Background
KENNETT, Robert Hatch was born on September 9, 1864 in Saint Laurence, Ramsgate. Son of John Kennett, 1st Mayor of Ramsgate, by his 2nd wife, Jane Hatch, Ulcomb, Kent.
KENNETT, Robert Hatch was born on September 9, 1864 in Saint Laurence, Ramsgate. Son of John Kennett, 1st Mayor of Ramsgate, by his 2nd wife, Jane Hatch, Ulcomb, Kent.
Studied at Merchant Taylors’ School. Queens’ College Cambridge (Scholar). 1st Class Semitic Languages Tripos, 1886.
Tyrwhitt’s Scholar and Mason Hebrew Prizeman, 1887.
Ordained, 1887; Curate at Saint Botolph’s, Cambridge, 1887-1889. Chaplain at Queens’ College, 18S7-93, 1903. Lecturer in Hebrew and Syriac, Caius College 1891 - 93.
Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Ely, 1905.
Schweich Lecturer, 1909. Regius Professor Hebrew, Cambridge. Canon of Ely since 1903.
Fellow (1888) and Lecturer in Hebrew and Syriac of Queens’ College Cambridge (1887-1903). University Lecturer in Aramaic (1893-1903).
Spouse 1889, Emily Augusta, 2nddaughter of Major-General East. West. South. Scott, late Bengal Artillery.