KENEALY, EDWARD VAUGHAN HYDE (son of William Kenealy, merchant). _b._ Cork 2 July 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1846, LL.D. 1850; called to bar in Ireland 2 Nov. 1840; barrister G.I. 1 May 1847, disbarred 2 Dec. 1874 for his libellous articles in The Englishman; ordered to give up his chambers by the vice chancellor 29 June 1876; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868 to 11 Dec. 1874 when he was removed; bencher of Gray’s inn, April 1868 to 1 Aug. 1874 when he was disbenched; M.P. Stoke upon Trent 18 Feb. 1874 to 1880; contested Wednesbury 18 Nov. 1868; contested Stoke, April 1880; prosecuted for cruelty to Edward Hyde his natural son aged 6, May 1850 and imprisoned for a month; junior counsel in defence of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley poisoner 1856; led the prosecution of Overend, Gurney & Co., bankers 1869; succeeded serjeant Sleigh as leading counsel for Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant 1873, conducted the case in a most outrageous manner, insulting the bench and witnesses, the jury censured him in a rider to their verdict; started The Englishman in which he continued to abuse the chief justice and the solicitor general 11 April 1874; expelled from the mess of the Oxford circuit 2 April 1874; founded the Magna Charta association 1874; author of Brallaghan or the Deipnosophists 1845; Goethe, a new pantomime 1850, 3 ed. 1863; Poems and translations 1864; An introduction to the Apocalypse; E. W. Montagu, an autobiography, edited by Y. 3 vols. 1869; The trial at bar of sir R. C. D. Tichborne, Bart. 5 vols. 1875–8; Poetical works 3 vols. 1875–9; Fo, the third messenger of God 1878. _d._ 6 Tavistock sq. London 16 April 1880. _bur._ Hangleton near Brighton 22 April. _H. G. Gill’s Life and forensic career of E. V. Kenealy_ (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 161 1873), _portrait_; _The Englishman 24 April 1880 et seq., a long memoir_; _G.M. Feb. 1874 pp._ 220–7, _June 1875 pp._ 698–709; _London Sketch Book_, _Jany. 1874_, _portrait_.
NOTE.--There is on the south-east angle of the south transept of Chester cathedral a series of twelve corbels with carved subjects illustrating an allegory, three of these are undoubted likenesses of the Earl of Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone and Dr. Kenealy.
KENMARE, VALENTINE BROWNE, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of Kenmare 1754–1812). _b._ 15 Jany. 1788; succeeded as 2 earl 3 Oct. 1812; lord lieut. of Kerry 1831 to death; col. of Kerry militia 24 Jany. 1837 to death; created baron Kenmare of Castle Rosse in the United Kingdom 17 Aug. 1841; one of the visitors of Maynooth coll. 1845. _d._ Great Malvern 31 Oct. 1853.
KENMARE, THOMAS BROWNE, 3 Earl of (bro. of the preceding). _b._ 15 Jany. 1789; ensign 40 foot 6 Aug. 1807, captain 1812–14; in Peninsula 1809 to 1814, war medal and 9 clasps; succeeded his brother 31 Oct. 1853; cr. baron Kenmare in peerage of the U.K. by letters patent 12 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kerry 19 March 1866. _d._ 54 Eaton place, London 26 Dec. 1871.
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 1854. _d._ 37 Porchester ter. Bayswater, London 10 Jany. 1870.
KENNAWAY, CHARLES EDWARD (2 son of sir John Kennaway, 1 baronet 1758–1836). _b._ 3 Jany. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 15 wr. 1822, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, fell. of his coll.; V. of Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 1832–72; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham 1840–43; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Brighton 1843–47; hon. canon in Gloucester cath. 1861 to death; author of The churchman’s brief manual of baptism, in four parts 1840; Sermons, practical, historical and doctrinal 1842; Sermons preached at Brighton 1845, Second series 1847; Poems 1846; Perdita and Angelina or the lost one found. An Anglo-Roman dialogue 1854–57; Some tones of the voice of prophecy and of the voice of miracle 1867. _d._ Goodrest, Great Malvern 3 Nov. 1875.
KENNEDY, ANDREW. _b._ Kilcock, co. Kildare, Ireland 1804; private in regiment of Hohenlohe 1825; made four campaigns in the Morea and 14 in Algeria; commander of 33 regt. 1860–63 when he retired; commander of legion of honour; resided at Landerneau 1863 to death. _d._ Landerneau, Oct. 1865. _Times 13 Oct. 1865 p._ 10 _col._ 1.
