near Shoalhaven, New South Wales 18 April 1841; went to sea
1856, spent 2 years in the South Sea islands; clerk to James
Lionel Michael, solicitor and author, Sydney 1860; contributed
to Empire and Herald newspapers 1865, clerk in lands department,
N.S.W. 1863, then in colonial secretary’s office, resigned 1869;
journalist Melbourne 1869–73; inspector of forests, N.S.W.;
author of Poems and songs 1862, which he suppressed in 1865; At
Long Bay, Euroclydon, poems. _d._ at the house of the Messrs.
Fagan Bros., Redfern near Sydney 1 Aug. 1882. _Barton’s Poets
of New South Wales_ (1866) _pp._ 192–206; _Sladen’s Australian
poets_ (1888) _p._ 280; _H. Kendall’s Poems_ (1886), _memoir pp.
xi–xvi_.
KENDALL, JOSEPH. Jockey; won the Chester cup on Nancy 1851 when
he weighed only 4 st. 12 lb.; won the Liverpool Grand National
on Jealously 1861; one of the finest horsemen ever seen. _d._ 21
March 1892.
KENDALL, NICHOLAS (1 son of rev. Charles Kendall, V. of Talland,
_d._ 1806). _b._ Tredethy, St. Mabyn 22 Dec. 1800; ed. Trin.
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; sheriff of Cornwall 1847; M.P. East
Cornwall 1852–68; received a piece of plate and £1100 for his
services to county of Cornwall 18 Feb. 1869; police magistrate
of city and garrison of Gibraltar 30 Dec. 1868 to Sep. 1875, an
attempt made to assassinate him March 1873. _d._ Pelynt near
Lostwithiel 8 June 1878.
KENDALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Padstow 1803; in employment of Shepherd
and Gain, woollen drapers, Exeter; a linen draper Queen st.
Exeter; partner in firm of Shepherd, Kendall and Tucker,
woollen drapers, Exeter 1834, made a fortune and retired; mayor
of Exeter 1862 when he contributed to the cost of the Albert
memorial museum; V.P. of Devonshire Assoc. at Exeter meeting
1862; instrumental in building Wonford asylum 1869; fell
down stairs and broke his thigh 25 March, _d._ 6 Summerland,
Heavitree road, Exeter 29 March 1878. _Trans. Devonshire Assoc.
x_ 56–7 (1878).
KENDRICK, EMMA ELEONORA (dau. of Josephus Kendrick, sculptor).
_b._ 1788; a successful miniature painter; miniature painter
to Princess Elizabeth of Hesse Homburg, and to Wm. IV. 1831;
exhibited 84 miniatures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 74 at Suffolk
st. 1811–40; author of Conversations on the art of miniature
painting 1830. _d._ 6 April 1871.
KENDRICK, JAMES (1 son of James Kendrick 1771–1847, M.D.) _b._
Buttermarket st. Warrington 7 Nov. 1809; ed. at Edinb. univ.,
M.D. 1 Aug. 1833; in practice at Warrington 1833 to death; took
charge of the antiquities in Warrington museum 1859; paid for
the excavation of the Roman station at Wilderspool and gave the
remains discovered to the museum; gave 300 books bearing the
Warrington imprint to the library; wrote papers in archæological
journals; author of Cursory remarks on the present epidemick
1832; An account of excavations made at Mote Hill, Warrington
1853; Profiles of Warrington worthies 1853, 2 ed. 1854; A
morning’s ramble in Old Warrington 1855; with William Robson,
Memorials of Dr. Robson of Warrington. _d._ Warrington 6 April
1882. _bur._ Padgate 11 April. His dau. gave his seals and 100
vols. to Warrington museum. _Palatine Note Book_, _ii_ 113–16,
179–80 (1882), _portrait_.
KENEALY, EDWARD VAUGHAN HYDE (son of William Kenealy, merchant).
_b._ Cork 2 July 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840,
LL.B. 1846, LL.D. 1850; called to bar in Ireland 2 Nov. 1840;
barrister G.I. 1 May 1847, disbarred 2 Dec. 1874 for his
libellous articles in The Englishman; ordered to give up his
chambers by the vice chancellor 29 June 1876; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868
to 11 Dec. 1874 when he was removed; bencher of Gray’s inn,
April 1868 to 1 Aug. 1874 when he was disbenched; M.P. Stoke
upon Trent 18 Feb. 1874 to 1880; contested Wednesbury 18 Nov.
