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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kemp, Joseph

​KEMP, JOSEPH (1778–1824), musical composer and professor, was born in Exeter in 1778. He was the brother of James Kemp, the author of a poem, ‘Northernhay’ (1808). Kemp was a chorister of the cathedral, and Jackson's pupil. In 1802 he was appointed organist of Bristol Cathedral; in 1807 he settled in London until 1813, taking his musical degrees at Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College) in 1808 and 1809. In 1810, at the Russell Institution, Great Coram Street, Russell Square, London, Kemp began a series of lectures on musical education, in which he advocated the teaching of music in classes and the playing of exercises by pupils in concert. On account of failing health he returned with his wife and family to his native city, and resided there until 1824, with the interruption of a visit to France in 1818–21. He had founded a musical college at Exeter in 1814. A journey to London in April 1824 proved too fatiguing for Kemp, then in a weak state of health, and he died in his lodgings on 22 May. He had married in 1805 the daughter of Henry John of Cornwall, and left at his death his widow, two sons, and one daughter.
Kemp published: 1. Op. I., twelve songs, London, 1799, which show some originality, are somewhat pastoral in character, and are set to accompaniments of various stringed instruments. 2. Six glees, London, 1800. 3. War anthem, ‘A Sound of Battle is in the Land,’ London, 1803, which afterwards served as the exercise for his Mus.Bac. degree. 4. ‘Vocal Magazine of Canzonets, Madrigals, Songs,’ &c., Bristol, 1807. 5. ‘The Jubilee,’ 1809, written by Kemp and set to music by Kemp and Corri, brought out at the little theatre in the Haymarket 25 Oct. 1809. 6. ‘The Siege of Isca,’ melodrama, 1810. 7. Anthem, ‘The Crucifixion,’ the exercise for Mus. Doc. degree, 1810. 8. ‘Sonatas, or Lessons for the Pianoforte,’ a set of exercises, Exeter, 1814(?). 9. Four lessons for the pianoforte or harp. 10. Four lessons for harp. 11. Twenty double chants in score. 12. Twenty psalmodical melodies, dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury, London, 1818. 13. ‘New System of Musical Education,’ as explained in his ‘Lectures,’ part i., and ‘100 Cards, containing more than 500 points in Music, connected with the New System,’ &c., 1810–19. 14. Anthem, ‘I am Alpha and Omega.’ 15. ‘Beauties of Shakespeare.’ 16. ‘Beauties of the Lady of the Lake;’ and many songs.
L. M. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kemp, John (1763-1812)

​KEMP, JOHN (1763–1812), mathematician, was born at Auchlossen, Aberdeenshire, on 10 April 1763. He graduated M.A. at the university of Aberdeen in 1781, and was elected F.R.S. Edinb. in 1783. In the latter year he emigrated to America, and after making a brief stay in Virginia went to New York, where in 1785 he was appointed teacher, and in 1786 professor, of mathematics in Columbia College. In 1795 he was transferred to the chair of geography, history, and chronology. He received the degree of LL.D. from an American university. Kemp was an intimate friend of De Witt Clinton, mayor of New York, and was frequently consulted by him on municipal business. In 1810 he visited Lake Erie, and in advance of the surveys pronounced the projected canal to be entirely practicable. He died in New York on 15 Nov. 1812.
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Kemp, William (fl.1590)

1904 Errata appended.
​KEMP or KEMPE, WILLIAM (fl. 1590), writer on education, matriculated in June 1578 as a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, whence he migrated to Trinity Hall (B.A. in 1580 and M.A. in 1584). He appears to have settled at Plymouth, and as early as 1581 was acting as master of the grammar school there at a yearly salary of 20l. He seems to have held the post till 1604–5. In 1587 he issued ‘A Dutiful Invective against the most Haynous Treasons of Ballard and Babington: with other their Adherents latelie executed. Together with the Horrible Attempts and Actions of the Q. of Scottes; and the Sentence pronounced against her at Fodderingay. Newlie compiled and set foorth in English verse. For a New Yeares gifte to all loyall English Subjects, by W. Kempe,’ London, 1587, 4to; dedicated to George Barne, lord mayor of London (Brit. Mus.). A tract dealing with the execution of Babington and his associates, entitled ‘The Censure of a Loyal Subject,’ 1587, 4to, has been assigned to Kemp; it is by George Whetstone.
Kemp was author of two educational works, both of which are now very rare; copies are in the British Museum. The earlier was entitled ‘The Education of Children in learning. Declared by the Dignitie, Utilitie, and Method thereof,’ London, 1588, 4to; it was dedicated to William Hawkins (d. 1589) [q. v.], mayor of Plymouth. The second was ‘The Art of Arithmeticke in Whole Numbers and Fractions. … Written in Latin by P. Ramus and translated into English by William Kempe,’ London, by Richard Field for Robert Dextar, 1592. This was dedicated to Sir Francis Drake, and verses by ‘A. W.’ in honour of Drake precede Kemp's translation.
It is possible that the Plymouth schoolmaster may be the ‘Kemp’ mentioned in ‘Theses Martinianæ,’ 1589 (sig. D, iii. v.), as one of the pamphleteers in behalf of the bishops against the puritans in the Martin Mar-Prelate controversy.
S. L.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Heatherington, Alexander

