KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ June 1803; M.R.C.S. 1828; author of The
history of the contagious cholera with facts explanatory of
its origin and laws and of a method of cure 1831, 3 ed. 1832;
Medical monopolies with a plan of reform. _d._ 17 Tavistock sq.
London 1868. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.
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.