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she appeared at the Haymarket in the following characters : — On Oct. 25, 1869, as " Lilian Vavasour '* in " New Men and Old Acres ; " on Oct. 24, 1870, as " Lydia Langiiish " in "The Eivals;" on Nov. 19, 1870, as "Princess Zeolide" in "The Palace of Truth ; " on Dec. 9, 1871, as " Oalatea " in " Pygmalion and Galatea;" on Jan. 4, 1873, as "Selene ''in"The Wicked World j" and on Jan. 3, 1874, as " Mrs. Van Brugh" in "Charit^." The crea- tion of the character of "Lilian" gave Mrs. Kendal the position of the leading comMienne of the day. In Jan. 1875 she began a short engagement at the Opera Oomique, appearing, in the course of it, as " Pauline " in the " Lady of Lyons," "Rosalind" in "As You Like It," and "Miss Hardcastle" in "She Stoops to Conquer." In 1875 Mrs. Kendal joined the company orga- nized by Mr. Hare for the Court theatre, and whilst a member of it created the chief feminine rtUs in Mr. Coghlan's " Lady Flora," Mr. Aide's " Nine Days' Wonder," Mr. Gilbert's "Broken Hearts," and Mr. Palgrave Simpson's " Scrap of Paper." Afterwards she joined the Prmoe of Wales's theatre, then under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft. During this en- gagement she made one of the great " hits " of the season in the character of "Lady Ormond" in M. Sardou's "Peril;" but her greatest triumph was that which she achieved as " Dora " in the adaptation from M. Sardou called " Diplomacy." In Jan. 1879, after a successful tour in the provinces, Mrs. Kendal returned to the Court theatre, where she appeared as the "Countess d'Autreval" in "The Ladies' Battle," and as " Kate Gre- ville " in " The Queen's Shilling." In 1881 she joined the company at the Court theatre, under the joint management of Mr. Kendal and Mr. BjEtre.

KENNEDY, Captain Aubxan- DBB William Maxwell Clabk,

F.E.G.S., F.L.S., was born at Bochester, Sept. 26, 1851, being the eldest son of the late Colonel John Clark Kennedy, C.B., of Knockgray, N.B. He was educated at £ton, where, at the age of six- teen, he published "The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire ; a Contribution to the Ornithology of the Two Counties," 1868, by "an Eton boy." He entered the Coldstream Giiards as Ensign in 1870, became Lieutenant in 1872, and Lieutenant and Captain in 1874, and retired the same year. He is the author of various poems and verses, and of a work of travels "To the Arctic Begions and Back in Six Weeks," being travels in Lapland and Norway, 1878. He has contributed articles to the Ibis, Zoologist, Land and Water, The Field, and other natural history periodicals; and is a fellow of several learned societies. He is a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Kirkcudbrightshire, for which county he came forward as Conser- vative candidate at the general election of 1874, but retired.

KENNEDY, The Bbv. Binjaiom Hall, D.D., born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham, Nov. 6, 1804, eldest son of the late £ev. Bann Kennedy, incumbent of St. Paul's, Birmingham, and Second Master of King Edward's School in that town, author of "The Beign of Youth " and other poems, was edu- cated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Shrewsbury School, under Dr. BuUer. Entering St. John's College, Cambridge, he gained the Person Prize and Browne's Medal for Latin Ode in 1823 J the Pitt University Scholar- ship in his first year; Browne's Medal for Greek and Latin Odes, and the Person Prize in 1824; Browne's Medal for Epigrams in 1825 ; and the Potsou Prize a third time in 1826. He graduated B.A. as S#nior Classic and Senior Chan- cellor's Medallist in 1827, gained the Member's prize for a Latin