and stores at Griessee, in the island of Java, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in India. Between Jan. 1808 and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, 25 July, 1811, Mr. Kennedy served in various ships, principally on the Home station; after which we find him, until 1815, employed in the Mediterranean, on board the Centaur 74, Capt. Thos. White, Rainbow 26, Capts. Gardiner Henry Guion and Gawen Wm. Hamilton, Boyne 98, flagship of Lord Exmouth, and Aboukir 74, Capt. Norborne Thompson. When in the Rainbow he took command of her boats, and captured, off the island of Corsica, a lateen-rigged vessel, laden with oak-planks.[1] On 24 May, 1819, he assumed charge of the Hound Revenue-cruizer, as he also did, for some time, in 1821, of the Sylvia, a similar vessel. He attained his present rank 9 Oct. 1822, and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Kennedy married, 2 Feb. 1821, Elizabeth Rolleston, niece of A. Boyd, Esq., of Gostler, co. Donegal. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
KENNEDY. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 23; h-p., 16.)
Andrew Kennedy was born 24 Aug. 1787, at Devonport. His father was 55 years in the Service.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Jan. 1808, as a Volunteer, on board the Penelope 36, Capt. John Dick, under whom he served, as Midshipman, at the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809.[2] Until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 9 Feb. 1815, he was further actively employed on the Halifax and Newfoundland stations, chiefly as Master’s Mate, in the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, and Bellerophon 74, flag-ship of Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats. Between April and Sept. of the latter year we find him doing duty at Portsmouth in the Prince 98, bearing the successive flags of Sir Rich. Bickerton and Sir Edw. Thornbrough. He next, from June, 1824, until July, 1827, served on the North American and West India stations, as First of the Niemen 28, Capts. Wallis, Canning, and Simeon. He was subsequently appointed to the command – in Sept. 1828, of the African, the first Government steamer stationed between Corfu and Ancona, in which he was employed in carrying despatches relative to the war between Turkey and Russia, and also in communicating with the Pacha of Egypt on the subject of steam with India – 24 June, 1830, of the Hermes, another steam-vessel, also stationed in the Mediterranean – 27 Nov. 1832, and 4 June, 1834, of the Alban and Spitfire Falmouth packets – and, 27 Nov. 1838, of the Acheron steamer. In the Alban, the first steam-vessel that returned to England from the West Indies, Lieut. Kennedy went 208 miles up the river Orinoco, as far as Angostura, where no British man-of-war had ever before been. He proved, in the Spitfire, what had been before doubted, namely, the ability on the part of a steamer to resist the effects of a hurricane; and when in the Acheron, in which vessel he remained until Dec. 1841, he conveyed to Sir Robt. Stopford the despatches directing the attack upon St. Jean d’Acre, and afforded a passage to the British ambassador from Constantinople to Malta, and thence to Naples. He was advanced to his present rank 27 May, 1842, but has not been since employed.
Commander Kennedy married Maria, daughter of Dennis Pinnock, Esq., of the island of Jamaica, by whom he has issue six children.
KENNEDY. (Lieut„ 1838. f-p., 22; h-p., 1.)
Arthur Kennedy was born in March, 1811. This officer entered the Navy, 28 June, 1824, on board the Jaseur 18, Capt. Thos. Martin, and was soon afterwards severely hurt by a fall from aloft while on duty. The Jaseur being ordered to South America, he was afforded an opportunity of there witnessing the revolutionary proceedings in Brazil, Chili, and Peru. In 1828, on his arrival in the Mediterranean in the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, he was present, it appears, at the reduction of the Morea Castle. In the course of 1830 Mr. Kennedy successively joined the Donegal 76, Capt. Sir Jahleel Brenton, and Cordelia 10, Capt. Chas. Hotham, of which latter vessel, on his return to the Mediterranean, after having visited the West Indies and North America, he was created, in 1831, an Acting-Lieutenant by Sir Henry Hotham – the last appointment of the kind ever conferred by that Admiral. During this second sojourn in the Mediterranean, we find Mr. Kennedy affording protection to the trade against the pirates of Smyrna, and employed in the boats in cruizing against those in the neighbourhood of Grabusa. The Cordelia being paid off in 1834, he was at once appointed to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings. He next, in 1835, proceeded to South America in the Blonde 46, Commodore Fras. Mason, who, upon the death of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Michael Seymour, again gave him an order, as a reward for his services and conduct, to act as Lieutenant, although at the time there were 11 Mates on the station senior to him. About this period Mr. Kennedy was often engaged on shore with a party of men for the protection of British property during the civil commotions in Peru and Chili. He continued to serve in South America on board the Satellite 18, Capt. Robt. Smart, and again in the Blonde, until the return of the latter ship to England in 1837, when he immediately joined the Britannia 120, bearing the flag at Portsmouth of Sir Philip Chas. Durham. His appointments since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 6 Sept. 1838, have been – 26 June, 1839, to the Stag 46, Commodore Thos. Ball Sulivan, on the South American station – 25 Sept. 1839, to the Clio 16, Capt. Stephen Grenville Fremantle, employed in cruizing for slaves off Rio de Janeiro and other places – 28 April, 1841, to the Acorn 16, Capt. John Adams, on the coast of Africa, where, among a host of other captures, he assisted in taking, at the close of a running fight of nine hours, the pirartical slave-brig Gabriel, a vessel 10 feet longer than the Acorn, noted for its injury to commerce and the frequency of its insults to the British flag; as also, after a boat-chase of seven hours, the Minerva, having 550 slaves on board – and, 27 May, 1842 (four months after his health had obliged him to invalid), to the command of a station in the Coast Guard, which he still retains.
Lieut. Kennedy married, 25 Dec. 1840, Miss C. Jenkins, only daughter of A. Jenkins, Esq., of Navany, co. Donegal, by whom he has issue two children. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
KENNEDY. (Lieutenant, 1846.)
Charles Doyle Buckley Kennedy passed his examination 28 July, 1841; and served, as Mate, in the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, Hecate steam-vessel, Capt. Jas. Hamilton Ward, St. Vincent 120, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Rowley, Daring 12, Capt. Henry Jas. Matson, and Locust steamer, Lieut.-Commander Henry Eden, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. He obtained his commission 2 June, 1846, and has been since employed as First-Lieutenant of the Ceylon receiving-ship at Malta, Capt. Thos. Graves.
KENNEDY. (Lieut., 1841. f-p., 14; h-p., 0.)
John James Kennedy, born in April, 1821, at Waterford, is son of the Venerable Jas. Kennedy, Archdeacon of that place.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College in June, 1833, and embarked, in June, 1835, as a Volunteer, on board the Magicienne 24, Capt. Geo. Wm. St. John Mildmay, employed off the coasts of Spain and Portugal. Becoming Midshipman, in Nov. 1837, of the Favorite 18, Capt. Walter Croker, he proceeded in that vessel to the East Indies, where, in Oct. 1839, he joined the Wellesley 72, Capt.Thos. Maitland. Uniting afterwards in the operations against) China, Mr, Kennedy served, as Mate, either
