“ Kerney was a man of remarkable linguistic attainments, and had an unrivalled knowledge of old books and MSS., both Oriental and European, to which Quaritch's catalogues bear ample testimony, He was a man of shy and retiring disposition, but was known and much respected by all the leading book collectors of England and America. ”

“ Philpott) . After serving curacies at All Saints', Leamington (1869–70) , nd Edgbaston (1870–71) , he was nominated by the trustees in 1871 to the vicarage of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. Bishop Philpott presented him to the vicarage of St. John Baptist, Leamington, in 1875, and he became vicar of Kenilworth on the nomination of the Lord Chancellor in 1882, where he stayed only a short time. His last donative vicarage of Old Dalby, Leicestershire, which he held from 1889 to 1892. n the appointment of the present chaplain of the Savoy, in 1894, Mr. ”