1868; contested Stoke, April 1880; prosecuted for cruelty to
Edward Hyde his natural son aged 6, May 1850 and imprisoned for
a month; junior counsel in defence of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley
poisoner 1856; led the prosecution of Overend, Gurney & Co.,
bankers 1869; succeeded serjeant Sleigh as leading counsel for
Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant 1873, conducted the case in
a most outrageous manner, insulting the bench and witnesses,
the jury censured him in a rider to their verdict; started The
Englishman in which he continued to abuse the chief justice and
the solicitor general 11 April 1874; expelled from the mess
of the Oxford circuit 2 April 1874; founded the Magna Charta
association 1874; author of Brallaghan or the Deipnosophists
1845; Goethe, a new pantomime 1850, 3 ed. 1863; Poems and
translations 1864; An introduction to the Apocalypse; E. W.
Montagu, an autobiography, edited by Y. 3 vols. 1869; The trial
at bar of sir R. C. D. Tichborne, Bart. 5 vols. 1875–8; Poetical
works 3 vols. 1875–9; Fo, the third messenger of God 1878. _d._
6 Tavistock sq. London 16 April 1880. _bur._ Hangleton near
Brighton 22 April. _H. G. Gill’s Life and forensic career of
E. V. Kenealy_ (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 161 1873),
_portrait_; _The Englishman 24 April 1880 et seq., a long
memoir_; _G.M. Feb. 1874 pp._ 220–7, _June 1875 pp._ 698–709;
_London Sketch Book_, _Jany. 1874_, _portrait_.
NOTE.--There is on the south-east angle of the south transept of
Chester cathedral a series of twelve corbels with carved subjects
illustrating an allegory, three of these are undoubted likenesses of
the Earl of Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone and Dr. Kenealy.
KENMARE, VALENTINE BROWNE, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of
Kenmare 1754–1812). _b._ 15 Jany. 1788; succeeded as 2 earl 3
Oct. 1812; lord lieut. of Kerry 1831 to death; col. of Kerry
militia 24 Jany. 1837 to death; created baron Kenmare of Castle
Rosse in the United Kingdom 17 Aug. 1841; one of the visitors of
Maynooth coll. 1845. _d._ Great Malvern 31 Oct. 1853.
KENMARE, THOMAS BROWNE, 3 Earl of (bro. of the preceding). _b._
15 Jany. 1789; ensign 40 foot 6 Aug. 1807, captain 1812–14; in
Peninsula 1809 to 1814, war medal and 9 clasps; succeeded his
brother 31 Oct. 1853; cr. baron Kenmare in peerage of the U.K.
by letters patent 12 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kerry 19 March
1866. _d._ 54 Eaton place, London 26 Dec. 1871.
KENNARD, COLERIDGE JOHN (1 son of John Peirse Kennard of Hoodle
Cliff, Hants.) _b._ Oct. 1828; managing director of Heywood,
Kennards & Co. bankers, London, merged in Consolidated bank
1864; founder of the Evening News 1889 which became the Evening
News and Post 1890; contested Salisbury 1874, 1880 and 1885;
M.P. Salisbury 20 Nov. 1882 to 18 Nov. 1885; the friend and
adviser of the duke of Albany. _d._ 39 Upper Grosvenor st.
London 25 Dec. 1890.
KENNARD, ROBERT WILLIAM (2 son of John Kennard of Lombard st.
London, banker). _b._ London 18 Jany. 1800; an ironmaster in
Scotland and south Wales and at Thames st. London; president
of Tournay and Jurbise railway company; chairman of Northern
and Eastern railway company; sheriff of London and Middlesex
1846–47; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 11 Feb. to 21
March 1857 and 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868; author of A
controversial correspondence between the rev. Paul Maclachlan,
Roman Catholic priest in Falkirk, and R. W. Kennard, three parts
1854. _d._ 37 Porchester ter. Bayswater, London 10 Jany. 1870.
KENNAWAY, CHARLES EDWARD (2 son of sir John Kennaway, 1 baronet
1758–1836). _b._ 3 Jany. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.,
15 wr. 1822, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, fell. of his coll.; V. of
Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 1832–72; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham
1840–43; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Brighton 1843–47; hon. canon in
Gloucester cath. 1861 to death; author of The churchman’s brief
manual of baptism, in four parts 1840; Sermons, practical,
historical and doctrinal 1842; Sermons preached at Brighton
1845, Second series 1847; Poems 1846; Perdita and Angelina or
the lost one found. An Anglo-Roman dialogue 1854–57; Some tones
of the voice of prophecy and of the voice of miracle 1867. _d._
Goodrest, Great Malvern 3 Nov. 1875.
