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E. Kaim
Tenant. Photographer.
With effect from 15/11/1847 he took over the photographic studio.
He described himself as ‘Herr Kaim from Dresden’ .

He paid £1 5s 0d per week from 13/12/1847, occasionally paying two months at one time.
He stayed until late in 1848 when he paid £5 for 16 weeks rent up to 18/12/1848. (Heathcote, 1991).
See also –– Joseph Whitlock and Whitlock & Thompson.

Professor S. Keat
A subscription to his Dialect Dictionary was taken at £1 1s 0d (6/6/1896).
This seems to have been taken over by Professor J. Wright and further payments of £1 1s 0d made (6/7/1897, 1/11/1898, 13/6/1899)

Thomas Keeley
Address: Woodthorpe.
Subscriber: 1/11/1869 to 2/12/1878.

Mr Keep
Picture restorer.
He was recommended by A.J. Sulley in connection with the portrait of the Duke of Richmond.
His estimate was £15 to £20 (7/5/1907).

Joseph Keep
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 25/4/1817.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).
Newsroom subscriber: 1831.

Kelly’s
They supplied the Library with various directories of Nottingham and London between 1899 and 1915.

Frederick Kendall & Co
Plumbers.
Address: 9 Forman Street (Wright, 1915-16).
They did repairs at the Library on occasions between May 1901 (£4 13s 0d) and January 1905.
See –– W.E. Middleton (photographer).

John Kendall
Subscriber: 22/6/1820 to 7/11/1842.
He bought an original share.
On 1/8/1842 his share was declared to be forfeited and to be sold.

Richard Kendall
Address: Castlegate.
Subscriber: 7/9/1846 to 1/10/1849.

George Kennick
Address: Thurgarton.
Subscriber: 6/4/1858 to 3/8/1863.
His share was forfeited and sent for auction on 3/8/1863.

George Kenrick, Esq.
Decayed (Retired) farmer.
Address: The Ropewalk.
Subscriber: 1/4/1890 to 14/1/1902.
Share number: 125 (certificate: 9/2/1901).
Deceased.

Kerslake
Bookseller.
A minute of 5/1/1857 states that Robert’s Holy Land could be bought from Kerslake at 25 guineas and it seems that it had in fact been purchased in the previous month.
On 4/9/1882 a box for this valuable work was commissioned.

This was a six volume set of tinted engravings of the Holy Land by David Roberts (1796-1864) and Louis Hughe published between 1842 and 1849.
The Bromley House copy was sold in 1926 and in 1984 a copy fetched £60,000.

Mr Kewney
On 27/5/1834 he paid £4 5s 0d for the Globe. (Newsroom Subscription Book 1831-1834)

C.G. Kewney
Subscriber: 2/3/1835 to 4/3/1844.

Jonas Kewney
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 2/3/1835.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).

Mr Kidd
The sum of 2s 6d was received from him on 6/6/1908 and recorded in the ‘Special’ column of the Accounts Book.
Presumably this was a share transfer registration fee possibly in respect of his wife's share (see below).

Mrs Annie Sarah (or Sarah Ann) Kidd
Wife of F.W. Kidd.
Address: The Hollies, Burton Joyce.
Subscriber: 5/2/1907 to 1/3/1910.
Share number: 150 (counterfoil  9/4/1907).

G.B. Kidd
Subscriber: 2/1/1894 yo 6/11/1894 and 5/1/1897 to 1/5/1899.

William Kiddier
Brush maker.

Addresses:
[Kelly, 1904; Wright, 1910-11]

12 South Parade (tel. no.: 1600 in 1910)
23-25 Sneinton Street (tel. no.: 671 in 1910)
home:  4 Victoria Villas, Sneinton Dale (1904)
19 Zulla Road, Mapperley (1910)

 ; ; ;

Inside the slim volume of
Sonnets by William Kiddier,
published by
Cooke & Vowles
of Nottingham
in 1907
[Bromley House: D1666]
is a letter.		 WILLIAM KIDDIER
    12 SOUTH PARADE                      
         NOTTINGHAM

     The Librarian
                   Bromley House
                             Library

     One copy of
              "Sonnets"
               with the author's
                             compliments.

July 13 - 1908.


W. Kiddier was secretary to the Nottingham Atelier at 8 Clumber Chambers, Thurland Street [Kelly, 1904].

John Thomas Kiddier was also a brush maker at 39 St Chad's Road, Carlton Road.


Mrs Killingley
Address: Lenton Terrace
Subscriber: 7/12/1829 to 3/3/1845.
Deceased.
See –– William Parsons' Diary.

Thomas Killingly
Assistant rent collector and collector of private improvement works;
or
George Killingly
Accountant.
Address: Swan Yard, Long Row East. [Post Office, 1876]
One of them collected District Rate payments:
£7 7s 8d 1/12/1878
£9 4s 7d 1/9/1879
£8 6s 3d 5/1/1880


Thomas Owen Killingley
Subscriber: 7/7/1823 to 3/10/1825.

P.S. King & Son
They supplied books at a cost of £8 4s 0d in July 1897.

Rev A.C. Kingdon
Address: Trinity Church.
The Standfast Ledger records one borrowing on 31/7/1858.

F. Kingham
He was paid £2 15s 0d in November 1883 for unspecified services.

James Kinsey
He is mentioned in the transfer deed of 1681 for the land surrounding where Bromley House would later be built.
See - John Nevill.

