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KETT, William, ket, a tanner of Norfolk, who, in the reign of Edward VI., excited a revolt against the government. The insurgents, amounting nearly to twenty thousand, marched to Norwich, which they took, and Kett formed a tribunal under a large oak, called the Tree of Reformation. They first protested only against inclosures and the exactions of the nobility and gentry, but they afterwards inveighed against innovations in religion, and demanded the restoration of popery. After defeating the marquis of Northampton, they were routed by the earl of Warwick, and Kett, with several others, was hanged upon the tree of reformation in 1519.

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a... reached the "Boyle lecture" in 1693. He and his wife were killed in their bed at Wells, during the night of the great storm, Nov. 26, 1703. Besides several sermons and religious tracts, he published a valuable work, entitled "The Demonstration of the Messiah," a "Commentary on the Pentateuch," &c.

KIEN-LOONG, ke-en'-loong, emperor of China, who succeeded his father, Yung-Tching, in 1735. He wrote some poetical pieces, and when Lord Macartney went to China as ambassador, he gave him some of his verses to present to the king of England. He favoured the missionaries, and was in all respects a very amiable monarch. B. 1709; abdicated 1796; D. 1799.

KEULEN, Ludolph van, koi'-len, a Dutch KIKRINGS, Alexander, kee'-rings, a landscapegeometrician, who acquired great celebrity by painter of Utrecht. His views were copied from his calculation of the approximate correspond-nature, and he finished them with amazing eace between the diameter of a circle and its cir- patience, even the bark and the fibres of the cumference. He taught mathematics at Breda trees being distinctly marked. B. 1590; p. 1646. and Amsterdam. D. 1610. KILBURN, Richard, kil-burn, an English topoKEULEN, Janssen van, a portrait-painter,grapher, who wrote a Survey of the county of who, before Vandyck came to England, was in great favour with Charles I. Though the latter great painter supplanted him in his profession, a warm friendship subsisted between the two artists. D. 1665.

Kent, published in 1659.

KILBYE, Richard, ki"-be, an English divine, who, in 1590, was elected rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and was afterwards made Hebrew professor and prebendary of Lincoln. KPY, Thomas Hewitt, ke, a modern English He was one of the translators of the authorized philologist, who, after completing his education version of the Bible. D. 1623.-There was another at St. John's College, Cambridge, studied medi- divine of this name, who was minister of Allcine at Guy's Hospital, London; but went out hallows in Derby, and wrote the "Burthen of a to Virginia in 1921, as professor of pure mathe-loaden Conscience," which book went through matics in the university of that state. Return- several editions. D. 1615. ing to London in 1827, he became Latin professor at the university of London, on the opening of that seat of learning. He afterwards contributed articles on language to the "Journal of Education," the "Penny Cyclopedia," and other works. In 1842 he became head master of the junior school of University KILLIGREW, Anne, a beautiful and accomCollege, and was also elected to the chair of plished English lady, who received a liberal comparative grammar. He subsequently wrote education, distinguished herself in painting, and articles for Dr. Smith's "Dictionary of Classical drew the portraits of the duke and duchess of Antiquities;" and, in 1816, published his Latin York; she was also eminent for her piety. Her Grammar. He was subsequently engaged in poems were published in 1656, with an elegiac writing a "Latin Dictionary," and a "Die-ode by Dryden prefixed. B. in London, 1660; tionary of Roots of Languages." B. in London, 1799.

KHERASKOV, Michael, ker'-as-kor, a Russian poet, who published a poem on the use of science, and an epic called the " Rossiada," the subject of which is the conquest of Casan by Ivan Vasilievitch II. He was vice-president of the college of mines, councillor of state, and curator of the university of Moscow. He was also the writer of some tragedies and dramatic pieces. B. 1733; D. 197.

KILLIGREW, Catharine, kil-li-gru, the wife of Sir Henry Killigrew, of Cornwall, was a lady of great accomplishments, being mistres 3 of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages. She also wrote some poems. B. in Essex, about 1530; D. about 1600.

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KILLIGREW, William, an English dramatic writer, was the son of Sir Robert Killigrew. He received his education at St. John's College, Oxford, after which he went on a course of travel. On his return, he was made governor of Falmouth and of Pendennis Castle. For his adherence to the cause of Charles I. he suffered considerably in his fortune. At the Restoration he was knighted, and made vice-chamberlain to the king. Besides "The Siege of Urbin," "Selindra," "Ormasdes; or, Love and Friendship," he wrote "Midnight and Daily Thoughts," in prose and verse, and "The Artless Midnight Thoughts of Gentleman at Court." B. at Hanworth, Middlesex, 1605; D. 1693.

