Background
Kennedy was born in 1836, the son of John Kennedy (d 1845) and his wife Amelia Maria Briggs (d 1896). His father had been the British Chargé d"affaires in Naples, Italy, and was a grandson of the 11th Earl of Cassilis.
Kennedy was born in 1836, the son of John Kennedy (d 1845) and his wife Amelia Maria Briggs (d 1896). His father had been the British Chargé d"affaires in Naples, Italy, and was a grandson of the 11th Earl of Cassilis.
Harrow; Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
He entered the Foreign Office in 1857, served in Street St. Petersburg, and was Secretary at the British Embassy in Rome when in October 1888 he was appointed Minister Resident and Consul General to the Republic of Chile. He served in Chile until August 1897, when he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of the King of Romania, serving as such until 1905. Kennedy married, in 1877, Evelyn Adela Bootle-Wilbraham, daughter of Colonel Honorary
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, a son of the 1st Baron Skelmersdale.
Clubs: Travellers’, Saint James’s, Wellington.
Spouse 1877, Evelyn,daughter of Colonel the Honourable Edward Wilbraham.