KENNEDY, ANDREW. _b._ Kilcock, co. Kildare, Ireland 1804;
private in regiment of Hohenlohe 1825; made four campaigns in
the Morea and 14 in Algeria; commander of 33 regt. 1860–63
when he retired; commander of legion of honour; resided at
Landerneau 1863 to death. _d._ Landerneau, Oct. 1865. _Times 13
Oct. 1865 p._ 10 _col._ 1.
KENNEDY, SIR ARTHUR EDWARD (4 son of Hugh Kennedy of Cultra,
co. Down). _b._ 9 April 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign
11 foot 15 Aug. 1827, lieut. 1832 to 1840; captain unattached
12 June 1840; captain 68 foot 19 March 1841 to April 1848; poor
law inspector for Ireland 1846–51; governor of the Gambia 25
May 1852, of Sierra Leone 13 Sep. 1852, of Western Australia
June 1855 to 17 Feb. 1862, of Vancouver’s Island 4 Dec. 1863,
of West African settlements 15 Jany. 1868 to 1872; governor and
commander in chief of Hong Kong 20 Feb. 1872, of Queensland 6
Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 23 July 1862; knighted at Osborne 20
Dec. 1867; K.C.M.G. 29 Sep. 1871, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. _d._ off
Aden in the Red Sea, on his way to England 3 June 1883.
KENNEDY, BENJAMIN HALL (eld. son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851,
P.C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham). _b._ Summerhill, Birm. 6 Nov.
1804; ed. at Birm. gr. sch., Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll.
Camb.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, D.D. 1836; fellow of his coll.
1828–36, hon. fellow 1880–85 and fellow again 1885; a master at
Harrow 1830–36; head master of Shrewsbury 1836 to June 1866;
the greatest classical teacher of his day; preb. of Lichfield
1843–1867; select pr. in univ. of Camb. 1860; R. of West Felton,
Salop 1865–67; regius professor of Greek and canon of Ely 1867
to death; took part in revision of the New Testament 1870–80;
LL.D. of Dublin univ. 1885; author of Elementary Latin grammar
1843 on which was founded The public school Latin grammar 1871
used in nine of the chief schools in England; Sabrinæ Corolla
1850, 4 ed. 1890; The Birds of Aristophanes translated into
English verse 1874; Between whiles or wayside amusements of a
working life 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Pauline Christology 1883. _d._
Shiphay house near Torquay 6 April 1889. _Classical Review_,
_iii_ 226–7, 278–81 (1889); _Biograph_, _iv_ 229–30 (1880).
KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN (brother of preceding). _b._ Birmingham
1808; ed. at Shrewsbury, Birm. gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.;
scholar 1829, fellow 1831, senior classic 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A.
1834; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1835; professor of law Queen’s
coll. Birmingham 1849–56; applied to be allowed to join Midland
circuit, the mess refused his request 1850; adviser of Mrs.
Swinfen the plaintiff in case of Swinfen v. Swinfen, brought
action against her for £20,000 for his services, and obtained a
verdict, but the common pleas decided that a barrister could not
sue for his fees 1863; author of Translation of Select speeches
of Demosthenes 1841; Poems, original and translated 1843; New
rules for pleading 1838, 2 ed. 1841; A treatise on annuities
1846. _d._ Birmingham 17 Dec. 1867. _Law Journal_, _ii_ 557,
571 (1867); _J. Scott’s Common Bench Reports_, _xiii_ 677–742
(1863); _C. Beavan’s Chancery Reports_, _xxxiii_ 133–54 (1865).
KENNEDY, DAVID (son of David Kennedy, weaver and precentor,
_d._ 1874). _b._ Perth 15 April 1825; apprenticed to a painter
1841; a painter at Perth; precentor of Nicholson st. United
Presbyterian ch. Edin.; began a series of weekly concerts 1859;
first appeared in London at Hanover sq. rooms 1862; gave 100
concerts in Egyptian hall Dec. 1862 to May 1863; sang in Canada
and United States 1866–9; made a tour round the world with his
family 1872–6; toured in G.B. and Ireland 1876–9, South Africa
1879, India 1879–80, Canada 1881, United States and Australia
1882–4; had a rich tenor voice and was an effective reader and
declaimer; lost 3 children in the fire at the theatre at Nice 23
March 1881, namely James baritone singer aged 25, Kate contralto
aged 20 and Elizabeth soprano aged 18; author of Book of words
of Mr. Kennedy’s Entertainment on the songs of Scotland 1866;
Kennedy’s Colonial travel. A narrative of a four years tour
through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. 1876; Kennedy at
the Cape, a tour through Cape Colony, the Orange Free state, the
Diamond fields and Natal 1879. _d._ Stratford, Ontario 12 Oct.
