William Kaye (priest)

Portrait of Revd. William Kaye

William Frederick John Kaye (13 November 1822 – 9 June 1913) was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth.[1]

Kaye was born in Cambridge, the only son of John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln, and Eliza Wortlock.[2][3] He was educated at Eton and Balliol. He was ordained in 1846[4] and became the incumbent at Riseholme. He was Archdeacon of Lincoln[5] from 1863 until his death in Lincoln, aged 90.[6]

Kaye married Mary, daughter of Bishop John Jackson.[7]

  1. ^ "Kaye, Ven. William Frederick John, (died 9 June 1913), Archdeacon and Canon of Lincoln from 1863; Rector of Riseholme from 1846". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  2. ^ Kaye, John (1888). Works of John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln: Miscellaneous works with memoir of the author. Rivingtons. p. 5. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  3. ^ Venables, Edmund (1892). "Kaye, John (1783-1853)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. pp. 252–253.
  4. ^ "Ordinations. Lincoln." The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, 22 December 1846; p. 4; Issue 22792
  5. ^ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory. London, John Phillips, 1900
  6. ^ "Archdeacon Kaye." The Times (London, England), Thursday, 10 July 1913; p. 10; Issue 40260.
  7. ^ Bernard Burke (1865). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Harrison and sons. p. 1218.