KHILKOF, Prince, kil-kof, a Russian nobleman, and ambassador to Charles XII., by whom he was thrown into prison when war broke out between Russia and Sweden. In his confine-a ment he wrote an abridgment of the Russian history. He died as he was about to be restored to liberty, after an imprisonment of eighteen years. His work was published in 1770.

KHOSROU, or KHOSRU. (See CHOSROES.) KIDDER, Richard, kid-der, a learned English prelate, was a native of Sussex, or, according to some authorities, of Suffolk, and was edu cated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship. In 1651 he was made prebend of Norwich; and, in 1689, dean of Peterborough, on which occasion he took his doctor's degree. On the deprivation of Dr. Ken, Kidder was consecrated bishop of Bath and Wells,

KILLIGREW, Thomas, brother of the preceding, was page to Charles I., and groom of the bedchamber to Charles II. He wrote nine plays. He was commonly called Kin: Charles's jester; and had more wit in conversation than in writing. B. 1611; D. 1692.

KILLIGREW, Henry, brother of the above, in 1612 was made prebendary of Westminster. He suffered much for his loyalty to Charles I. in the civil war, but at the Restoration recovered his prebend, an 1 was appointed master of the Savoy, and rector of Wheathamstad, in Hertfordshire. He wrote "The Conspiracy," a

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tragedy; and "Pallentus and Eudora," a tragedy. B. 1612; D. 1690.

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himself in his laboratory. He attended that monarch in his last illness, and was ordered one thousand pounds, which he never received. In the "Philosophical Transactions" are some observations by him on ants and the animalcule in pepper; also a paper on transfusing blood from a calf to a sheep. D. unknown when.

KING, Peter, Lord Chancellor of England. His father was a grocer, and intended him for the same business; but a love of learning rendered him superior to trade, and he was suffered to follow his inclination." The philosopher John Locke, who was his maternal uncle, left him half his library at his death, which was of great service to him. By the advice of the

KI MAINE, Charles Joseph,kil-main, an Irishman, who became general in the armies of the French republic. He fought against the English in America, under Lafayette, and was employed as brigadier in the French army sent into La Vendée. He signalized himself in Italy, at Mantua, and at Castiglione, and was nominated commander-in-chief of an army that was to have made a descent upon Ireland; but the expedition was abandoned. He was subsequently placed at the head of the army of Helvetia; but, being unsuccessful, was superseded by General Massena. B. at Dublin, 1754; D. at Paris, 1799. KIWARDEN, Arthur Wolfe, Lord, kil-wawr den, chief justice of the King's Bench, in Ire-same great man he went to Leyden, and, on his land, was called to the bar in 1766; was after wards appointed king's counsel, and sat in Parliament. In 1787 he was made solicitorgeneral, and two years later attorney-general. On the death of Lord Clonmel he was appointed chief justice of the King's Bench, in which dignity he conducted himself with impartiality and moderation. Notwithstanding this, he fell a victim to a ferocious mob, who dragged hin from his coach, with his nephew, the Rev. Richard Wolfe, and barbarously killed them in Thomas Street, Dublin, in 1503. Miss Wolfe, his lordship's daughter, was in the coach, but one of the mob took her under his protection, and conveyed her to a place of safety. The death of the old judge has been portrayed in a popular picture called the 'Assassination of Lord Kilwarden."

KIMBER, Isaac, kim'-ber, an English dissenting divine, who was editor of the "London Magazine for many years, and wrote the "Life of Oliver Cromwell," the "Life of Bishop Beveridge," the "History of England," and twenty posthumous sermons. B. at Wantage, Berks, 1692; D. in London, 1759.

