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.