Background
Kenny was born in Woodbrook, Portuguese of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago,and was educated at Belmont Intermediate School and then at Street Mary"son
Kenny was born in Woodbrook, Portuguese of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago,and was educated at Belmont Intermediate School and then at Street Mary"son
He is best known for his work on freshwater fishes and anurans, and for his contribution to the conservation movement in Trinidad and Tobago. After completing Grade 13 at Ridley College in Saint Catharines, Canada, he received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. After working at a fisheries laboratory in Canada, Kenny returned to Trinidad where he worked as a scientific officer in what would later become the Fisheries Division.
After working there for nine years, he entered Birbeck College, University of London, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy. After graduating he joined the Department of Biological Sciences at the Saint Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies.
After retiring from the department, Kenny served as Chairman of the Trustees of the Guardian Life Wildlife Fund. Between 1995 and 2001 he served as an Independent Senator.
He authored several books about Trinidad and Tobago"s ecology, first with Macmillan and then with Media and Editorial Projects Limited book imprint, Prospect Press. His titles include:
Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean (Caribbean Pocket Natural History Series) (1998, )
Views from the Ridge (2008 reprint, )
Flowers of Trinidad & Tobago (2006, )
Orchids of Trinidad & Tobago (2008, )
A Naturalist"s Notes: the Biological Diversity of Trinidad & Tobago (2008, )
Kenny also wrote a column for the Trinidad and Tobago Express newspaper.
He died in Portuguese of Spain, aged 81.
