William Kaye (priest)

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]

Portrait of Revd. William Kaye

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]