KIMBER, Edward, son of the above, was Trought up a bookseller, but entered the army, and served in America with some reputation. Ile succeeded his father as editor of the "Loudon lagazine." B. 1719; D. 1769.

return, entered of the Inner Temple, where he applied himself to the study of the law with great assiduity. He also devoted some time to other studies, particularly theology, and in 1691 published anonymously,An Enquiry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, and Worship of the Primitive Church, that flourished within the first 300 years after Christ." This work was well received, and soon reached a second edition. In 1699 he was chosen member of parliament for Beeralston, in Devonshire. In 1702 appeared his "History of the Apostles' Creed," a book of considerable information. In 1708 he was chosen recorder of London, and knighted. In 1709 he was appointed one of the managers of the House of Commons on the trial of Dr. Sacheverell. At the accession of George I., in 1714, he was made chief justice f the Court of Common Pleas, and, in 175, created Lord King, baron of Ockham, in Surrey, and shortly after was appointed lord chaneellar. He resigned the seals in 1733. B. at Exeter, 1669; D. 1734.

KING, William, an English writer. In 1719 he was chosen principal of St. Mary Hall, bat, on offering himself as a candidate to represent the university, he resigned that place. Beg disappointed, he went to Ireland; but how Lag he remained there is not known. While in Ireland he wrote a satirical poem, entitled “The Toast." In 1749 he spoke the oration in the theatre at Oxford, on the dedication of Radcliffe's library. He was a zealous Tory, and generally considered as disaffected to the Brune wick family, which brought him into discredit. He published several curious tracts of his osa, and five volumes of South's Serinons, B. in London, 1685; D. 1763.

KIMBERLEY, John Wodehouse, Earl of, kim'ber-le, succeeded his grandfather as BaronWodehouse in 1816, became under-secretary of state for foreign affairs in 1852, and was sent as ambassador to St. Petersburg in 1856. In 1858 he resumed his former post in Lord Palmerston's ministry, which he held till 1861. In 1861 he succeeded the Earl of Carlisle as lord-lieutenant of Ireland, retaining office until the fall of KING, John Glen, an English diving, and Earl Russell's ministry in 1866. On the acces-chaplain to the English factory at St. Peters sion of Mr. Gladstone to office in 1868, he be-burg, became medallist to the empres♣ came lord privy seal. D. 1826. Russia. He wrote the "Rites and Cer

of its Doctrine, Worship, and Distir 5pc,” "Observations on the Climate of Russia cro the Northern Countries," and some "0.8.12 tions on the Barberini Vase." D. 1787.

KING, Hon. Peter John Locke, king, a colla-nies of the Greek Church, containing an aset i teral descendant of the eminent John Locke, and an earnest reformer,represented EastSurrey from 1847 to 1869. He carried the "Real Estate Charges Act" through parliament in 1854, and in 1556 procured the repeal of about 120 useless KING, Thomas, au eminent comedian, re statutes. In 1861 he introduced the "Religious ceived a good education, and was intended Worship Act" for obtaining greater freedom for for trade, which he renounced for the suct clergymen of the Church of England in the ex-before he was 20. He first rose to fame a ercise of their calling, and for several years he has been seeking to alter the law of succession to landed property, making it similar to that which is in force with reference to personal property. B. at Ockham, Surrey, 181.

KING, Sir Edmund, an English physician and chemist. Charles II. used frequently to amuse

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gaming, he lost the fruits of many years' professional toil. B. in London, 1730; D. 1505.

KING, Edward, an antiquary, studied at Lincoln's Inn; was called to the bar, and became recorder of Lynn. He was F.R.S. and F.S.A. and produced an excellent work, entitled "Mu- | nimenta Antiqua." B. at Norwich, 1735; D. 1507. KING, Rufus, an American statesman and diplomatist, was entered at Harvard College in 1773; studied the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1778; and was elected a member of Congress in 1791. In 1796 he was appointed by Washington minister plenipotentiary to the court of St. James's, the functions of which | office he continued to discharge till 1803, when he returned home. In 1513 he was a third time sent to the senate by the legislature of New York; and his speech on the burning of Washington by the English was a most brilliant display of senatorial oratory. In 1816 he lost his election; but in 1820 was once more returned to Congress, and continued a member of that body until the expiration of the term in 1925. He then accepted the appointment of minister plenipotentiary at the court of London; but was taken ill, returned home, and died soon alter. B. in Maine, 1755; D. 1827.