KENNEDY, SIR ARTHUR EDWARD (4 son of Hugh Kennedy of Cultra, co. Down). _b._ 9 April 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 11 foot 15 Aug. 1827, lieut. 1832 to 1840; captain unattached 12 June 1840; captain 68 foot 19 March 1841 to April 1848; poor law inspector for Ireland 1846–51; governor of the Gambia 25 May 1852, of Sierra Leone 13 Sep. 1852, of Western Australia June 1855 to 17 Feb. 1862, of Vancouver’s Island 4 Dec. 1863, of West African settlements 15 Jany. 1868 to 1872; governor and commander in chief of Hong Kong 20 Feb. 1872, of Queensland 6 Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 23 July 1862; knighted at Osborne 20 Dec. 1867; K.C.M.G. 29 Sep. 1871, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. _d._ off Aden in the Red Sea, on his way to England 3 June 1883.
KENNEDY, BENJAMIN HALL (eld. son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851, P.C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham). _b._ Summerhill, Birm. 6 Nov. 1804; ed. at Birm. gr. sch., Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Camb.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, D.D. 1836; fellow of his coll. 1828–36, hon. fellow 1880–85 and fellow again 1885; a master at Harrow 1830–36; head master of Shrewsbury 1836 to June 1866; the greatest classical teacher of his day; preb. of Lichfield 1843–1867; select pr. in univ. of Camb. 1860; R. of West Felton, Salop 1865–67; regius professor of Greek and canon of Ely 1867 to death; took part in revision of the New Testament 1870–80; LL.D. of Dublin univ. 1885; author of Elementary Latin grammar 1843 on which was founded The public school Latin grammar 1871 used in nine of the chief schools in England; Sabrinæ Corolla 1850, 4 ed. 1890; The Birds of Aristophanes translated into English verse 1874; Between whiles or wayside amusements of a working life 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Pauline Christology 1883. _d._ Shiphay house near Torquay 6 April 1889. _Classical Review_, _iii_ 226–7, 278–81 (1889); _Biograph_, _iv_ 229–30 (1880).
KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN (brother of preceding). _b._ Birmingham 1808; ed. at Shrewsbury, Birm. gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.; scholar 1829, fellow 1831, senior classic 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1835; professor of law Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1849–56; applied to be allowed to join Midland circuit, the mess refused his request 1850; adviser of Mrs. Swinfen the plaintiff in case of Swinfen v. Swinfen, brought action against her for £20,000 for his services, and obtained a verdict, but the common pleas decided that a barrister could not sue for his fees 1863; author of Translation of Select speeches of Demosthenes 1841; Poems, original and translated 1843; New rules for pleading 1838, 2 ed. 1841; A treatise on annuities 1846. _d._ Birmingham 17 Dec. 1867. _Law Journal_, _ii_ 557, 571 (1867); _J. Scott’s Common Bench Reports_, _xiii_ 677–742 (1863); _C. Beavan’s Chancery Reports_, _xxxiii_ 133–54 (1865).
KENNEDY, DAVID (son of David Kennedy, weaver and precentor, _d._ 1874). _b._ Perth 15 April 1825; apprenticed to a painter 1841; a painter at Perth; precentor of Nicholson st. United Presbyterian ch. Edin.; began a series of weekly concerts 1859; first appeared in London at Hanover sq. rooms 1862; gave 100 concerts in Egyptian hall Dec. 1862 to May 1863; sang in Canada and United States 1866–9; made a tour round the world with his family 1872–6; toured in G.B. and Ireland 1876–9, South Africa 1879, India 1879–80, Canada 1881, United States and Australia 1882–4; had a rich tenor voice and was an effective reader and declaimer; lost 3 children in the fire at the theatre at Nice 23 March 1881, namely James baritone singer aged 25, Kate contralto aged 20 and Elizabeth soprano aged 18; author of Book of words of Mr. Kennedy’s Entertainment on the songs of Scotland 1866; Kennedy’s Colonial travel. A narrative of a four years tour through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. 1876; Kennedy at the Cape, a tour through Cape Colony, the Orange Free state, the Diamond fields and Natal 1879. _d._ Stratford, Ontario 12 Oct. 1886. _Life of D. Kennedy_ (1887), _portrait_.