Modern English biography

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). KENNEDY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1813; in employment of Hudson Bay Co.; stationed in Labrador 8 years; commander of the Prince Albert, lady Franklin’s searching vessel 22 May 1851, wintered at Batty bay, left the ship, sledge travelling 25 Feb. 1852 and was at Fury Beach 7–29 March, discovered Bellot’s Strait, marched over Prince of Wales’ Land and round North Somerset, being away 97 days and covering 1100 miles with dogs and sledges; returned to Aberdeen, Oct. 1852; author of A short narrative of the second voyage of the Prince Albert in search of sir John Franklin 1853. _d._ St. Andrew’s, Winnipeg 25 July 1890. _Markham’s Arctic Navy list_ (1875) 27; _Times 21 Feb. 1890 p._ 10. KENNEDY, WILLIAM DENHOLM. _b._ Dumfries 16 June 1813; entered R.A. school, London 1833, won the gold medal for his picture Apollo and Idas 1835, awarded the travelling allowance and spent 2 years in Rome 1840–2; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 22 at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1833–65. _d._ 26 Soho sq. London 2 June 1865. KENNEDY, WILLIAM JAMES (4 son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851). _b._ 1814; ed. Birmingham gram. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., Porson prize for Greek iambics 1835, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844; sec. of National Soc. for promotion of education 1848; H.M. inspector of schools in north western counties 16 Dec. 1848 to 1878; V. of Barnwood, Gloucs. 1878 to death; author of The conscience clause, read at Manchester congress of social science 1866; Agnosticism, a sermon 1884; The English clergyman and the present times 1887; while giving evidence in house of lords in Berkeley peerage case caught cold, _d._ Barnwood, June 1891. KENNEDY-BAILIE, JAMES (son of Nicholas Kennedy, schoolmaster). _b._ Ireland 1793; pensioner Trin. coll. Dublin 1807, scholar 1810; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1823, D.D. 1828; fellow of Trin. coll. 1817 to 29 May 1831, Donnelan lecturer 1824; delivered in Trin. coll. chapel Ten lectures on the philosophy of the Mosaic record of creation, published in 2 vols. 1827; R. of Ardtrea, co. Tyrone 13 Oct. 1830 to death; assumed additional surname of Bailie 1835; author of Æschylus Agamemnon, with a translation 1829; Fasciculus inscriptionum Græcarum 3 vols. 1842–9; The Iliad with notes by J. K. Bailie 1846. _d._ Ardtrea 18 Jany. 1864. _W. B. S. Taylor’s History of the University of Dublin_ (1845) 497. KENNELL, JOHN FISHER. _b._ 1817; sec. of London and Blackwall and London, Tilbury and Southend railway companies before 1866 to death. _d._ Hornton cottage, Hornton st. Kensington 1 Feb. 1881. KENNETT, BRADELEY. _b._ 1778; entered Bombay army 1795; colonel 22 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Coonor, Neilgherry hills 12 Oct. 1857 aged 79, from wounds received at hands of an assassin 8 Oct. KENNETT, EDWARD HOILE. Entered R.N. 15 July 1826, served on North America and West India stations; lieut. 12 Nov. 1839; retired commander 3 Jany. 1866; naval knight of Windsor 29 Nov. 1867, governor of the naval knights 15 Aug. 1873 to death; granted pension of £30, 18 April 1871. _d._ Travers college, Windsor 11 March 1880. KENNEY, ARTHUR HENRY (youngest son of Edward Kenney, vicar choral and prebendary of Cork). _b._ 1776 or 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1793; B.A. 1795, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1806, D.D. 1812; fellow Trinity Monday 1800 to 1809; R. of Kilmacrenan, Dublin 15 May 1810; dean of Achonry 27 June 1812 to May 1821 when he resigned; R. of St. Olave, Southwark, London, July 1821 to death; his living was sequestered about 1844; resided abroad during last ten years of his life; edited with his initials Magee’s Discourses on atonement and sacrifice 3 vols. 