J.W. (2) Kaye

J.W. (2) Kaye FRSL
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Born	1840
Residence	High Bentham Lancashire [A3] 56 Grosvenor Park, Camberwell, N. [1869 list] [in A6:2]: High Bentham crossed out, Newton nr Clitheroe, Yorkshire added Goose-gate, Nottingham {1872}
Society Membership membership ASL, AI ordinary fellow left 1872.03 last listed elected_AI 1868 elected_ASL 1868.06.16 societies Royal Society of Literature

Notes

House Notes

proposed 1868.06.02
letter rtd 1869 [A6:2]
originally had G.W. Kaye, perhaps misread from A3; list 1869.08.01 has J.W., FRSL, and address as noted. Am assuming refers to this same person - is he the same as the J.W. Kaye who was FESL?
number after name to distinguish from another with same name

Notes From Elsewhere

Rev. J.W. Kaye
William Kaye was born February 20th 1840 of parents who were members of the Society of Friends. His father was a direct descendant of the Kayes of Totties Hall, Wooldale, near Holmfirth, Yorkshire. The subject of this notice was educated at the Friends' School, Rawdon, near Leeds, afterwards at Spring Street Academy, Huddersfield, and subsequently by private tutors at home. His favourite study was the languages. From his youth he was accustomed to write verses, and his parents treasured up many a scrap of paper on which his early rhymes were written. Mr Kaye's first scholastic appointment was that of French master at Tickhill Academy near Bawtry. He afterwards commenced a private school at Crossland Moor, near Huddersfield. In December 1860, he was married to Miss Whittenbury, daughter of Mr W.C. Whittenbury, and grand-daughter of Dr Whittenbury, an eminent physician of Liverpool. About this time Mr Kaye began to have a strong desire to enter the ministry, and removed from Crossland Moor to Nottingham. During his residence in Nottingham, Mr Kaye attended the theological lectures of the Congregational Institute, for about eighteen months. He was then induced to undertake the management of a private school at Bentham. The desire for the ministry still followed him, and he determined to enter St Bees' College. After passing the full course of study he was ordained by the Bishop of Brechin, to the curacy of St Mary Magdelene, Dundee in 1873. In the following year the reverend gentleman removed to the curacy of St Mary, Ilkeston; and in 1876 he became Curate of St Philip's, Bradford Road, Manchester. Here he remained for six years, when he was preferred to the Rectory of Derrybrusk, near Enniskillen.
Mr Kaye has been a contributor to various magazines and newspapers writing over noms de guerres. Being diffident and distrustful of his own genius he has hesitated to collect his fugitive pieces, and issue them in book-form. At the urgent desire of many of his friends Mr Kaye, at no far distant period, hopes to issue a volume of his verse.