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Rh 120, bearing the flag, as before, of Sir E. Pellew, under whom he participated in the actions of 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814 with the Toulon fleet. He was promoted (from the prison-ship at Plymouth, Capt. Rich. Pridham) to the rank of Lieutenant 8 Feb. 1815; but has not been since employed.

 KENDALL. 

entered the Navy 29 Nov. 1327; passed his examinatian in 1834; and served, as Mate of the 20, Capt. Chas. Anstruther Barlow, during the operations of March and May, 1841, against Canton, where he gained the character of being a very deserving officer, but had the misfortune to lose a leg. Being in consequence promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by commission dated 8 June in the latter year, he was afterwards appointed, in that capacity – 10 Oct. 1842, to the gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – and, 31 Jan. 1843, to the 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne at Devonport. He attained his present rank 13 March, 1845, and has since been on half-pay. – Case and Loudonsack.

 KENDERDINE. 

entered the Navy, 22 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess frigate, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, on accompanying whom, as Midshipman, into the 74 (commanded afterwards by Capt. Chas. Dashwood), he was in company with the  and  when those ships were lost on their passage home from the Baltic during a violent gale in Dec. 1811. He continued in the, on the West India and Home stations, until Feb. 1814; between which period and Aug. 1815 we find him employed, at Portsmouth, in North America, and at Plymouth, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the 74, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, 80, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, 64, Capt. John Martin Hanchett, and  98, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. He then took up a commission dated 7 March, 1815, and has since been on half-pay.

He married, in 1827, Elizabeth Harriet, daughter of Mr. Brutton, Governor of the County Prison, Stafford.

 KENMURE, Viscount. 

, born 9 Jan. 1792, at Drungan Lodge, near Dumfries, N.B., is son of the late Hon. Adam Gordon, by his first wife. Miss Harriet Davies. His eldest brother, John, died a Lieutenant in the R.N. 31 Dec. 1813; and his youngest, Edward Maxwell, a Lieutenant in the 22nd Infantry, lost his life at Jamaica 14 Dec. 1827. The Viscount succeeded his uncle in the Peerage 21 Sept. 1840.

This officer entered the Navy, 12 July, 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Lord Garlies, Christopher Laroche, Wm. Brown, and John Pilfold, in which ship we find him sharing, in the course of 1805, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action, also in Hon. Wm. Cornwallis’ pursuit of the French fleet into Brest, and in the battle of Trafalgar. Removing, in April, 1806, to the of 42 guns, he was present, on the night of 5 July, 1808, when that ship, with only 251 men on board, put to flight the Turkish frigate Alis-Fezan of 26 guns and 230 men, and captured, after a memorably furious engagement, and a loss to the British of 5 men killed and 10 wounded, her consort, the Badere-Zaffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were killed and 200 wounded. During his continuance in the Mr. Gordon was often engaged with the enemy’s batteries and gun-boats at Cadiz; he assisted, too, in reducing the islands of Gianuti and Pianosa; and in one of several boat affairs on- the coast of Italy he received a slight contusion. Being unfortunately, on 21 Oct. 1809, taken prisoner in a prize, oif Sardinia, by the Lettéros letter-of-marque, he was carried to Genoa, and subsequently to Verdun, where it was his lot to be detained en parole until 1814. He then sailed for Quebec in the, Capt. Peter Fisher, for the purpose of joining the Canadian Lake service, to which he continued attached, as Acting-Lieutenant and Lieutenant (order and commission respectively dated 9 April and 1 July, 1815), until he invalided in Aug. 1816. He has since been on half-pay.

Viscount Kenmure is Deputy-Lieutenant for Kirkcudbrightshire. He married, 2 Nov. 1843, Mary Anne, daughter of the late Jas. Wildey, Esq., of the Oxford Militia.

 KENNEDY. 

(a) entered the Navy, 24 Oct. 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the frigate, Capt. Hon. Mich. De Courcy, with whom he served on the Irish, Channel, and Mediterranean stations, latterly as Midshipman of the 74, until April, 1800. Removing then to the 32, Capts. Wm. Lukin and Aiskew Paffard Hollis, he witnessed Sir Jas. Saumarez’ action of 12 July, 1801, in the Gut of Gibraltar, and was present, in the course of the same year, at the cutting out of a gun-boat and convoy from the Bay of Estapona. The being paid off in Jan. 1803, he next, in the following April, joined the  74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, under whom he assisted at the capture of Le Courier de Terre Neuve privateer of 16 guns and 60 men, and L’Atalante, a beautiful corvette of 22 guns and 120 men. In 1804 we find Mr. Kennedy sailing in the 74, Capt. John Ferrier, for the East Indies, where, after an attachment of a short period to the  36, commanded by the present Sir Josiah Coghill, he was confirmed a Lieutenant, 2 April, 1806, in the  74, Capt. Joseph Bingham; which ship, on 11 of the ensuing Nov., made a dash, with the  50, into St. Paul’s Bay, Ile de Bourbon, and opened a fire upon the shipping there at anchor, consisting of the Semillante French frigate, three armed ships, and 12 sail of merchantmen, the whole protected by seven batteries, mounting upwards of 100 pieces of cannon. On his return home in 1808, Lieut. Kennedy was appointed to the 74, Capt. Geo. Cockburn, and ordered to the West Indies; on his arrival on which station he was invested with the acting-command, on 28 Oct. in the same year, of the Port d’Espagne sloop, in which, we understand, he contributed to the reduction of Martinique. At the period of his official promotion to the rank he now holds, which took place 2 June, 1809, our officer had charge of the sloop. In the course of 1810 he obtained successive command of the, , and , all on the Halifax station; where, and again in the West Indies, he served until April, 1814. He has since been unemployed. The, on 5 May, 1813, assisted, in company with the sloop, in capturing the Mary Ann American privateer of 2 guns and 30 men. – Hallett and Robinson.

 KENNEDY. 

(b) entered the Navy in Nov. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 80, Capt. Sir Edw. Pellew, employed off the coast of Spain; and in 1804, on that officer hoisting his flag in the 74, sailed with him for the East Indies. In Dec. 1805 he became Midshipman of the 36, commanded by the present Sir Josiah Coghill, but, rejoining the  in Dec. 1806, was afforded an opportunity of witnessing the destruction, 11 Dec. 1807, of the dockyard