1832, and The works of W. Magee 1842; published An enquiry concerning some of the doctrines maintained by the church of Rome 1818; Principles and practices of pretended reformers in church and state 1819; Facts and documents illustrative of the history of the period immediately preceding the accession of William III. 1827; The dangerous nature of Popish power in these countries 1839; A comment on the epistles and gospels relating to our Blessed Saviour 2 vols. 1842. _d._ Boulogne-sur-Mer 27 Jany. 1855. KENNEY, CHARLES LAMB (son of James Kenney 1780–1849, dramatist). _b._ Bellevue near Paris 29 April 1821; Charles Lamb was one of his godfathers; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1829 etc.; clerk in the general post office 1837; assistant foreign editor, dramatic critic and scientific reporter on the Times 1840; sec. to sir Joseph Paxton during organization of transport service for the Crimea 1855; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1856; sec. to F. De Lesseps 1856–57; on the Standard 1858; one of the wittiest men of his time; author of The gates of the East 1857; Memoirs of M. W. Balfe 1875; adapted more than 20 foreign operas, including Fair Helen 1866, Princess of Trebizonde 1870, The Grand Duchess of Gérolstein 1871 and La Jolie Parfumeuse 1875; wrote Wanted husbands, sketch Drury Lane 1867; Valentine and Orson, pantomime Holborn 1867; Our autumn manœuvres, farce Adelphi 1871; wrote The Vagabond 1871 and other songs. _d._ Eldon road, Kensington 25 Aug. 1881. _Illust. sporting and dr. news 3 Sep. 1881 p._ 583; _Era 3 Sep. 1881 p._ 6; _I.L.N. 3 Sep. 1881 pp._ 223, 242. KENNION, CHARLES JOHN (son of Edward Kennion, artist 1744–1809). _b._ 1789; water-colour painter; exhibited 26 landscapes at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1804–53. _d._ Robert st. Regent’s park, London 10 Sep. 1853. KENNION, GEORGE. _b._ 1814; M.D. Edin. 1837; in practice at Harrogate 1837 to death; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1865; physician Harrogate Bath hospital; wrote on Bisulphide of carbon as a cure for the headache in Medical Times 18 July 1868 p. 77; author of On the medical springs of Harrogate 1845; Observations on the medicinal springs of Harrogate 1853, 8 ed. 1872. _d._ Oak lodge, Harrogate, Yorkshire 30 June 1868 aged 54. _Medical Times 18 July 1868 p._ 81–2; _British Medical Journal_, _ii_ 72 (1868). KENNY, WILLIAM STOPFORD. _b._ 1788; kept a classical school at 5 Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London many years; a good chess player; translated F. A. Danican Philidor’s Analysis of the game of chess 1819; author of Practical chess grammar 1817, 2 ed. 1817; Practical chess exercises 1818; The manual of science 1844; Why and because, a collection of questions and answers on air, water, light and fire 1830, 18 ed. 1854; The grammatical omnibus 8 ed. 1853; Kenny’s School geography or earth and heaven 1856 and many other school books. _d._ Lower road, Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1867. KENRICK, FRANCIS PATRICK. _b._ Dublin 3 Dec. 1797; ordained a priest in Rome 1821; conducted a theological seminary at Bardstown, Kentucky, U.S. of America 1821; bishop of Arath; bishop of Philadelphia 1842; archbishop of Baltimore, Aug. 1851 to death; apostolic delegate, presiding over the first plenary council of the U.S. of America at Baltimore, May 1852; primate of the U.S. of America 1859; author of Letters of Omicron to Omega 1828; The primacy of the apostolic see and the authority of general councils vindicated 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Theologia dogmatica 4 vols. 1839–40, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1858; Theologia moralis 3 vols. 1841–3; Letters on christian union 1841; The four gospels translated from the Latin vulgate with notes 1849. _d._ Baltimore 6 July 1863. