KENNEDY, HUGH A. Chess player; played with Popert, Staunton
and Walker; in London tournament 1851 took 6th prize; played
at Leamington 28 June 1855; chairman of the British chess
association meeting at Bristol 10 Sep. 1861; author of Waifs and
strays chiefly from the chess-board 1862, 2 ed. 1876. _d._ 22
Oct. 1878. _Westminster Papers_, _Dec. 1878 p._ 165; _I.L.N. 14
June 1855 pp._ 43, 44, _portrait_; _Illust. News of the World 14
Sep. 1861 p._ 164, _portrait_.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ 1785; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.D.
1813; physician to the Loughborough dispensary; practised
at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, retired from practice 1842 and lived
at Woodhouse near Loughborough 1842 to death; occupied for
many years in compiling a bibliography of medical treatises
with biographies of their authors, which he did not live to
print; published A dissertation on the anatomy, physiology and
pathology of the human tongue 1813; Instruction to mothers and
nurses on the management of children Glasgow 1825; Lecture on
Asiatic cholera 1832. _d._ 24 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury,
London 9 May 1851 aged 66.
KENNEDY, JAMES. Barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; M.P. for Tiverton
12 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition; M.P. for Tiverton again
24 May 1833 to May 1835; judge of mixed commission for
protection of slaves at Havanah 10 Feb. 1837 to 14 Dec. 1852
when superannuated; author of England and Venice compared. An
argument on the policy of England towards her colonies 1827;
Selections from the poems of J. M. Heredia, with translations
1844; Modern poets and poetry of Spain 1852; Ethnological and
philological essays 1855; Essays, ethnological and linguistic