chief successes were gained in male parts: Artaxerxes (to Miss Catley's Mandane, 25 Jan. 1777), Belford in ‘Love Finds the Way,’ Colin in Dibdin's ‘Rose and Colin,’ and other musical farces, and especially as Captain Macheath in the ‘Beggar's Opera’ in October 1777, when protests were raised against the personation of the hero by a woman, and the introduction by her of Arne's ‘A-hunting we will go.’
Mrs. Farrell married Dr. Kennedy on 24 Jan. 1779. She sang Young Meadows in ‘Love in a Village,’ and Don Carlos in the ‘Duenna’ in that year. Mrs. Kennedy's other parts, which were all performed at Covent Garden, were Don Alphonso, with Sestini as Lorenza (‘Castle of Andalusia,’ 2 Nov. 1782), William (‘Rosina,’ 31 Dec. 1782), Pat (‘Poor Soldier,’ 4 Nov. 1783), Margaret (17 April) and Allen-a-Dale (‘Robin Hood,’ 13 Oct. 1784), a Jockey (‘Fontainebleau,’ 16 Nov. 1784), Oediddee (‘Omai,’ 20 Dec. 1785), Saib (‘Love and War,’ 12 March 1787), Peggy (‘Marian,’ 22 May 1788), Huncamunca (‘Tom Thumb,’ 3 June 1788), and Mrs. Casey in ‘Fontainebleau,’ for Mrs. Billington's benefit, 20 May 1789.
Mrs. Kennedy also sang at concerts, Vauxhall Gardens, the Drury Lane oratorios (1778–84), the Handel commemorations of 1784, 1786, and 1791, and the fête at Frogmore in 1791 (Parke; Papendiek). She died at Bayswater House on 23 Jan. 1793.
[A B C Dario, p. 29; Papendiek's Journal, i. 225, 256, ii. 254, 295; Parke's Musical Memoirs, i. 27, 132; New Morning Post for 7 Dec. 1776; Morning Chronicle, 7 Dec. 1776; Public Advertiser, 18 Oct. 1777, and 1776–89 passim; European Mag. xxiii. 160.]
KENNEDY, ALEXANDER (1695?–1785?), founder of a family of eminent violin-makers, was born in Scotland about 1695. He came to London early in the eighteenth century, and his place of business between 1740 and 1750 is variously described on the labels placed in his instruments as ‘Oxford Market’ and ‘Market Street, Oxford Road.’ He made nothing but violins, which he built on the high German, or ‘Stainer’ model, and varnished them with a brownish-yellow spirit-varnish. He died about 1785 or 1786. His nephew, John Kennedy (1730?–1816), born about 1730, was apprenticed to him, and subsequently worked by himself in Cooper's Gardens, near Shoreditch Church, in Houghton Street, in Clement's Lane, Clare Market, and in Long Alley, Sun Street, Moorfields, where he died in poor circumstances in 1816, aged 86. He was buried in Shoreditch churchyard. At one time he was prosperous, and employed several assistants; but they made only violins and tenors of the high German model, no violoncellos of his make being known. His instruments were of careful second-rate manufacture, and were made principally for the music-shops. He was married three times, and by his third wife had a son, Thomas Kennedy (1784–1870?), the best-known maker of the family. He was born in Houghton Street, Clare Market, 21 Jan. 1784, and after being some time engaged in his father's shop was apprenticed to Thomas Powell (17 June 1795). At the beginning of this century he worked sometimes for William Forster, jun. (whose son was subsequently apprenticed to him), but soon set up on his own account in Princes Street, Westminster. Thence he moved to 364 Oxford Street, where he worked for thirty-three years. Like his father, he worked a great deal for the music-trade, and, being a rapid and neat workman, was one of the most prolific of English makers. In 1864 he told his biographer that ‘he must have made at least three hundred violoncellos, and the other instruments in proportion—perhaps not quite so many.’ In June 1849 he retired from business, and in 1864 was living in Cumming Place, Pentonville, where he died about 1870. He was married, but had no family. He instructed in violin-making an old Spitalfields silk-weaver, named James Brown (d. 1830), who, like his son and pupil, James Brown the younger (1786–1860), was a good second-rate workman.
[Sandys and Forster's History of the Violin, Lond. 1864, in which is incorporated information derived from Thomas Kennedy.]
KENNEDY, Sir ARTHUR EDWARD (1810–1883), colonial governor, born on 9 April 1810, was fourth son of Hugh Kennedy of Cultra, co. Down, by Grace Dora, daughter of John Hughes. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, entered the army in 1827 as ensign in the 27th foot, became captain of the 68th regiment in 1840, and retired from the army in 1848. He had previously, in 1846, been appointed poor-law inspector for Ireland, and during the subsequent Irish famine (1847) he served on Sir John Burgoyne's relief committee. He received his first appointment in the colonial service as governor of Gambia in 1851, and in the following year exchanged that post for the governorship of Sierra Leone. He served in the same capacity in Western Australia from 1854 to 1862, when the companionship of the Bath was conferred upon him. Transferred to Vancouver's Island in 1863, and thence to the West African settlements in 1867, he was knighted in 1868, and in 1872
