Herbert Kynaston

The second son of Roger Kynaston, by his marriage to Georgiana, third daughter of Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet, governor of Madras, he was born at Warwick in 1809 and educated at Westminster School from 1823.

He obtained the college prize for Latin verse (subject, Scythae Nomades) in 1829, took a first-class in Classics in 1831, and was appointed tutor and Greek reader in 1836.

[1] He died at 31 Alfred Place West, South Kensington, on 26 October 1878, and was buried at Friern Barnet on 2 November.

[1] Kynaston was a noted composer of Latin verse: he was the author of poetical compositions in praise of Dean Colet, the founder of St. Paul's School, which were produced each year at the apposition.

[1] Also a writer and translator of hymns, Kynaston did work which Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology calls "either strangely overlooked" or "unknown to most modern editors".

Besides a number of minor pieces in pamphlet form, including Coleti Torquis, 1867, Comitiorum Coletinorum Intermissio, 1871, Missiones Coletinæ, 1873, Coleti Sepulcrum, 1873, Kynaston also wrote a long series of Latin hymns in the Guardian, the last of which, entitled Ichthyōn katalogos, was recited at the "Winter Speeches" of 1876, when Kynaston retired from office.