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KIRBY, ROWLAND ARTHUR, son of Thomas Charles Kirby MD LRCP (I) MRCS, Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, London, and Henrietta Sophia, dau. of Edward Peploe Smith, EICS Bengal; b. 29 Jan 1868; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (H); left Aug 1884; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Oct 1887; BA 1890; MB 1897; MRCS LRCP 1893; medical practitioner (no longer in practice by 1926); d. 30 Jan 1940.

Kirkman, Percy John, son of Thomas Harrison Kirkman, of Kensington, by Edith, daughter of William Edgar Langdon, of Braunton, Devon; b. Aug. 27, 1896; adm. Jan. 19, 1911 (H); left Dec. 1913; a clerk in the London County and Westminster Bank 1914-6; a schoolmaster 1919-33; served in France 1916-9 in the ranks of the Northumberland Fusiliers and the York and Lancaster Regt.; d. June 1988.

Kirkness, Desmond, brother of Eustace Kirkness (qv); b. 1 Aug. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (H); left Dec. 1924; Army Gen. List 1939-46 (Lieut.-Col.), GSO1 Washington and War Office, London; TD; man. dir. Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co.; m. 1st 31 Oct. 1931 Molly, d. of A. Buley Dawson of Coulsdon, Surrey; 2nd 11 Oct. 1943 Pauline Muriel, d. of Wing Cdr John Claude Malcolm Lowe RAF, of Bexhill-on-Sea; d. 7 Apr. 1980.

Kirkness, Eustace, son of Stanley Kirkness of Coulsdon, Surrey; b. 18 July 1905; adm. May 1919 (H); left Dec. 1922; a timber importer; m. 6 June 1942 Esther Ellen, d. of Ernest Joseph Ward of Findon, Sussex; d. 3 May 1988.

Kitchin, Courtenay Arthur Harcourt, brother of Derek Harcourt Kitchin (q.v.); b. June 4, 1899; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (H); left July 1916; 2nd Lieut. Royal Marine Light Infantry Sept. 1, 1916; Lieut. Sept. 26, 1917; Captain Sept. 1, 1927; retired 1933; a writer and broadcaster; chairman, Harcourt Kitchin and Partners Ltd., public relations consultants; Deputy Inspector­ General, Civil Defence, 1942-5; Regional Director (London) Ministry of Works 1945-50; m. 1st May 25, 1922, Helen Dorothy, daughter of W. S. Thompson, of Bermuda; 2nd May 29, 1947, Mary Muriel, daughter of Sidney George Attwood, of Abbotsford, Vancouver, British Columbia, and widow of Norman Scott Richardson.

Kitchin, Derek Harcourt, elder son of Frederick Harcourt Kitchin, of Glasgow, editor of the Glasgow Herald, by Lilian, eldest daughter of A. B. Goodall, of Bedford; b. Aug. 20, 1896; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 23, 1909 (H); K.S. 1911; left July 1914; served as temp. Lieut. in 17th Batt. Highland Light Infantry 1914-5, and as Lieut. in the Royal Marines 1915-9; employed on political service in the Sudan 1919-24; called to the bar at Gray's Inn, Nov. 17, 1932; South-Eastern Circuit; a translator-reviser on the staff of the United Nations at Lake Success from 1947; m. Aug. 12, 1925, Mary Kathleen Forsaith Lander, M. Sc., M.B., B. S., only daughter of the Right Rev. Richard Brook Lander, D.D., of Teddington, Middlesex; d. 15 Nov. 1980.

Kitchin, Roger Laxton Harcourt, brother of Derek Harcourt Kitchin (q.v.); b. May 31, 1903; adm. May 2, 1917 (H); d. from the effects of an accident Nov. 10, 1919.

Kleeman, Derrick, son of Oscar Kleeman, and Teresa, d. of S. Apfel; b. 11 Oct. 1919; adm. Jan. 1932 (H); left Mar. 1937; chmn. and man. dir. O. & M. Kleeman Ltd. 1951-61, Mobil Chemicals Ltd. 1961-4, Kleeman Industrial Holdings 1965-84; dir. BP Minerals Ltd. 1981-5; chmn. Weizmann Inst. of Science Foundn. 1971-; m. 10 Nov. 1942 Hella, d. of Hugo Lobl, of Prague, Czech Republic; d. 28 Sept. 2017.

Klerck, Jan Klerck van Petersom, son of George William Klerck, Sec. to the High Commissioner of the Union of S. Africa, and Anna Tobia Klerck; b. 27 Feb. 1917; adm. Jan. 1932 (H); left July 1934; Univ. of Cape Town 1934, BA LLB; Union Forces in WW2; South African Dept. of Exter­nal Affairs, Vice-Consul Madagascar and Lourenco Marques; Sec. of Legation Stockholm 1949; Second Sec. Pretoria 1951-4 and 1958-61; Sec. of Legation Rio de Janeiro 1954-8; Sec. of Embassy Buenos Aires 1961; m. 2 Aug. 1951 Nora Madeleine, d. of Holdo Percival Stromwall of Hemmestavik, Stockholm.

Knight, Cecil Bertie Howard, elder son of Alfred Howard Knight, of Brondesbury, Middle­sex, by Luna Lizzie, daughter of William Tomlinson, of Bradley, Derbyshire; b. June 3, 1883; adm. Sept. 27, 1894 (H); exhibitioner 1896; left (with Triplett) July 1902; Exeter Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1902; exhibitioner (History) 1902; B.A. 1905; M.A. 1909; Leeds Clergy School 1907; ord. deacon 1907, priest 1909 (London); Curate of St. John-at­ Hackney, Middlesex, 1907-11, of St. Pancras 1911-3; Warden of the Inns of Court Mission, Drury Lane, 1913-9; Chaplain of Li ncoln's Inn 1913-7; temp. Chaplain to the Forces 1915-9; served in Mesopotamia 1916-7, and in France 1918-9; S. C. F. 1919; M.C. Jan. 11, 1919; Vicar of St. Barnabas, Walthamstow, Essex, 1919-25; Rector of Chingford, in the same co., 1925-32; Vicar of Feering 1932-8; priest-in-charge, Gt. Canfield, 1938-9; Rector of Hutton, Essex, 1939-52; a public preacher, diocese of Chelmsford, since 1952; Hon. Canon of Chelmsford 1941-57; Canon Emeritus 1957; author of The Story of Chingfotd Old Church (1932); m. 1st July 9, 1913, Jessie Gunn Wilson, only daughter of John Wilson Hope, C.B.E., of Wanstead, Essex; 2nd May 18, 1957, Catharine Mary, widow of Reginald Maxwell Mason, of Westland, North Chailey, Lewes, Sussex, and daughter of Daniel John Symonds, of Symondsbury, Dorset; d. 6 Apr. 1976.