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 not merely their classical perfection, gives his compositions in Greek and Latin their singular charm. Dr. William Hepworth Thompson [q. v.], master of Trinity, rightly said, ‘Kennedy is an original Latin poet’ (see Between Whiles, 2nd edit. p. ix, two-thirds of Gray's ‘Elegy’ translated in the train going from Cambridge to Devonshire). In politics he was a liberal, and in religious matters a staunch supporter of the established church, although intolerant of narrow sectarian prejudices. His general reading was exceptionally wide, and his memory unusually retentive. Of English history his knowledge was profound and minute; ‘few members of the united services could have vied with him in familiarity with naval and military annals; in Wellington's despatches he was as much at home as in Thucydides’ (Professor in Class. Rev. May 1889). He was a brilliant speaker, with a voice and gesture capable of every modulation. In society he was an excellent conversationalist, overflowing in anecdote and genial humour.

His chief published works are as follows: 1. ‘Elementary Latin Grammar,’ 1843. 2. ‘Græcæ Grammaticæ Institutio Prima,’ 1847. 3. ‘Child's Latin Primer,’ 1848. 4. ‘Sabrinæ Corolla,’ 1st edit. 1850, 2nd 1859, 3rd 1867, 4th 1890. 5. ‘Curriculum Stili Latini,’ 1858. 6. ‘Hymnologia Christiana,’ 1863. 7. ‘Public School Latin Primer,’ 1866. 8. ‘Child's Latin Accidence,’ 1869. 9. ‘Subsidia Primaria,’ in three parts; pts. i. and ii. 1870, pt. iii. 1873. 10. ‘Public School Latin Grammar,’ 1871. 11. ‘Studia Sophoclea,’ 1874. 12. ‘The Birds of Aristophanes translated into English Verse, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices,’ 1874. 13. ‘P. Vergilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis, with Commentary and Appendix,’ 1st edit. 1876, 2nd edit. 1879, 3rd edit. 1881. 14. ‘The Psalter or Psalms of David in English Verse,’ 1876. 15. ‘Occasional Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge and elsewhere,’ 1877. 16. ‘Between Whiles, or Wayside Amusements of a Working Life,’ 1st edit. 1877, 2nd edit. 1882. 17. ‘The Agamemnon of Æschylus, with Metrical Translation and Notes,’ 1st edit. 1878, 2nd edit. 1882. 18. ‘The Theætetus of Plato, with Translation and Notes,’ 1881. 19. ‘The Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, with Metrical Translation and Notes,’ 1st edit. 1882, 2nd edit. 1885. 20. ‘Ely Lectures on the Revised Version of the New Testament,’ 1882. 21. ‘Pauline Christology,’ 1883. 22. ‘Revised Latin Primer,’ 1888.

[Private information; autobiographical details in Between Whiles, 1st and 2nd edit.; Lord Lytton's Life of his father, vol. i.; Report of Her Majesty's Commission on Nine Public Schools, 4 vols. 1864; Classical Review, May and June 1889.] 

KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN (1808–1867), lawyer and scholar, born in 1808, was son of Rann Kennedy [q. v.], and brother of Benjamin Hall Kennedy [q. v.] He was educated at Shrewsbury and at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, and proceeded from the latter as an exhibitioner to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1828 he was elected a Bell scholar; in 1829 he became a scholar of the college. In 1829 and 1830 he obtained the Porson prize; in 1829 he won the Browne medal for a Greek ode, and in 1830 that for a Latin ode; he obtained the Pitt university scholarship in 1830. In 1831 he graduated B.A. as senior classic, and was elected fellow of his college; he proceeded M.A. in 1834. Kennedy entered at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar 19 Nov. 1835. At first he went the home circuit, and took part in the great case of Stockdale v. Hansard, but having been in the autumn of 1849 elected professor of law in Queen's College, Birmingham, he sent in the usual request to be allowed to join the midland circuit. To this the mess declined to assent, and the matter formed the subject of a pamphlet by Kennedy entitled ‘A Letter to the Lord Chancellor on Circuit Leagues’ (1850). In May 1856 Kennedy became the professional adviser of Mrs. Swinfen, the plaintiff in the famous will case of Swinfen v. Swinfen, and carried the litigation to a successful issue. A dispute, however, arose as to his remuneration, and on 26 March 1862 he brought an action against her for 20,000l. for the services rendered her. He obtained a verdict at the Warwick assizes, but it was overruled in the court of common pleas, the judges holding that a barrister could not sue for his fees, and a deed which Kennedy had obtained from Mrs. Swinfen, giving him a reversion to the Swinfen Hall estates in Staffordshire, was ordered to be delivered up by a judgment of the master of the rolls on 31 July 1863. Kennedy died at Birmingham 17 Dec. 1867. He was married and left a family.

Kennedy was a fine scholar and linguist. His classical publications include, in addition to pamphlets: 1. ‘Select Speeches of Demosthenes,’ Cambridge, 1841; a translation with notes suggested by Sir William Jones's translation of Isæus. 2. ‘Poems Original and Translated,’ 1843; a new edition 1859. 3. ‘The Works of Demosthenes,’ a translation for Bohn's Classical Library, London, 1848, 5 vols. ‘The Oration on the Crown’ was issued separately as part of Bohn's shilling series in 1888. 4. ‘The Works of Vir-