Background
ELNNKIO., Master of Arts was born on November 3, 1919 in Edinburgh. Son of late Captain E. C. Kennedy, Registered Nurse, and of Rosalind Kennedy.
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Master of Arts ELNNKIO.
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Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford.
Career
The Sleeping Ballerina, The Singers and the Songs, Scapa Flow, Battleship Bismarck, Life and Death of the Schamhorst, U-Boat War, Target Tirpitz, The Rise of the Red Navy, Lord Haw-Haw, Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby?, Elizabeth: The First Thirty Years. A Life of Richard Dimbleby.Writer and broadaster. Served in Navy 1939-1946 (attained rank of Lieutenant). Private Secretary and Aide-de-camp to Government of Newfoundland 1943-1944.
Librarian, Ashridge (Adult Education) College 1949.
Editor, feature, First Reading (British Broadcasting Corporation Third Programme) 1953-1954. Lecturer for British Council, Sweden, Finland, Denmark 1955, Belgium, Luxembourg 1956.
Contested Rochdale by-election 1958, general election 1959 as Liberal candidate. President National League of Young Liberals 1959-1961.
Chairman British Broadcasting Corporation features: Your Verdict 1962, Your Witness 1967-1970.
Commentator British Broadcasting Corporation’s Panorama 1960-1963, Television Reports Institute (also producer) 1963-1964. Introducer British Broadcasting Corporation’s Time Out 1964-1965, World at One 1965-1966. Presenter Liberal Party’s General Election television Broadcasts 1966, The Middle Years, American Broadcasting Company 1967, The Nature of Prejudice, ATV 1968, Face The Press, Tyne-Tees 1968-1969, 1970-1972, Against the Tide, Yorkshire television 1969, Living and Growing, Grampian television 1969-1970, 24 Hours, British Broadcasting Corporation 1969-1972, Ad Liberal, British Broadcasting Corporation 1970-1972, Midweek, British Broadcasting Corporation 1973-1975, Newsday, British Broadcasting Corporation 76, interviewer Tonight, British Broadcasting Corporation 1976-1980, A Life with Crime British Broadcasting Corporation 1979, presenter Lord Mountbatten Remembers 1980, Change of Direction 1980, Did You See British Broadcasting Corporation 1980-1988, Great Railway Journeys of the World British Broadcasting Corporation 1980, Chairman Indelible Evidence British Broadcasting Corporation 1987, 1990, A Gift of the Gab British Broadcasting Corporation 1989, Portrait British Broadcasting Corporation 1989.
President Sir Walter Scott Club, Edinburgh 1968-1969.
Chairman Royal Lyceum Theatre Company of Edinburgh 1977-1984. Chairman Judges, National Cash Register Book.
Lecturer 1985. Honorary Deputy Lieutenant (Strathclyde) 1985.
Honorary Honorary degree (Edinburgh) 1990. Honorary Doctor (Sterling) since 1991.
Cross First Class.
Membership
Liberal Party Council 1965-1967. Council Navy Records Society 1957-1970.
Connections
Married Moira Shearer King in 1950.
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British