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 519 (1887), _portrait_. KENRICK, GEORGE (4 son of rev. Timothy Kenrick 1759–1804, unitarian commentator). _b._ Exeter 28 Oct. 1792; ed. at Glasgow coll. and Manchester coll. York; M.A.; unitarian minister at Chesterfield 1813–14, Hull 1815–21, Maidstone 1822–6, Hampstead 1829–45 and Battle 1845–7; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s foundation 1833–60; contributed to the Monthly Repository and other periodicals, and published some sermons 1822–34. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 2 Dec. 1874. _The Inquirer 12 Dec. 1874 pp._ 813–4; _Appendix to rev. G. Kenrick’s farewell discourse at Hampstead, containing the correspondence which led to his resignation 1845_, _2 ed._ 1845. KENRICK, JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Exeter 4 Feb. 1788; ed. at Exeter academy 1799–1805 when academy was dissolved; studied at Glasgow univ. 1807–10, M.A. 1 May 1810; tutor in classics, history and literature at Manchester college, York 1810–40; professor of history, Manchester New college, Manchester 1840–50; F.S.A. 4 Feb. 1858; author of Exercises on Latin Syntax 1825, 4 ed. 1838; The Egypt of Herodotus with notes 1841; Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs 2 vols. 1850; Phœnicia 1855; Biblical essays 1864. _d._ 38 Monkgate, York 7 May 1877. _J. Martineau’s Essays, reviews and addresses_, _i_ 397–421 (1890); _Theological Review_, _July 1877 pp._ 374–97. KENRICK, TIMOTHY (son of Archibald Kenrick). _b._ 1807; with his father and brother developed the hollow ware trade, retired; a founder of the Nurses’ training institution, Birmingham, for which he purchased a home; a director of Midland railway 1858, deputy chairman; deputy chairman Lloyds’ Banking co. _d._ Maple Bank, Edgbaston 23 Feb. 1885. _Birmingham Weekly Post 28 Feb. 1885 p._ 3. KENSINGTON, WILLIAM EDWARDES, 2 Baron. _b._ 24 April 1777; succeeded 13 Dec. 1801; M.P. for Haverfordwest 12 Jany. 1802 to 10 June 1818. _d._ 23 Kensington crescent, London 10 Aug. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 306 (1852). KENT, MARIA LOUISA VICTORIA, Duchess of (6 child and 4 dau. of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750–1806). _b._ Coburg 17 Aug. 1786. _m._ (1) 21 Dec. 1803 Ernest Charles prince of Leiningen, he was _b._ 27 Sep. 1763 and _d._ 4 July 1814; _m._ (2) at Coburg 29 May 1818 and at Kew palace 11 July 1818 Edward Augustus duke of Kent and Streathearn, 5 child and 4 son of King George the third, he was _b._ 2 Nov. 1767 and _d._ 23 Jany. 1820; mother of queen Victoria. _d._ of cancer at Frogmore near Windsor 16 March 1861. _bur._ in royal vault, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 25 March, but moved to mausoleum at Frogmore 1 Aug. _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_, _iv_ (1833), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iv_ 41, _portrait_; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 42–54; _Sams’s Annual peerage_, _ii_ (1827), _portrait_; _T. Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort 5 ed. iii_ (1878), _portrait_. KENT, GEORGE. _b._ Tunbridge Wells 1806; an apprentice to the wire work trade in Chelsea; a window blind maker, Constitution row, Gray’s Inn road, London; took out a patent dated 12 June 1844 for a knife cleaning machine; knife cleaning machine maker at 329 Strand, 218 Regent st. and 101 Holborn to 1854; manufacturer of labor saving articles of domestic utility at 199 High Holborn 1854 to death; his name has become a household word all over the civilized world. _d._ Southwood, 72 Southwood lane, Highgate 23 May 1890. NOTE.--His eldest son George E. Kent _d._ 12 Manor villas, Theydon Bois, Essex 30 Jany. 1892 aged 54. KENT, GEORGE H. _b._ London 1809; reporter on rowing, sailing matches, pedestrianism, cricket and shooting matches to all the London daily and weekly papers except The Times and Bell’s Life from 1826; police reporter at Queen square for the Morning Post