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 Joseph Kenny, J.P., Kingsmeadow House, Waterford, and Elizabeth Williams, Drumleigh. Educ..: Christian Brothers' School, Waterford; French College, Blackrock; Germany; Senior Scholarship, Blackrock College. Appointed Student Interpreter in Japan, 1880; Registrar and Interpreter of H.M.'s Court for Japan, until 1895; Vice-Consul, Tokyo, 1896; Barrister Gray's Inn, 1896; Consul for Hakodate and Niigata, and Consul for Tainan, Formosa, 1896; H.M.'s acting Commissioner and Consul-General for the Hawaiian Islands at Honolulu, 1898; present post, since 1902. Recreations: Sports, exploration. Address: British Consulate General, Manila; and Kingsmeadow House, Wateiford, Ireland. 

 KENT, Maurice Morton (BATANG PADANG), Federated Malay States Civil Service; b. July 24, 1867. Assistant Surveyor, Straits Settlements, 1886-89; Surveyor on Lahuk River, British North Borneo, 1889-1891; Acting District Surveyor, Batang Padang, 1898. Address: Batang Padang, Perak, Federated Malay States. 

 KENT, Percy Horace Braund (TIEN TSIN), Barrister-at-Law; b. Sept. 11, 1876; m. 1901, Anna Mary, y. d. of late Rev. Henry Kingdon Simcox, of Harborne House, sometime Rector of Eweline, Oxon. Educ.: Rugby; Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Club: National Liberal, Whitehall. Address: Tientsin, North China. 

 KER, William Pollock (NANKING), H.B.M. Consul. Appointed Student Interpreter in China, July 26, 1888; 1st class Assistant, Sept. 27, 1897; acting Consul at Soochow, 1897 to 1898; acting Vice-Consul at Shanghai, 1898 to 1899; employed as Assistant in Chinese Secretary's Office, Peking, 1899; promoted Vice-Consul at Pagoda Island, Feb. 24, 1900; was at Peking during siege, 1900; acting Consul at Wuhu, 1901 to 1902; promoted Consul at Wuhu, April 5, 1902; called to Bar at Middle Temple, June 24, 1903; Consul at Nanking, 1906. Decorations: China Medal and Clasp. Address: H.B.M. Consulate, Nanking, China. 

 KERFOOT, James (SHANGHAI), Engineer and Mill Manager; b. 1868. Educ.: Dnkinfleld Old Chapel School; Dukintield Technica1 School; Manchester Technical School. Trained as mill mechanic and departmental foreman in manufacture of cotton, wool and silk, 1882-90; teacher in those subjects at evening classes, Dnkinfield Technical School: 1st honours, Scholar in Cotton Manufacture, City Guilds, London; won the Koch Scholarship; Spinning and Carding Master and Assistant Manager at Newton Moor Cotton Spinning Co., Ltd., Dukinfield; Head Manager at Messrs. John Leech and Sons, Grosvenor St. Mills, Stalybridge, 1891-96; Manager and Engineer in Chief of Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Ltd., Shanghai, since 1897; member of Council of Shanghai Architects' and Kngineers' Society; Past President of Association of Lancastrians in China.