Career
Kensit, along with other campaigners, such as William Harcourt, believed the government and the courts were not dealing with the issue of Ritualism vigorously enough. Kensit would deal with the issue by attending churches where he believed Ritualism was still being conducted or appear at courts where Ritualist cases were being tried, and would vocally disrupt proceedings. Kensit made international news in 1899 when he announced that he would run for Parliament in the seat for Manchester East against Arthur Balfour, the leader of the House of Commons.
Kensit died on 8 October 1902, of pneumonia and blood poisoning, the result of a wound he received in September that year when he was struck by a chisel thrown by a protester as he arrived at a meeting in Birkenhead.