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 man of great ability and of great simplicity, thoroughly unworldly and disinterested.

He married, on 2 Oct. 1838, in Dublin, Anna Maria, daughter of Charles Style of Glenmore, Stranorlar, co. Donegal, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. His wife, one son, Charles Napier Kennedy, and his daughter, Mrs. Florence Martin, survived him.

The following is a list of his works: 1. ‘Instruct; Employ; Don't Hang them: or Ireland Tranquilized without Soldiers and Enriched without English Capital,’ 8vo, London, 1835. 2. ‘Regulations for Promoting Agricultural Instruction and Agricultural Employment, and for Improving the Conditions of the People and Lands of Lough Ash and the Adjoining District,’ 8vo, London, 1835. 3. ‘Analysis of Projects proposed for the Relief of the Poor of Ireland,’ 8vo, London and Dublin, 1837. 4. ‘Lectures on Agriculture,’ Royal Dublin Society, 1841. 5. ‘Correspondence on some of the General Effects of the Failure of the Potato Crop and the consequent Relief Measures, with Suggestions,’ &c., 8vo, Dublin, 1847. 6. ‘Digest of Evidence taken before H.M. Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the Law and Practice in respect of the Occupation of Land in Ireland,’ pt. i. 1847, pt. ii. 1848, 2 vols. 8vo, Dublin. 7. ‘A Railway Caution: or Exposition of Changes required in the Law and Practice of the British Empire, to enable the Poorer Districts to provide for themselves the benefit of Railway Intercourse,’ &c., 8vo, Calcutta, 1849. 8. ‘Report addressed to the Railway Proprietors of Great Britain and Ireland, and more especially to the Proprietors of the Waterford and Limerick Line,’ 8vo, 1849. 9. ‘Road-making in the Hills. Principles and Rules having special reference to the New Road from Kalka viâ Simla to Kunawur and Thibet,’ 8vo, Agra, 1850. 10. ‘Report on the Proposed Railway in Bengal.’ See ‘Selections from the Records of the Government of India,’ No. 1, 8vo, Calcutta, 1853. 11. ‘Finances, Military Occupation, Government, and Industrial Development of India,’ 8vo, London, 1858. 12. ‘On the Financial and Executive Administration of the British Indian Empire,’ 8vo, London, 1859. 13. ‘National Defensive Measures, their Necessity, Description, Organization, and Cost,’ 8vo, London, 1860. 14. ‘British Home and Colonial Empire. Part i.: Mutual Relations and Interests,’ fol. London, 1865; reprinted 1869. ‘Part ii.: India, Requirements for the Development of Industry,’ fol. London, 1869. 15. ‘Railway Gauge, considered in relation to the Bulk and Weight of Goods to be Conveyed, more especially in India,’ fol. London, 1872.

[The Colonies, by Charles James Napier, London, 1833; Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., by Lieutenant-general Sir William Napier, K.C.B., 4 vols. 8vo, London, 1857; Proc. Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. lix.; Royal Engineers Journal, ix. 169; Corp. Records; private papers; Times, 8 July 1879.]  KENNEDY, PATRICK (1801–1873), Irish miscellaneous writer, was born in the county of Wexford early in 1801. Having obtained a fair education through the philanthropy of the Carew family, he became in 1823 assistant in a training school in Kildare Place, Dublin, and a few years subsequently established a bookseller's shop and circulating library in Anglesea Place, where he carried on business till his death on 28 March 1873. He devoted much time to study, especially of popular Irish mythology and antiquities. His entertaining manual of Hibernian folklore, ‘Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,’ 1866, originated, like other of his published works, in contributions to the ‘Dublin University Magazine.’ ‘The greater part of the stories and legends in this volume,’ he says, ‘are given as they were received from the story-tellers with whom our youth is familiar.’ Passing under Kennedy's revision, the style has become somewhat too close to that of ordinary literary English, but they are nevertheless pithy and humorous. A new edition appeared in 1892. Kennedy also published ‘The Banks of the Boro, a Chronicle of the County of Wexford,’ 1867; ‘Evenings in the Duffrey,’ 1869; ‘The Bardic Stories of Ireland,’ 1871; and, under the pseudonym of Harry Whitney, ‘Legends of Mount Leinster,’ 1855. He was for many years a frequent contributor to the ‘Dublin University Magazine,’ and also wrote in the ‘Dublin Review.’ He seems to have been a most amiable and interesting man, with the one fault of excessive diffidence.

[Webb's Compendium of Irish Biog.; Read's Irish Cabinet; Memoir in Dublin Univ. Mag. vol. lxxxi., apparently by J. Sheridan Lefanu; information from Mr. F. L. Kennedy.]  KENNEDY, QUINTIN (1520–1564), abbot, was son of Gilbert Kennedy, second earl of Cassillis [q. v.], and his wife Isabel, daughter of the second Earl of Argyll. He was born in 1520, and received his early education at St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews. He afterwards went to the university of Paris, where he studied theology and civil and canon law. Returning to Scotland, he became vicar of Girvan, and in 1547 