Kaye, Sir John William, historian of English India, an officer in the Bengal Artillery, retired in 1841; in 1856 entered the East India Company's service in England, and was subsequently a secretary in the Government India Office; he wrote “History of the Sepoy War 1857-58,” and “Essays of an Optimist” (1814‒1876).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kay, John * Kean, Charles John