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blem," was first published in "Fraser's Mayazine," and afterwards reprinted, in 1951: this is a philosophical rather than a political nova, His subsequent works were "Hypatia; or New Fues with an Old Face," a beautiful descriptiva fetion, illustrating the times of the early Christian church in the East; "Westward Ho! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amys Leigh in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth;" and "Two Years Ago." These novels, by their great excellence, have placed their author among the foremost of recent writers. Mr. Kingsley al o produced a volume for juvenile reading, called "The Heroe," in with the deeds of some great chiefs of the Grecian mythology are narrated in a captivating manner. Among the more important of his religious writings may be enumerated, "The Messtige of the Church to Labouring Men," "Sermons on National Subjects, preached in a Village Church, and sermons for the Times;" all of these being inspired by a pure, generous, and enlightened Christian feeling. He expounded mental philosophy in his "Phaethon; or, Loose Thoughts for Loo.e Thinkers," and his "Alexandria and her Shools;" while, for natural philosophy and the observation of nature, he KINGLAKE, Alexander William, king'-laik, an contributed his "Glaucus; or, the Wonders English barrister, and author of "Eothen," a of the Shore." He likewise wrote for "Fra celebrated book of Eastern travel. He received ser's Magazine," the "North British Rehis education at Eton and Trinity College, Cam-view," and the "Encyclopædia Britannica.” bridge, and was called to the bar in 1837. He is last works of importance are "The Roman supplied several articles to the newspapers, and the Teuton, "lectures delivered at Cambridge during the Crimean war, descriptive of the in 1861, and a novel entitled "Hereward the military and naval operations; he also wrote a Wake; or, the Last of the English." A bold, short biography of the Hungarian hero, General independent, and earnest thinker, Mr. KingsGayon, and some papers for the "Quarterly ley, in every one of his popular and ex ellent Review." He is now writing a "History of the works, contributed to elevating the tone of Crimean War," of which 4 volumes hive ap-modern society, and to giving it a more enlarged peared. B. at Taunton, Devonshire, 1502. and refined appreciation of the good, beantid, KINGSBOROUGH, Edward, Viscount, kings'- and true, whether in art or nature. He suc burro, a nobleman distinguished for his lite-eceded Sir James Stephen as profe sor of rary tastes and attainments, was the author of an excellent work on "The Antiquities of Mexico." He was the eldest son of the third earl of Kingston, and a fellow of the Antiquarian Society. B. 1795; D. 1537.

modern history in the university of Cambridge in 1959. B. at Holne Vicarage, Devonshire, 1819.

KINGSLEY, Henry, brother of the preceding, was educated at King's College, London, and at KINGSLEY, Rev. Charles, kings'-le, a distin- Oxford. In 1852 he went to Australia, from guished modern novelist and essayist. At 14 which he returned in 1859. He contributed to years of age he became the pupil of the Rev. Fraser's" and "Macmillan's" ma raz nos; Derwent Coleridge, son of the poet; he after-“Ravenshoe," "Geotry Hamlyn," and "The wards went to Cambridge university, where he Hillyars and the Burtons," being the best distinguished himself both in classics and mathe-known of his productions, n. 1830. matics. Ile was at first intended for the law, but the church was afterwards chosen. In 1812 he was appointed curate of Eversley, in Hampshire, two years later he succeeded to the sure living. He married, about the same time, a daughter of Mr. Grenfell, who repre-ented Truro and Great Marlow in Parliament for many years, and whose other daughter became the wife of the eminent historian J. A. Fronda. His first acknowledged contributions to literature were a volume of "Village Sermons," and "The Saint's Tragedy," a drama in verse, published in 1548. "Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet," was his third essay, and, from its first appearance, it commanded the greatest attention. The bold and earnest views of its author-"the Chartist clergyman," as he was called-sank deeply into the public mind. This novel has been several times reprinted; its treatment of social and KINKEL, John Godfrey, kin'-kel, a German political questions remaining as fresh and poet and politician, who, when the revolation of valuable as when the book first came before 1915 burst forth on the continent, was prothe public. A second novel,-"Yeast, a Pro-lessor of philosophy at Bonn, and, declaring

KINGSTON, Elizabeth Chudleigh, duchess of, a celebrated English adventuress, was at first maid of honour to the Princess of Wales, and carried on an intrigue with the duke of Hamilton. She afterwards secretly married Captain Hervey, but separated from him in a short time. Going abroad, she was well receved by Frederick the Great at Berlin. On her return to England, she married the Duke of Kingston, who left her a widow, with immense wealth; but the relatives of the duke prose cuted her for bigamy, and stripped her of her title; they could not, however, recover the great wealth which her second husband's will had given her. She went abroad a second time, and succeeded in inspiring Prince Radziwill with a lively impression. B. in Devenshire, 1720; D. near Paris, 1788.