KEN, THOMAS (1637-1711).—­Religious writer, s. of an attorney, was b. at Little Berkhampstead, ed. at Winchester and Oxf., and entering the Church received the living of Brightstone, Isle of Wight, where he composed his Morning, Evening, and Midnight Hymns, perhaps the most widely known of English hymns.  These he was accustomed to sing daily to the lute.  After holding other benefices he became Bishop of Bath and Wells, and a Chaplain to Charles II.  He was one of the “Seven Bishops” sent to the Tower by James II.  Refusing to take the oaths to William and Mary, he was deprived, and spent his later years in comparative poverty, though he found an asylum at Longleat with Lord Weymouth.  Izaak Walton was his brother-in-law.  K. wrote a manual of prayers for Winchester School, and other devotional works.

KENNEDY, JOHN PENDLETON (1795-1870).—­Novelist, b. in Baltimore, was distinguished as a lawyer and politician.  He wrote three novels, Swallow Barn (1832), Horse Shoe Robinson (1835), and Rob of the Bowl (1838), which give a vivid presentation of life in the Southern States.

KENNEDY, WALTER (fl. 1500).—­S. of Lord K., was ed. at Glasgow, and is perhaps best known as Dunbar’s antagonist in the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy.  Other poems are Praise of Aige (Age), Ane Ballat in Praise of Our Lady, and The Passion of Christ.  Most of his work is probably lost.

KILLIGREW, THOMAS (1612-1683).—­Dramatist, s. of Sir Robert K., of Hanworth, was a witty, dissolute courtier of Charles II., and wrote nine plays, each in a different city.  Of them the best known is The Parson’s Wedding.

KING, HENRY (1592-1669).—­Poet, s. of a Bishop of London, was ed. at Westminster School and Oxf.  He entered the Church, and rose in 1642 to be Bishop of Chichester.  The following year he was deprived, but was reinstated at the Restoration.  He wrote many elegies on Royal persons and on his private friends, who included Donne and Ben Jonson.  A selection from his Poems and Psalms was pub. in 1843.

KINGLAKE, ALEXANDER WILLIAM (1809-1891).—­B. near Taunton, ed. at Eton and Camb., was called to the Bar in 1837, and acquired a considerable practice, which in 1856 he abandoned in order to devote himself to literature and public life.  His first literary venture had been Eothen, a brilliant and original work of Eastern travel, pub. in 1844; but his magnum opus was his Invasion of the Crimea, in 8 vols. (1863-87), which is one of the most effective works of its class.  It has, however, been charged with being too favourable to Lord Raglan, and unduly hostile to Napoleon III., for whom the author had an extreme aversion.  Its great length is also against it.

KINGSFORD, WILLIAM (1819-1898).—­Historian, b. in London, served in the army, and went to Canada, where he was engaged in surveying work.  He has a place in literature for his History of Canada in 10 vols., a work of careful research, though not distinguished for purely literary merits.