Modern English biography

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