​HEATHERINGTON, ALEXANDER (d. 1878), mining agent, opened in 1867 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the ‘International Mining Agency,’ with which was associated the ‘Canadian Mines Bureau’ at 30 Moorgate Street, London. He also started at Halifax a monthly paper entitled the ‘Mining Gazette,’ the first number of which appeared on 10 Jan. 1868. He was a fellow of the Geological Society, and a clever statistician. He compiled:
* ‘The Gold Yield of Nova Scotia, compiled from corrected official records,’ 8vo, London, 1860–9, continued from 1870 to 1874 as ‘The Mining Industries of Nova Scotia.’
* ‘A Practical Guide for Tourists, Miners, and Investors, and all persons interested in the development of the Gold Fields of Nova Scotia,’ 8vo, Montreal, 1868.
* ‘A Plea for the Gold Industry of Nova Scotia,’ 8vo, London (1874).
Heatherington died at Toronto on 8 March 1878 (Geolog. Mag. new ser. v. 336).
[Heatherington's Works.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Heaton, Mary Margaret

​HEATON, Mrs. MARY MARGARET (1836–1883), writer on art, was the eldest daughter of James Keymer, a silk-printer, and of his wife Margaret, a sister of Samuel Laman Blanchard [q. v.] Her father was an intimate friend of Douglas Jerrold and other literary men. In 1863 she married Charles William Heaton, professor of chemistry. She died on 1 June 1883. Her first published works consisted of graceful verses for children, written to the designs of Oscar Pletsch; but, though these were very successful, it was to her writings upon art that she owed her reputation. In 1869 appeared her ‘Masterpieces of Flemish Art,’ and in 1870 her ‘Life of Albrecht Dürer,’ the first separate life of that artist published in England. Her extensive reading specially qualified her for dealing with the times in which Dürer lived, and her knowledge of German enabled her to make a more complete and accurate translation of his journal than had appeared before. The success of the book was immediate and lasting, and procured for her the acquaintance of Dr. Charles Appleton [q. v.], the first editor of the ‘Academy,’ to which review she was a very frequent contributor from its commencement till a short time before her death. Her ‘Concise History of Painting’ (1873) is the most readable and comprehensive of all short works of the kind, a new edition of which was in 1888 added to Bohn's ‘Artists' Library.’ She also prepared a new edition of Allan Cunningham's ‘Lives of British Painters,’ and wrote several new biographies and some of the most important articles in the new edition of Bryan's ‘Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.’
[Academy, June 1883; private information.]
C. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Heath, Thomas

Thomas Heth in the ODNB.
​HEATH, THOMAS (fl. 1583), mathematician, born in London, was admitted probationer fellow of All Souls, Oxford, in 1567, and proceeded B.A. 1569, and M.A. 1573 (Oxf. Univ. Reg., Oxf. Hist. Soc., i. 270). Wood dates his master's degree in 1579 (Fasti, i. 213). Heath won considerable repute for his knowledge of astronomy and physics, and denounced the astrological predictions of Richard Harvey [q. v.] in his ‘Manifest and Apparent Confutation of an Astrological Discourse lately published to the discomfort (without cause) of the weak and simple sort.’ With that ‘Confutation’ was bound up his ‘Brief Prognostication or Astronomical Prediction of the Conjunction of the two superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter, which shall be in 1583, April 29,’ London, 1583. Both parts were dedicated to Sir George Carey, ‘knight marshal of the queen's household.’ Heath was a friend of John Dee [q. v.] and Thomas Allen (1542–1632) [q. v.]
[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), i. 498; Tanner, p. 409.]
R. E. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Heaton, Clement