1886. _Life of D. Kennedy_ (1887), _portrait_.
KENNEDY, HUGH A. Chess player; played with Popert, Staunton
and Walker; in London tournament 1851 took 6th prize; played
at Leamington 28 June 1855; chairman of the British chess
association meeting at Bristol 10 Sep. 1861; author of Waifs and
strays chiefly from the chess-board 1862, 2 ed. 1876. _d._ 22
Oct. 1878. _Westminster Papers_, _Dec. 1878 p._ 165; _I.L.N. 14
June 1855 pp._ 43, 44, _portrait_; _Illust. News of the World 14
Sep. 1861 p._ 164, _portrait_.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ 1785; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.D.
1813; physician to the Loughborough dispensary; practised
at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, retired from practice 1842 and lived
at Woodhouse near Loughborough 1842 to death; occupied for
many years in compiling a bibliography of medical treatises
with biographies of their authors, which he did not live to
print; published A dissertation on the anatomy, physiology and
pathology of the human tongue 1813; Instruction to mothers and
nurses on the management of children Glasgow 1825; Lecture on
Asiatic cholera 1832. _d._ 24 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury,
London 9 May 1851 aged 66.
KENNEDY, JAMES. Barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; M.P. for Tiverton
12 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition; M.P. for Tiverton again
24 May 1833 to May 1835; judge of mixed commission for
protection of slaves at Havanah 10 Feb. 1837 to 14 Dec. 1852
when superannuated; author of England and Venice compared. An
argument on the policy of England towards her colonies 1827;
Selections from the poems of J. M. Heredia, with translations
1844; Modern poets and poetry of Spain 1852; Ethnological and
philological essays 1855; Essays, ethnological and linguistic
1861. _d._ Liddiard house, Grove ter. Notting hill, London 15
May 1859.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ 1778 or 1779; entered Bengal army 1797;
colonel 5 Bengal light cavalry 26 Dec. 1832 to 1858, col. 5
European light cavalry 1858–9; C.B. 20 July 1838; commanded
Benares division 20 March 1847 to 26 June 1852; L.G. 11 Nov.
1851. _d._ Benares 25 Sep. 1859.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1801; shoemaker; schoolmaster in the
Carse of Gowrie, at Carnoustie and at Lochee; manager of the Tay
and Tyne shipping co. to his death, member of town council from
1851 for many years; dean of guild 1861, re-elected 3 times;
sec. and manager of Dundee property investment co. from its
formation; lectured at the Watt Institution. _d._ Dundee 25 July
1867. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 295–6.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ June 1803; M.R.C.S. 1828; author of The
history of the contagious cholera with facts explanatory of
its origin and laws and of a method of cure 1831, 3 ed. 1832;
Medical monopolies with a plan of reform. _d._ 17 Tavistock sq.
London 1868. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.
KENNEDY, SIR JAMES SHAW (eld. son of John Shaw who served in
76 highlanders). _b._ The Largs, Straiton parish, Ayrshire 13
Oct. 1788; ensign 43 foot 18 April 1805; served in Denmark,
Spain and Portugal; present at Waterloo, where his plan of
infantry formation was adopted; A.Q.M.G. of 3 division of
Anglo allied army May 1815; commander of establishment formed
at Calais to keep up communication between the army and England
1815–18; A.A.G. in Ireland 1826 and in England 1826–36; assumed
additional name of Kennedy, April 1834; commanded forces in
North Britain 1852; inspector general of Irish constabulary
1836–8; col. of 47 foot 27 Aug. 1854 to death; general 19 Aug.
1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861; author of A manual
of outpost duties 1851; Notes on the defence of Great Britain
and Ireland 1859, 4 ed. 1859. _d._ 8 Circus, Bath 30 May 1865.
_Notes on the battle of Waterloo. By Sir J. S. Kennedy_ (1865),
_with a memoir of his life and services pp._ 3–46.
