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, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1738 (Jackson's); left 1740.
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
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.
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.
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.
Kidd, Roger Guy Beresford, son of Alan Harrison Kidd, sec. Univ. Grants Committee, and Dorothy Judith, d. of Rev. John Jervis Beresford, Rector of Easton Grey, Wilts; b. 19 Apr. 1923; adm. Jan. 1937 (R); left July 1940; King’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1942, BA 1945, MA 1949; schoolmaster; m. 10 Apr. 1948 Annette, d. of Allen Stephen Locke of New York, USA.
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).
Kidner, Frank Derek, son of Frank Kidner of Northwood, Middx, and Dora Edith, d. of Richard Hatfield of Ealing; b. 22 Sept. 1913; adm. Sept. 1927 (A); left July 1930; Roy. Coll. of Music, ARCM 1934, Challen Gold Medal 1936; Christ's Coll. Camb., matric. 1937, BA 1940 (1st class hons Economics Trip. Pt 1, Theological Trip. Pt 1), MA 1944; ord. deacon 1941, priest 1942 (Rochester); Curate Sevenoaks, Kent, 1941; Vicar of Felsted, Essex, 1947; sen. tutor Oak Hill Theolog. Coll. 1951; select preacher Camb. Univ. 1957; Warden Tyndale House Camb. 1964, retd 1978; author of commentaries on several books of the Old Testament; m. 14 Feb. 1942 Mary le Pelley, d. of James Hansford Wheadon of Hampton-on-Thames; d. 27 Nov. 2008.
Kidner, Richard Daymond, brother of Roger Wakely Kidner (qv); b. 20 Dec. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (A, non-res. KS); left July 1939; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1939; RA 1941-6 (Capt.); d. after a traffic accident in Trieste 15 Feb. 1946.
Richard Daymond Kidner was born at Bexley, Kent on the 30th of December 1920 the son of Arthur Richard Kidner, Director of Postal Services at the Royal Mint, and Mabel (nee Wakely) Kidner of “The Oaks”, Station Road, Bexley in Kent, later of “Starfell”, Southdown Road, Seaford in Sussex. He was christened at Holy Trinity Church, Bexley on the 15th of February 1921.
He was educated at Merton Court School, Foot’s Cray and at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham as a non resident King’s Scholar from September 1933 to July 1939. He won both the Ireland Prize for Latin Verse and the Ireland Prize for Greek Verse in 1938. He matriculated for Christ Church, Oxford in 1939 on a Weston Exhibition and was there for two years. He was awarded a BA. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on the 18th of October 1941.
On the 15th of February 1946, Richard Kidner left the Regiment’s base at Gradisca by car to attend a course at Perugia. During the journey he was seriously injured in a traffic accident at San Giorgio. He was taken to the British General Hospital in Trieste where he died from his injuries during the evening.
His funeral took place the following day.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Christ Church, Oxford and on the memorial at Merton Court School.
He is buried at Udine War Cemetery Plot III, Row D, Grave 12.