KEMPTEN, Icemplan, a city in Swabia, Bavaria, about 80 miles southwest of Munich by which it is connected by rail. Old and new Kempten were united in 1803 to form one cor poration. The town contains the usual pic turesque buildings of a Bavarian city of its size and age. ISempten is quite a commercial and manufacturing place and possesses fac tories for the produce of machinery, cotton goods, mathematical and other instruments, matches, paper, woodenware, cheese, thread, hosiery, powder and firearms. Pop. 25,000.
KEN, or KENN, Thomas, English bishop and hymnologist: b. Great or Little Berkham stead, Hertfordshire, July 1637; d. Longleat, Wiltshire, 19 March 1711. He was educated at Winchester School, graduated from New College, Oxford and became successively do mestic chaplain to Bishop Morley(1665); rector of Brightstone, Isle of Wight (1667); and prebend of Winchester (1669). He spent five years traveling on the Continent with his nephew, the younger Izaak Walton, living prin cipally at Rome (1675-80), and accompanied Mary, Princess of Orange, to Holland, as do mestic chaplain. In 1680 he was appointed
chaplain to Charles II, attended him in his last illness, and was nominated by him to the bishopric of Bath and Wells (1684). He suf fered deprivation with other non-jurors (q.v.) on the accession of William of Orange, for maintaining allegiance to James II (1691). He was one of the lights of the English Church in one of the darkest periods of English social life, and by his zeal and devotion did much to maintain the standard of Christian conduct, his personal example of goodness being backed by learning, taste and breadth of sympathy. His theological and devotional writings are princi pally valuable for the personality with which they are connected, but his famous 'Doxology,' as well as the 'Morning Hymn,' beginning with my soul," and the 'Evening Hymn' have won him imperishable fame as a guide and inspirer of Christian devotion. Consult 'Dic tionary of National Biography> (Vol. XXX, London 1892) ; Plumptre, Dean, 'Life of Bishop Ken' (London 1890).