KENNEDY, JOHN (3 son of Robert Kennedy). _b._ Knocknalling,
Kirkcudbright 4 July 1769; apprenticed to Cannan and Smith,
machine-maker at Chowbent, Lancashire 1784–91; partner with
Benjamin and William Sandford and James M’Connel, machine
makers and mill spinners, Manchester 1791; introduced a new
motion in cotton spinning called the double speed and improved
the jack frame; member of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. April
1803, contributed papers to Memoirs of the soc. 1815–30;
umpire in locomotive competition at Rainhill, Oct. 1829. _d._
Ardwick hall, Manchester 30 Oct. 1855. _John Kennedy’s Early
Recollections_ (1849); _Memoirs of Manchester Lit. and Phil.
Soc. i_ 147–57 (1862); _Smiles’s Industrial Biography_ (1879)
317–23.
KENNEDY, JOHN (4 son of rev. John Kennedy). _b._ at the
manse of Killearnan, Rossshire 15 Aug. 1819; ed. at Aberdeen
univ. 1836, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1873; minister of the Free ch.
at Dingwall, Rossshire, Feb. 1844 to death; preached in
Gaelic and English, sometimes delivering 10 sermons a week;
took part in the Strome Ferry case, an attempt to resist the
Sunday traffic on the Highland railway 1883; a leader in the
Highlands, of the opposition to the attempted union of the Free
and United Presbyterian churches; refused to have an organ or
to use uninspired hymns in his church; he was the acknowledged
successor of Dr. John Macdonald and was sometimes called the
second Apostle of the North; author of Days of the fathers in
Rossshire 1861; The apostle of the north, the life and labours
of Dr. Macdonald 1866; Man’s relation to God traced in the
light of the present truth 1869. _d._ Bridge of Allan, Stirling
28 April 1884. _Auld’s Life of John Kennedy, D.D._ (1887),
_portrait_; _Biograph_, _v_ 241 (1881).
KENNEDY, JOHN PITT (4 son of rev. John Pitt Kennedy, R. of Carn
Donagh, co. Donegal). _b._ Donagh 8 May 1796; 2 lieut. R.E. 1
Sep. 1815, on h.p. 28 May 1822; 1 lieut. R.E. 1825; sec. to
sir Charles Napier and director of public works in island of
Cephalonia 1822; sub-inspector of militia, Ionian islands 3
Jany. 1828 to 1 March 1832 when placed on h.p., sold out 1835;
inspector general national educational department, Ireland,
and teacher of agriculture, Nov. 1837 to March 1839; agent to
lord Devon’s estates, co. Limerick 1843; sec. to Irish famine
relief commission 1845; military sec. to sir Charles Napier in
India 1849; projected with lieut. col. French what is now Bombay
Baroda and central India railway 1852, consulting engineer
and managing director of the co. 1853; wrote many pamphlets
on Indian subjects; M.I.C.E. 3 March 1868; F.S.S.; author of
Instruct, employ, don’t hang them, or Ireland tranquilized
without soldiers 1835; Lectures on agriculture 1841; Road making
in the hills, having reference to the road from Kalka viâ Simla
to Kunawar and Thibet 1850; Finances, military occupation,
government and industrious development of India 1858. _d._ 66
St. George’s sq. London 28 June 1879. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E.
lix_ 293–8 (1880).
KENNEDY, PATRICK. _b._ co. Wexford 1801; assistant in a training
school, Kildare place, Dublin 1823; kept a bookseller’s shop
and circulating library, Anglesea place, Dublin to death; wrote
in the Dublin Review and Dublin Univ. Mag.; author of Legendary
fictions of the Irish Celts 1866, new ed. 1892; The banks of the
Boro, a chronicle of Wexford 1867; The bardic stories of Ireland
1871; The book of modern Irish anecdotes 1872; and under the
pseud. of Harry Whitney, Legends of Mount Leinster 1855. _d._
Anglesea place, Dublin 29 March 1873. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi_
581–2 (1873).
KENNEDY, RANN (son of Benjamin Kennedy, surgeon at Annapolis
in Maryland, _d._ 1784). _b._ 1772; lived at Withington near
Shrewsbury 1784–91; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1795,
M.A. 1798; master in King Edward’s school, Birmingham 1795,
second master 1807 to about 1836; C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham
1797–1817 and P.C. 1817–48; author of A poem on the death of the
princess Charlotte 1817; A tribute in verse to the character
of George Canning 1827; Britain’s Genius, a mask on occasion
of marriage of Victoria, queen of Great Britain 1840. _d._ at
res. of his son Chas. Kennedy, St. Paul’s sq. Birmingham 2 Jany.
1851. _B. H. Kennedy’s Between Whiles 2 ed._ (1882).