​HEATON, CLEMENT (1824–1882), glass-painter and decorator, son of James Heaton, a Wesleyan minister, was born at Bradford, Wiltshire, in 1824. He spent his early years in commerce, but occupied his leisure with drawing. The so-called Gothic revival encouraged him in his twenty-sixth year to begin business at Warwick as a glass-painter and designer. Shortly afterwards he came to London and founded the firm of Heaton & Butler. Though chiefly occupied with glass-painting, he gave the initiative to a new and extensively adopted style of church-decoration. This was essentially Gothic in style, but he combined his own original conceptions with carefully studied motives from natural history, heraldry, early Christian symbolism, &c. He made great use of line-decoration, and as his colouring improved by practice, he acquired a peculiar style, which was much admired at the time. He made many experiments to insure permanent and trustworthy colours for glass-painting and mural decoration, but they were checked by his sudden death in 1882. Among his principal works, many of which were carried out in conjunction with Sir Arthur Blomfield as architect, were the decoration of the chapel at Trinity College, Cambridge, Eaton Hall, the town halls at Rochdale and Manchester, the Mansion House and Merchant Venturers' Hall at Bristol, and churches at Banbury, All Saints, Ascot, West Newton, and Sandringham.
[Private information.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dolben, William (d.1631)

​DOLBEN, WILLIAM (d. 1631), prebendary of Lincoln, bishop designate, came of a family long seated at Segrwyd in Denbighshire, but was born at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the only son of John Dalbin or Dolbin of that town, by his wife Alice, daughter of Richard Myddelton of Denbigh, and sister of Sir Thomas Myddelton of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, and of the famous Sir Hugh Myddelton. He was educated on the foundation of Westminster, whence he passed to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1603. He was author of Latin elegiacs in ‘Musa Hospitalis Ecclesiæ Christi Oxon. in adventum Jacobi Regis, Annæ Reginæ, Henrici principis ad eandem Ecclesiam,’ 4to, Oxford, 1605. He was instituted rector of Stanwick, Northamptonshire, 8 Nov. 1623, and on the same day to the rectory of Benefield in the same county (Bridges, Northamptonshire, ed. Whalley, ii. 195, 398). On 31 Aug. 1629, being then D.D., he became prebendary of Caistor in the church of Lincoln (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, ii. 128), a preferment which he owed to the lord keeper, Bishop Williams, whose niece he had married. Dolben died in September 1631, and was buried at Stanwick on the 19th of that month (parish register). He was so beloved by his parishioners that during his last illness they ploughed and sowed his glebe at their own expense, in order that his widow might have the benefit of the crops. In his will, dated 1 Sept. and proved 25 Oct. 1631, he left 20l. to the town of Haverfordwest ‘to be added to the legacy of my cosen, William Middleton’ (reg. in P. C. C. 105, St. John). By his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Hugh Williams of Coghwillan, Carnarvonshire, he left three sons: John [q. v.], afterwards archbishop of York; William, who became a judge of the king's bench; and Rowland, a ‘sea-officer,’ and two daughters.
His great-grandson, Sir John Dolben [q. v.], when sending some account of the family to Thomas Wotton in 1741, writes: ‘I have heard my father often say yt his grandfather, Dr. William Dolben, was nominated to the bishoprick of Gloster, but yt upon his falling extreamly ill the instruments were suspended till he died’ (Addit. MS. 24120, f. 255 b.) Gloucester, however, was held by Dr. Godfrey Goodman from 1624 until 1640. It is most likely that Dolben was to have been bishop of Bangor, to which see his relative, Dr. David Dolben [q. v.], was consecrated on 4 March 1631–2.
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dolben, William (d.1694)

