Modern English biography

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.