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Ken, or Kenn, Dr Thomas (1637–1711), bishop of Bath and Wells (1685-8) and Nonjuror; rector of Little Easton, Essex (1663-5); comptroller of the royal household and Privy Councillor (1672); rector of Brighstone on the Isle of Wight (1667-9); rector of East Woodhay (1669); king’s chaplain (1680); acquaintance of Pepys; suffered deprivation after the Glorious Revolution (1688); refused to take oaths to monarchs after 1688; author of Manual of Prayers for the Use of Winchester Scholars (1674) and Practice of Divine Love (1685): 614 n. a, 922n. b
Kennedy, Dr (fl. 1778), ‘not the Lisbon physician’, but probably Dr John Kennedy (below): 652–3
Kennedy, Dr John (1698–1782), Church of England clergyman and chronologist; rector of Bradley, Derbyshire; author of A New Method of Stating and Explaining the Scriptural Chronology (1751) and A Complete System of Astronomical Chronology, Unfolding the Scriptures (1762), which contains a dedication to George III written by S.J.: 15, 195
Kennicott, Dr Benjamin (1718–83), biblical scholar; chaplain to Bishop Robert Lowth of Oxford (1766); Radcliffe librarian at Oxford (1767–83); collator of Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament; compiled Vetus Testamentum Heb-raicum cum variis lectionibus (1776, 1780); enjoyed an international reputation transcending denominations: 327
Kennicott, Mrs Ann (d. 1830), wife of Benjamin Kennicott; very friendly with Mrs Garrick, Fanny Burney and Hannah More; founder of two scholarships at Oxford for the promotion of Hebrew studies: 921–3, 932
Kenrick, Dr William (1725? –79), writer and translator; author of The Whole Duty of Woman (1753); replaced Goldsmith as chief reviewer for the Monthly Review; translated Rousseau (1761-7) and Voltaire (1764); sought to engage S.J. in a controversy over his Dictionary, publishing his own New Dictionary of the English Language (1773); published Love in the Suds (1772), accusing Garrick of a homosexual relationship with Isaac Bickerstaff; professional writer who sullied his reputation with frequent and unjustified attacks on more famous contemporaries: 260–61, 286, 294, 662
Kettell, Dr Ralph (1563–1643), president of Trinity College, Oxford: 158 n. b
Kettlewell, John (1653–95), Nonjuring Church of England clergyman and theological writer; chaplain to the Countess of Bedford; vicar of Coleshill, Warwickshire (1682); remained fiercely loyal to James II after 1688; author of A Companion for the Penitent, and Persons Troubled in Mind (1694) and Of Christian Communion (1693): 922 n. b
Keysler, Johann Georg (1683–1743), German traveller: 447
Killaloe, bishop of, see Barnard, Dr Thomas
Killingley, Mrs (fl. 1777), landlady of the Green Man, Ashbourne: 635
Kilmarnock, William Boyd, 4th Earl of (1705–46), Jacobite general: 103
Kimchi, Rabbi David (d. 1240): 24
King, Dr William (1650–1729), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin (1703–29); bishop of Derry (1691–1703); author of The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the Late King James’s Government (1691) and De origine male (1702); Lord Justice (1714–15, 1717, 1717–19); member of the Dublin Philosophical Society; the single most important Irish Protestant churchman of his era: 740 n. a
King, Dr William (1685–1763), college head and Jacobite sympathizer; principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford (1719–65); correspondent of Swift; brought S.J. his MA diploma (1755); regular contributor to the opposition paper Common Sense; author ofMiltonis epistola adPollionem (1738), dedicated to Pope: 152 and n. b, 154 n. a, 186
King, Dr (?William, 1701–69), Dissenting minister in London: 679
Kippis, Dr Andrew (1725–95), Presbyterian minister and biographer; minister of the Presbyterian congregation meeting in Princes Street, Westminster (1753); contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine and the Monthly Review; fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1788) and the Royal Society (1779); tutor at the Dissenting college at Hackney (1786); editor and prime mover of the Biographia Britannica (1778–93); criticized for being