulme Foundn. Fellow Univ. of Liverpool 1966-8; Prof. of Philosophy, Univ. of Alberta, Canada 1972-98; visiting Prof. Univ. of Guelph, Canada 1971-2, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada 1972-3; sec. Canadian Philosophical Assn. 1974, Pres. 1977-8; editor Canadian Journal of Philosophy 1971-; FRS (Canada); author and joint author of several works on philosophy, sociology and religion; m. 1st, 27 Nov. 1959 Nancy Carole, d. of H. A. Holman of Chicago, IL, USA; 2nd, 19 Mar. 1971 Sylvia Ann, d. of N. Kostyk of Edmonton, Alberta; 3rd, Elizabeth Ann Slater, registered nurse, d. of Kenneth Ellison Slater; d. 31 July 2002.
KING, WILLIAM, fourth son of Rev. John King, Witnesham, Suffolk, Head Master Ipswich GS, and Elizabeth Sarah, dau. of Rev. Thomas Bishop, Vicar of St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk; b. 17 Apr 1786; adm. Oct 1801 (Clapham); took part of Iago in performance of Othello by “the Clapham fellows at Dawsons” 7 Dec 1803 (Lord John Russell’s MS diary); left Jan 1804; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Feb 1804, but did not go into residence; remained at Westminster until he left Christmas 1806; Peterhouse, Cambridge, matr. 27 Dec 1806; BA and 12th Wrangler 1809; MA 1812; Fellow, Peterhouse 1812; MD 1819; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; FRCP 1820, Harveian Orator 1843; practised at Brighton, Sussex, from 1823; the friend and adviser of Lady Byron, who left a sum of money for the publication of his works; a staunch advocate of co-operation, editing The Co-operator 1828-30; author of papers on medical subjects; m. 17 Jan 1821 Mary, dau. of Rev. Thomas Redman Hooker DD, Vicar of Rottingdean, Sussex; d. 20 Oct 1865. DNB.
KING, WILLIAM, son of Ezekiel King, Clerkenwell, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas Backhouse, St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London; b.; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1681, matr. 16 Dec 1681, aged 18, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1681 – Dec 1693, Faculty Student from 23 Dec 1693; BA 1685; MA 1688 (incorp. Cambridge 1705); BCL and DCL 1692; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 12 Nov 1692; Vicar-General, Armagh 1692; Judge of Admiralty Court (I) 1701; Writer of Gazette Dec 1711 – c. Jul 1712; an able but indolent man, of strong Tory and High Church views, a moderate poet and a witty miscellaneous writer; known by contemporaries as “King of the Commons”; according to Johnson, “though his life had not been without irregularity, his principles were pure and orthodox, and his death was pious” (Lives of the Poets, ed. G. B. Hill, ii, 31); author of an attack upon Bentley entitled Dialogues of the Dead, 1699, and other books and pamphlets; a collection of his Original Works, ed. Nichols, was published in 1776; d. 25 Dec 1712. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.