John Kidd (1775–1851): Doctor and author of medical treatises. Educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (matric. 1793, BA 1797). A friend of Southey’s during his time at Oxford, and possibly a school friend as well.
John Kenyon (1784–1856): Kenyon was a very wealthy man. On the death of his father, John Kennion (d. c. 1792), he inherited a share in the sugar-producing estate of Chester in Trelawny, Jamaica, and the two hundred enslaved persons who worked the estate. Though he was born in the West Indies he left as a child and was educated at Charterhouse and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He lived mostly in the West Country and then London, though he also travelled a great deal. Kenyon’s first wife, Susannah Wright, died in Naples in 1818 and he married Caroline Curties (d. 1835) in 1821.
Thomas W. Kelly (b. c. 1800): Poet, born in London of Irish parentage. His works included Myrtle Leaves; A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Amatory (1824). He briefly corresponded with Southey in 1827 after he found one of the latter’s manuscript letters to a friend, now deceased, in a book he had purchased. He offered to return it, but Southey told him to keep the letter, on the condition that it was not published during his lifetime.
Montague Henry Kelly (1773–1838): Son of Captain Redmond Kelly (d. 1798), an Irish soldier who lived in Dean’s Yard, Westminster in later life and sent his three sons to Westminster School. Montague Henry Kelly attended Westminster School from 1786 to 1791, where he was a friend of Southey’s. Kelly pursued a Naval career from 1791 onwards, reaching the rank of Commander in 1830, but was often in debt – he spent the years 1806–1809 in the Fleet prison. In 1801 he eloped with the sixteen–year old Eliza Smith (1785–1857), daughter of the painter, John Raphael Smith (1751–1812; DNB).
H. S. Jensort (dates unknown): He was based in or near Liverpool, but little is known of his background or occupation. In 1821, in response to Southey’s The Life of Wesley (1820), he wrote to Southey offering to lend him papers by John Wesley (1703–1791; DNB) in his possession.
Writer. Born in Huntspill, Somerset, son of a village shopkeeper, John Jennings, and his wife Elizabeth Fear. Educated locally and at North Petherton School. Apprenticed to a Bristol apothecary in 1786. He contributed poems to the European Magazine and in 1794 published The Times, a satire. Jennings moved to London shortly after his marriage to Charlotte Sawier, probably the only daughter of Southey’s landlady Mary Sawier, in 1795.
John Jebb (1775–1833): Irish clergyman, who rose to be Church of Ireland Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe 1823–1833. He was a close friend of Robert Inglis. In 1818 Jebb sent Southey a copy of the second edition of his Sermons, on Subjects Chiefly Practical. This initiated a correspondence on religious and political matters that lasted until Jebb’s death.
Ann Jardine (dates unknown): Widow of David Jardine (1766–1797), Minister of the Trim Street Unitarian Chapel, Bath. She was the daughter of George Webster of Hampstead. The Jardines owned a small estate at Pickwick, near Bath.
David Jardine (1794–1860): The eldest child of David Jardine (1766–1797), Minister of the Trim Street Unitarian Chapel, Bath. Jardine was an undergraduate at the University of Glasgow and Southey helped his education by lending him books. Jardine graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1813 and became a barrister in 1823. He was appointed Recorder of Bath in 1837 and a police magistrate at Bow Street, London 1839–1860. He also wrote extensively on legal history.
Alexander Jardine (d. 1799): Army officer and author. He was appointed to the post of Consul in Galicia in 1791. He was a friend of William Godwin and Joel Barlow (1754–1812; DNB), and his writings included Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal &c. (1788). He and Southey met during the latter’s 1795–1796 visit to the Iberian peninsula. He figures in both Southey’s correspondence from this period and in Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal (1797).