​DOLBEN, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1694) judge, second son of the Rev. William Dolben D.D. [q. v.], rector of Stanwick, Northamptonshire, by Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Williams of Coghwillan, Carnarvonshire and niece of Archbishop Williams [q. v.] (lord keeper 1621-5), was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1647-8, and called to the bar 1655. He recived the degree of M.A. at Oxford in 1665, on the occasion of incorporation ad eundem of the Earl of Manchester, whose secretary he was. In 1672 he was elected a bencher of his inn, and in 1676 recorder of London, and knighted. He took the degree of serjeant-at-law in 1677, and shortly afterwards was appointed king's serjeant. Archbishop Sheldon made him steward of the see of Canterbury—a post which he resigned in 1678, when Roger North succeeded him. On 4 April 1678 he opened the case for the crown on the trial of the Earl of Pembroke by his peers in Westminster Hall for the murder of Nathaniel Cony. The earl, who had quarreled with Cony in a tavern and brutally kicked him to death, was found guilty of manslaughter. On 23 Oct. 1678 Dolben was created a puisne judge of the king's bench. In this capacity he helped to try many persons suspected of complicity in the supposed popish plot, among others Evelyn's friend Sir George Wakeman, on of the physicians to the queen (Evelyn, Diary, 18 July 1679), Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1680), and Edward Fitzharris and ​Sir Miles Stapleton (1681). Luttrell (Relations of State Affairs, i. 255) writes under date April 1683: 'This vacation, just before the term, Mr. Justice Dolben, one of his majesty's justices of the king's bench, had his quietus sent him; many think the occasion of his removal is because he is taken to be a person not well affected to the quo warranto against the charter of the city of London.' He was reinstated on 11 March 1688-9. He appears to have been a zealous protestant, and indisposed to the toleration of the Romanists, Roger North describes him as 'a man of good parts . . . of a humour, retired, morose, and very insolent.' When a judge, North says he proved 'an arrant peevish old snarler,' and 'used to declare for the populace.' He died of apoplexy on 25 Jan. 1694, and was buried in the Temple Church. John Dolben Lloyd's [q. v.], archbishop of York, was his brother.
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dolman, Charles

​DOLMAN, CHARLES (1807–1863), catholic publisher, born at Monmouth 20 Sept. 1807, was the only son of Charles Dolman, surgeon of that town, by his wife Mary Frances, daughter of Thomas Booker, a catholic publisher in London. Charles's father died in the year of his birth. His widowed mother in 1818 married as her second husband Mr. Thomas Buckley. Dolman was educated at the Benedictine college of St. Gregory's, Downside, near Bath. On leaving Downside he studied architecture for a while at Preston in Lancashire, under the guidance of Joseph Aloysius Hansom, the inventor of the two-wheeled cabs of London. He was invited by the Bookers to join their establishment at 61 New Bond Street. In 1840 he entered into partnership with his cousin, Thomas Booker, and the title of the firm became Booker & Dolman. Not long afterwards the property passed entirely into Dolman's possession. On 12 Jan. 1841 he married Frances, daughter of James and Apollonia Coverdale of Ingatestone Hall in Essex, by whom he had an only son, the Very Rev. Charles Vincent Dolman of Hereford, canon of Newport. In 1838 Charles Dolman started a new series of the ‘Catholic Magazine,’ which came to a close in 1844. In March 1845 he established ‘Dolman's Magazine,’ which was continued until the close of 1849. His energies were afterwards directed to the publication of works of a costly character, many of them richly illustrated, and several still highly valued as specimens of typography. Conspicuous among these were Rock's ‘Church of our Fathers,’ Kenelm Digby's ‘Broad Stone of Honour,’ and Barker's ‘Three Days of Wensleydale.’ In 1850 Dolman completed the publication of the fifth edition, in 10 vols. 8vo, of Lingard's ‘History of England,’ containing the annalist's last corrections. The expensive character of the works issued from the press by Dolman involved him at last in embarrassment. In 1858 he had exhausted all his capital, and tried to form his business into a limited liability company, called the Catholic Bookselling and Publishing Company. Dolman withdrew to Paris, where, with the help of friends, he set up a small business at No. 64 Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. His health, always delicate, gave way, and he died there on 31 Dec. 1863, his widow dying in her sixty-sixth year, on 2 March 1885, at Erith.
C. K.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dolle, William