KENNEDY, RICHARD HARTLEY. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 30 June
1811, surgeon 1822, physician general 1842, retired 1 May 1843;
alderman of ward of Cheap 1853–58; sheriff of London 1855; a
director of the Royal British bank opened 17 Nov. 1849, deputy
governor Nov. 1849 to Jany. 1850 and 1854–5, bank closed 3 Sep.
1856; tried for fraud with 7 other directors in court of Queen’s
Bench, Guildhall 13–27 Feb. 1858 and sentenced to 9 months
imprisonment, but released July 1858; resided 11 Ladbroke ter.
Notting hill 1855; author of Notes on the epidemic cholera.
Calcutta 1827, 2 ed. 1846; Visconti, an historical tragedy 1829;
The Relicquary (sic) a collection of poetical fragments 1835;
Narrative of the campaign of the army of the Indus 2 vols. 1840;
The Sutti, as witnessed at Baroda 1855. _d._ Great Western
hotel, Paddington 24 July 1865. _Orridge’s Citizens of London_
(1867) 163–4; _A.R._ (1858) 330–9.
KENNEDY, THOMAS (1 son of John Kennedy 1730–1816, violin maker,
London). _b._ Houghton st. Clare market, London 21 Jany. 1784;
apprentice to Thomas Powell, violin maker 1795; violin maker
Princes st. Westminster, then at 364 Oxford st. 1816 to 1849
when he retired from business; worked much for the music trade;
made 300 violoncellos; lived at 162 Pentonville road 1849 to
death. _d._ 162 Pentonville road, London 1872. _Sandys and
Forster’s History of the Violin_ (1864) 353–4.
KENNEDY, THOMAS. _b._ 1809; solicitor 26 Chancery lane, London
1831 to death; author of The code of practice of the high court
of chancery 2 vols. 1843–52, 2 ed. 1845–53; The general orders
of the high court of chancery 1850. _d._ Devonshire road, Balham
hill 27 Sep. 1873.
KENNEDY, _Thomas Francis_ (only son of Thomas Kennedy of Dunure,
Ayrshire, _d._ 1819). _b._ Dalquharran castle, Ayrshire 11 Nov.
1788; ed. at Harrow and at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish
bar 1811; M.P. for Ayr district of burghs 1818–34; chairman
of committee on salmon fishing laws 1824; his draft formed
basis of Scottish reform bill 1832; clerk of the ordnance 8
Feb. 1832 to 1833; a junior lord of the treasury Nov. 1832 to
April 1834; paymaster of the civil services in Ireland 1837–50;
P.C. Ireland 1837; comr. of woods and forests 28 Aug. 1850 to
1854; Lord Murray gave him a pension of £1200 a year; author of
Letter to lord John Russell from T. F. Kennedy relative to his
removal from the office of commissioner of woods 1854; Three
letters to H. A. Bruce, secretary for home department on the
public prosecutor in Scotland 1869–72; Papers relating to the
improvement in the salmon fishery 1872; Two letters relating to
a passage in the life of lord Brougham 1872. _d._ Dalquharran
castle 1 April 1879. _Scotsman 2 April 1879 pp._ 6–7.
KENNEDY, TRISTRAM (brother of John Pitt Kennedy 1796–1879). _b._
Glebe house, Donagh, co. Donegal 1805; ed. at Foyle college,
Londonderry; sheriff of Londonderry 1828; called to Irish bar
1834; founded Dublin Law Institute 1839; M.P. for Louth co.
1852–7 and 1865–8; contested Louth co. 1857, King’s co. 1859 and
Donegal 1874. _d._ Charleville, Weston-Super-Mare 20 Nov. 1885.
KENNEDY, WILLIAM. _b._ near Dublin 26 Dec. 1799; ed. at Belfast
college 1819; journalist on the Paisley Magazine at Paisley
1828–9; worked with Leitch Ritchie in London 1830–3; private
sec. to earl of Durham, governor general of Canada 1838; assist.
comr. on enquiry into municipal institutions of Lower Canada,
Aug. 1838; British consul at Galveston, Texas, Dec. 1841 to
1847; retired on a pension 1849; edited the Continental annual
1832; author of My early days 1824; Fitful fancies 1827; The
arrow and the rose and other poems 1830; The siege of Antwerp
1838; The rise, progress and prospects of the republic of Texas
2 vols. 1841. _d._ Paris 1871. _G. Gilfillan’s History of a man_
(1856) _p._ 169; _J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_
213–17 (1877); _N. and Q. 2 S. i_ 113, 163, 183, 342, 400 (1856).