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KIMBER, JABEZ WILLIAM, son of Thomas Kimber, Burfield Hall, Wymondham, Norfolk, and Bonchurch Road, London, cashier, and Louisa --- (1881 Census); b. 2 Aug 1864; adm. from Marlborough Coll. 22 Jan 1880 (H); left Dec 1881; a clerk, Norwich Union Life Insurance Co. [mother’s surname perhaps Clifford (IGI)]

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.

Kerans, Arthur Lees, son of Thomas George Kerans, M.R.C.P. (I.), of Hyde Park, by Jessie, daughter of Crawford Allen, of Kilconnell, County Galway, Ireland; b. May 22, 1874; adm. April 24, 1890 (H); left March 1891; served in France Aug. 1916-Sept. 1919, first as Capt. 3rd Batt. Manchester Regt. and afterwards transferred to the Labour Corps as Salvage Officer at Etaples; was invalided home as Major; m. Nov. 19, 1910, Ada, daughter of Joseph Osborne Magrini, of Florence, Italy.

Kent, George Francis Nelson, son of George John Kent of Bexhill-on-Sea and Florence Edith, d. of William Henry Kearney of Dungannon, Co. Tyrone; b. 21 Oct. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (H); left Dec. 1924; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. 1926; m. 22 May 1947 Elena Eloisa, d. of Paul Theodore Schmidt, Freiherr von und zu Balensi, of Vienna; d. 31 Mar. 1993.

Kent, Cecil, son of Charles Alston Kent, of St. John's Wood, secretary to Trinity House; b. Sept. 25, 1883; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (H); left July 1902; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1902; B.A. 1905; served in Great War I; temp. Lieut. R.N.V.R. Dec. 21, 1914; Lieut. ­ Commander Sept. 19, 1917; author of The Story of the Tests in England (1934); d. April 14, 1942.

Kendall, David, son of Guy Kendall, HM Univ. Coll. Sch., and Ada, d. of J. Sampson, solicitor, of Withington, Manchester; b. 24 Feb. 1913; adm. May 1927 (H); left Apr. 1929; Oriel Coll. Oxf., matric. 1930, BA 1933, MA 1945; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1936; BM 1936, DM 1945; consult. neurologist SW Metropolitan Hosp. Board, St George's Hosp., SW Thames RHA, and DHSS; FRCP 1972; a contributor to BMJ and The Lancet; m. 6 Mar. 1937 Wilfrida Laura, d. of Arthur Stanley Lawson of Quebec; d. 31 Dec. 2000.

KEMP, REGINALD, only son of Thomas Richardson Kemp QC, Queen’s Gate Terrace, South Kensington, barrister, and Emily Jane Catherine Elizabeth Colmar, eldest dau. of Charles James Plumptre, Hamilton Terrace, St. John’s Wood, barrister; b. 13 May 1866; adm. 27 May 1880 (H); left Dec 1883; adm. Middle Temple 30 Oct 1884, called to bar 22 Jun 1887; South-Eastern Circuit; Coroner for West Middlesex 1915 -; JP Middlesex 1907; m. 29 Mar 1894 Bertha, youngest dau. of Abram Augustus Flint, Uttoxeter, Staffs., Coroner for Derbyshire; d. 3 Mar 1943.

Kelsey, Leon de Barr, only son of Richard and Annie Kelsey, of South Kensington; b. March 3, 1884; adm. April 28, 1898 (H); left July 1901; studied architecture for six years and subse­quently entered his father's business; joined the Inns of Court O. T. C. April 22, 1915; 2nd Lieut. 23rd (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. June 11, 1915; went out to the western front Sept. 24, 1915; killed in action between Guinchy and Fiers Sept. 16, 1916; unm.

Kelsey, Henry Harold, son of Henry George Kelsey, of St. John's Wood; b. June 30, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1894 (H); left Aug. 1899; adm. a solicitor Feb. 1905; in practice in St. James's Street, Piccadilly.

Keel, Frederick Compton, son of James Frederick Keel, Prof. of Singing Roy. Acad. of Music, and Dora, d. of E. T. Compton, artist; b. 6 Mar. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (H); left July 1930; ARIBA 1937; RNVR (Sp) in WW2 (Lieut.); lecturer AA Sch. of Architecture 1946-9; asst architect East Riding CC 1949, Humberside CC 1974; m. 7 Oct. 1944 Pauline Hanson, d. of John Cecil Victor Grundy of Huddersfield; d. 11 May 1983.