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.