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The Hon. Sir William Rann Kennedy was born in Kensington, and was sent
to Eton in 1858. At Cambridge, where he went in 1864 as a scholar of
King's College, he carried off almost every prize that was open to
his competition. He was for a time president of the Cambridge Union,
and was elected to a Fellowship at Pembroke in 1868. Whilst still _in
statu pupillari_ he enrolled himself as a student at Lincoln's Inn, and
a short time before his call to the Bar, in 1870-71, he was private
secretary to Mr. Goschen, who was President of the then Poor Law Board.
In 1882 he came to London, and in 1885 applied for and obtained silk.
He was raised to the Bench in 1892.