The Right Honourable
Sir John Kennaway
Bt CB DL
"Devonshire"
Kennaway as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1886
Member of Parliament
for East Devon
In office
9 April 1870 – 25 June 1885
Serving with Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt (1870-1880) and The Lord Waleran (1880-1885)
Preceded byLord Courtenay
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Member of Parliament
for Honiton
In office
26 June 1885 – 15 January 1910
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byClive Morrison-Bell
Arms of Kennaway: Argent, a fess azure between two eagles displayed in chief gules and in base through an annulet of the third a slip of olive and another of palm in saltire proper[1]

Sir John Henry Kennaway, 3rd Baronet, CB, PC, DL (6 June 1837 – 6 September 1919) was an English Conservative Party politician.

Early life and education

Kennaway was born on 6 June 1837 in Park Crescent, London, England, to Sir John Kennaway, 2nd Baronet and Emily Frances Kennaway (née Kingscote). He was educated at Harrow School, an all-boys public school in London. He studied law and modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[2]

Career

Political career

Kennaway was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Devon from 1870 to 1885, when the constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. He was then MP for the new Honiton constituency from 1885 until the January 1910 general election.

He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1897 and appointed CB in the 1902 Coronation Honours. From 1908 to 1910 he was Father of the House of Commons.

Other work

He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1864. He practiced as a barrister in the western circuit.[2]

He was a governor at the Kings School Ottery St Mary. As homage to him the school has named one of its houses after him—Kennaway.

Kennaway served as an officer in the Rifle Volunteers for forty-two years. He was commanding officer of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, from 1896 to 1902, when he was appointed its Honorary Colonel, a position he retained when it was merged into the 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, in the Territorial Force in 1908.[2][3][4]

Church of England

Kennaway was active in the Church of England. He was a low church, evangelical Anglican, who supported the temperance movement. He was a member of the Church Association which campaigned against Anglo-Catholicism, but he spoke against the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 that would allow legal actions again ritualist priests.[2] In 1904, he was appointed as a member of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline:[5] it reported in 1906, recommending the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.

He served as president of the Church Missionary Society and of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews.[3]

References

  1. ^ Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.B454
  2. ^ a b c d Feuchtwanger, E. J. (19 May 2011). "Kennaway, Sir John Henry, third baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47635. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b Kennaway, Rt Hon. Sir John Henry. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U198752. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 2 March 2019. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ Army List.
  5. ^ Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline; The Commission at anglicanhistory.org

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