Walter Dolle in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
​DOLLE, WILLIAM (fl. 1670–1680), engraver, was employed by the booksellers in engraving portraits and frontispieces. His engravings are weakly and stiffly executed, and show little merit or originality. The most creditable among them is the frontispiece to Theophilus de Garencières's translation of Nostradamus's ‘Prophecies’ (1672), which shows the author seated at his writing-table, while above are portraits in ovals of his friend Nathaniel Parker of Gray's Inn, and of Nostradamus himself. In the first edition (1670) of Izaak Walton's ‘Lives’ the portraits of Sir Henry Wotton and Richard Hooker are by Dolle, the former being a reduced copy of an engraving by Lombart, and the latter of one by Faithorne. In the ‘Reliquiæ Wottonianæ’ (1672) there are portraits of Sir Henry Wotton, Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, and George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, by Dolle, the last named a poor reduction from Delff's engraving. A small portrait of John Milton by Dolle, a reduced copy of one by Faithorne, is prefixed to his ‘Artis Logicæ Institutio’ (1672), ‘Poems on Several Occasions’ (1673), and the small 8vo edition of ‘Paradise Lost’ (1674). Other portraits engraved by Dolle are those of John Cosin, bishop of Durham, Robert Sanderson, bishop of Lincoln, Dr. Mark Frank, master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, Dr. Francis Glisson, Samuel Botley, shorthand writer, and others. They are mostly prefixed as frontispieces to their works, and are to be found separately in the collection of the print room at the British Museum.
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Grant, James (1706-1778)

​GRANT, JAMES (1706–1778), Scotch catholic prelate, born at Wester Boggs, in the Enzie, Banffshire, in July 1706, was admitted into the Scotch College at Rome 16 Jan. 1725-6, and ordained priest in 1733. On his return to Scotland in 1734 he was appointed to the mission at Brae-Lochaber, to assist the Rev. John Macdonald. Afterwards he was removed to the Isle of Barra. In the spring of 1746 some ships of war landed some men there who threatened to desolate the whole island if the priest were not delivered up to them. Grant surrendered himself and was carried prisoner to Mingarry Castle, on the western coast, where he was detained for some weeks. He was then conveyed to the prison at Inverness, and for several weeks was chained by the leg to an Irish officer in the service of Spain, who had come over to help the Pretender. In 1747 he was liberated on bail, and in the following year he was stationed at Rathven, Banffshire. Afterwards he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Alexander Smith, vicar-apostolic of the lowland district; papal briefs nominating him bishop of Sinita in partibus were issued 21 Feb. 1755, and he was consecrated at Edinburgh on 13 Nov. in that year. On the death of Bishop Smith in 1766, he became, jure successionis, vicar-apostolic of the lowland district. He died at Aberdeen on 3 Dec. 1778.
[Brady's Episcopal Succession, iii. 460; Gordon's Catholic Mission in Scotland, p. 11; London and Dublin Orthodox Journal, 1837, iv. 84.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Grant, James (1840-1885)

​GRANT, JAMES (1840–1885), Scottish antiquary, born in 1840 in Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, was educated at Aberdeen University, where he took the degree of M.A. He obtained the Grant bursary, and studied law at Edinburgh with a view to the Scottish bar; but his grotesque dwarfish figure and his odd voice making success in this wellnigh unattainable, he devoted himself to studies connected with Scottish antiquities.
For a number of years he acted as assistant to Professor Cosmo Innes (whose books owe a good deal to him), and did much work under John Hill Burton and Professor Masson, in preparing for publication the Scots privy council records (Register of the Privy Council, introduction (Burton), vol. i. p. liv; introduction (Masson), vol. iii. p. lxxxviii). The work by which Grant deserves to be remembered, however, is his 'History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland' (in two volumes: the first, on the burgh schools, has alone been published (1876); the second volume exists in a completed or almost completed state). The special excellence of this work is that it is largely based on hitherto unpublished sources, which the author collected with vast labour and patience. It is full of curious and minute details, which shed light, not only on the educational, but on the social history of Scotland. The book excited little notice when it appeared (a neglect which the author felt somewhat keenly); but it is of permanent value, and it is almost impossible to suppose that it can ever be superseded by a more learned or exhaustive treatise. Grant also wrote a 'History of the University of Edinburgh' (unpublished). He was elected a F.S.A. (Scotl.), and enjoyed the friendship and esteem of David Laing and other distinguished Scottish scholars. He died at his brother's house, 114 Bell Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 9 Aug. 1885, and was buried on the 13th in his native glen.
[Scotsman, 10 and 14 Aug. 1885; Inverness Courier, 13 Aug. 1885; Memoir of Cosmo Innes (Edinburgh, 1874), p. 78; personal recollections.]<
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