Arthur F. Kirby
Subscriber: 1/10/1877 to 8/8/1881.

B. Kirk
He was Treasurer of the Nottingham Philharmonic Choir which met at Bromley House (Wright, 1894-95).

Edward Kirk
In 1820 he was an applicant for the post of librarian (5/6/1820).

John Kirk
Address: Park Side.
Subscriber: 4/9/1871 to 7/8/1876.
He was known as 'Junior'.
This was a forfeited share from 1852 which he bought for £11 11s 0d on 28/8/1871.

Laurence Kirk
See –– Thomas Lawrence Kirk

Thomas Kirk
Printer.
Address: St Peter’s Gate, Nottingham.

In 1829 he printed The Literary Mousetrap which satirised the Nottingham Literary and Scientific Society which met at Bromley House.

Thomas Lawrence Kirk or possibly Lawrence Kirk
Solicitor.
Address: Sherwood Firs, Mansfield Road or The Firs, Sherwood.
Subscriber: 6/4/1909 (or November 1908) to 1916.
Share number: 48 (counterfoil dated 16/4/1909).
A registration fee of 2s 6d was received from Ainsworth on 6/11/1908 in respect of a share transfer.

He offered £25 per annum to rent a room at Bromley House for use by the Ceramic Society and the Library sent him a letter about this on 8/12/1909.
The Thoroton Society were persuaded to pay this and so took the room. (7/12/1909).   

He was reminded of arrears with his subscription (13/12/1910).

Valentine Kirk
Librarian.
24/7/1818 to 3/4/1821.

He was appointed as assistant librarian on 24/7/1818 and redesignated as a temporary librarian by October 1818 during the illness of William Hardy, then the librarian (30/10/1818). Kirk was confirmed as Librarian on 6/4/1819. He was paid £25 per year but did not receive the quarter of the fines that Hardy had (30/10/1818). Mr and Mrs Hardy continued to use the living accommodation at the Library at least initially after Kirk’s appointment.

He received an extra £5 for attending the Library between 6.30 p.m. and closing time (16/4/1819). He may have worked on the 1819 catalogue but he resigned in May 1820 (1/5/1820) with effect of the end of June. He later became the librarian to the Artizans’ Library after leaving Bromley House.

KirkV-sig-4169
The signature of
Valentine Kirk
[4169]


George Kirkbride
Lace manufacturer.
Address: Fishpond Drive, The Park.
Subscriber: 10/7/1900 (or April 1902) to 1916.
Share number: 126 (certificate: 2/4/1902).
The share was transferred from Isaac Kirkbride.

Isaac Kirkbride
Retired manufacturer.
Address: 17 Radcliffe (or Redcliffe ?) Road.
Subscriber: 7/5/1889 to 10/7/1900 (or 19/3/1901).
Share number: 126.
The share was transferred to George Kirkbride.

Rev John Kirkby
Newsroom subscriber: 1831, 1832.

Mr Kirkland
He bought a book (or books) from the Library for 7s 0d on 2/7/1901.

Kirke White
See –– Henry Kirke White.

Kirke White Centenary Committee
See –– J. Potter Briscoe.

Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
Artist
He was one of England’s finest portrait painters of the times of Charles II and William III.
The Library owns a portrait of the first Duke of Richmond reputedly by him which was placed at auction in 1868.
The picture still hangs on the staircase at Bromley House (2007).

See –– Duke of Richmond, Christie & Manson, Mr Holder and J.L. Thackeray.

Superintendent Knight
On 1/1/1877 he made recommendations about fire buckets.

Sir Arnold I. Knight
Subscriber: 30/3/1859 to 5/3/1866.
On 4/6/1866 he gave books.

Henry Gally Knight, MP (1786-1846)
Gift:
The name of Frank Sibson is also associated with this gift (16/10/1843).
The second series of this work was given on 5/8/1844.
Having studied at Cambridge he travelled extensively in Europe and the Middle East.
He wrote An Architectural Tour in Normandy and Ecclesiastical Architecture in Italy.

He was Member of Parliament for Malton and later for the North Division of Nottinghamshire from 1835 to 1841.
Being without children he left his considerable fortune to the building of churches and the augmentation of church livings. (Mellors, 1924)

See –– William Parsons' Diary.

Thomas Knight
Newsroom subscriber: 1832.

V.F. Knosynski
The Subscriptions Book records that he paid 10s 6d on 18/7/1836 for the use of the Lecture Room at Bromley House for one night.

Charles Knowles
Timber merchant.
Address: Bolsover Gardens, Sherwood.
Subscriber: 7/7/1914 ti 1916.
Share number: 122 (counterfoil dated 16/4/1915).
He attended the General Meeting in 1916.
He was a subscriber to Russell’s History, 1916.

Mrs Recha Kohn
Address: 11 Pelham Crescent, The Park.
Subscriber: 7/5/1895 to 1916.
Share number: 127 (certificate: 9/2/1901).
The share was transferred from J. Kohn (deceased).

Julius Kohn
Subscriber: 1/7/1878 to 7/5/1895.
Deceased.
Share transferred to Mrs Kohn.

Samuel Kowth
Address: Colwick.
Subscriber: 7/3/1825 to 7/3/1825.


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