Kennard (surname)
Kennard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Beulah Elfreth Kennard, American educator and writer * Bob Kennard, Welsh writer and agriculturist * Caroline Kennard (1827-1907), amateur scientist and advocate of women's rights * Clyde Kennard, American civil rights activist * Coleridge Kennard (other), Coleridge Kennard (other) * Devon Kennard, American football linebacker * Earle Hesse Kennard, physicist * Francis J. Kennard, American architect * Hugh Kennard, World War II RAF officer and post-war owner of a number of airlines * John Kennard (other) ** Jonathan Kennard, English racing driver * Joyce Kennard, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California * Luke Kennard (other) ** Luke Kennard (poet) (born 1981), British poet and critic ** Luke Kennard (basketball) (born 1996), American basketball player * Margaret Kennard, neurologist * Matt Kennard (other), Matthew Kennard (other) ** Matt Kennard (actor) ...
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Beulah Elfreth Kennard
Beulah Elfreth Kennard (August 3, 1869 – November 8, 1949) was an American lecturer and writer. She served as the educational director of the Association of Department Store Workers, president of the Pennsylvania Association of Women Workers, and president of the Pittsburgh Playground Association from 1900 to 1918. Early years and education Beulah Elfreth Kennard was born on August 3, 1869, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Reverend Joseph Spencer Kennard and Nancy Reid Jeffers. She was a graduate of Chicago schools, 1887; and received an honorary A.M. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, 1912. Career Kennard opened Pittsburgh's first public playground at the Forbes School Yard on July 6, 1896. She went on to become president of the Pittsburgh Playground Association from 1900 to 1918. Kennard favored woman suffrage; and served on the Advisory Board Pennsylvania State Suffrage Association. She was a member of the Board of Public Education, 1912–13; as well a ...
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Luke Kennard (poet)
Luke Kennard (born 1981) is a British poet, critic, novelist and lecturer. He won an Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. In 2021, the seven ... in 2005 for his first collection ''The Solex Brothers''. His second collection, ''The Harbour Beyond The Movie'', was shortlisted for the 2007 Forward Prize for Best Collection, making him the youngest ever poet to be nominated. In 2014 he was named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets. His debut novel, ''The Transition'', was published by Fourth Estate in March 2017. The novel was a BBC Radio 4 '' Book at Bedtime''. His poetry collection ''Notes on the Sonnets'' won the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Publications * ''The Solex Brothers'' (2005) * ''The Harbour Beyond The Movie'' (2007) * ''T ...
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Kennard Baronets
The Kennard Baronetcy, of Fernhill in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 February 1891 for the five-year-old Coleridge Kennard. The baronetcy was originally intended for his grandfather and namesake Coleridge Kennard, co-founder of the ''Evening News'' and M.P. for Salisbury 1882-1885, who had died before the patent was gazetted. His grandmother Ellen Georgiana Kennard had on 17 January 1892 been granted the style and precedence as if her husband had been created a baronet. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1999 as his only son predeceased him. Kennard baronets, of Fernhill (1891) *Sir Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, 1st Baronet Sir Coleridge 'Roy' Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, 1st Baronet (12 May 1885 – 7 October 1948) was a wealthy English diplomat. He is mostly remembered as a supporter and literary confidant of Ronald Firbank. Parentage Kennard was the only child of H ... (1885†...
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William Kennard
William Earl Kennard (born January 19, 1957) is an American attorney and former government official. Kennard served as List of chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton, and was the first African Americans, African American to lead the agency. In 2009, Kennard was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as U.S. Ambassador, Ambassador to the European Union, serving until 2013. During his time in the private sector, Kennard was managing director of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm. He has also served on the board of directors of several public and private corporations. Early life and career Kennard was born January 19, 1957, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Robert A. Kennard, was a renowned architect who owned the oldest African-American architecture firm in Los Angeles. The youngest of three children, Kennard grew up in the Hollywood Hills, a ...
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Sean Kennard
Sean Eric Kennard (born October 3, 1984) is an American classical pianist. Early years Sean Kennard was born in San Diego, California to a Japanese mother and American father. He grew up in Hawaii and his family moved to Philadelphia when he began studying at the Curtis Institute of Music, at age 13. Kennard began lessons at the Ellen Masaki School of Music on his tenth birthday, October 3, 1994 in Honolulu, Hawaii and began studies with Ellen Masaki on January 5, 1995.Piano Boy
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Robert Kennard
Robert William Kennard JP DL (1800–1870) was a London-born merchant, financier, entrepreneur, JP and later Member of Parliament. The son of jeweller turn banker John Kennard ( Heywood, Kennards & Co, merged into Consolidated Bank Ltd), and Harriet Elizabeth Peirse, he trained as a merchant in London. Having invested in the Falkirk Iron Company in 1830, Kennard's consortia formed the Blaenavon Coal and Iron Company in 1836, which subsequently bought the Blaenavon Ironworks. There he employed his son, the noted civil engineer Thomas Kennard, and his cousin and the later photographer George Swan Nottage. Through his connections with the iron and steel industries, and access to large sums of money through his families banking connections, he became a significant financier during the railway boom of the 1830s, and also financed some of the government requirements during the Crimea War. Leveraging this, Kennard made his fortune as a director of several UK railway companies, an ...
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Matt Kennard (journalist)
Matthew "Matt" Kennard (born 1983 in London, England) is an English author and journalist. He is head of investigations at the investigative journalism website ''Declassified UK'', which he co-founded with author and historian Mark Curtis. Kennard has previously written for the ''New Statesman'', ''The Guardian'', the ''Financial Times'', ''openDemocracy'' and ''The Intercept''. He has also appeared on Novara Media. In 2006, while a student journalist, Kennard accused then Leeds University lecturer Frank Ellis of racism and was interviewed on the ''Today'' programme on BBC Radio 4. During this period, Kennard wrote for ''Leeds Student''. He also broke the story in the UCLA student paper, the ''Daily Bruin'', of attempts by Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz to suppress the publication of Norman Finkelstein's ''Beyond Chutzpah'' by the University of California Press. Kennard is the author of ''Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals ...
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Matt Kennard (actor)
Matthew Kennard (born 12 February 1982) is an English television actor, best known for his role as nurse Archie Hallam in the BBC One soap opera ''Doctors''. Career Kennard was born in Grimsby, Humberside, and has played roles in soap operas including ''Coronation Street'', '' Hollyoaks'' and ''Doctors''. He also starred as Manchester United footballer Duncan Edwards in a BBC dramatisation of the 1958 Munich air disaster. One of Kennard's earlier roles was in the series ''Love in the 21st Century'', broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999 and created by Red Productions, who were previously responsible for ''Queer as Folk''. Kennard's character is seduced by a school teacher who believes she is giving him experience, although it later transpires he had made a bet that he could sleep with her. Kennard left a regular role in the soap opera, ''Doctors'', on 27 April 2009, to concentrate on film work, including featuring in ''Born of Hope'' with his brother Sam. He appeared in the seven ...
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Matt Kennard (other)
Matt Kennard may refer to: * Matt Kennard (actor) (born 1982 in Grimsby, England, UK, as Matthew Kennard), English television actor * Matt Kennard (journalist) (born 1983 in London, England, UK, as Matthew Kennard), English author and journalist See also * Kennard (surname) Kennard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Beulah Elfreth Kennard, American educator and writer * Bob Kennard, Welsh writer and agriculturist * Caroline Kennard (1827-1907), amateur scientist and advocate of women's rights * ...

Margaret Kennard
Margaret Alice Kennard (September 25, 1899—December 12, 1975) was a neurologist who principally studied the effects of neurological damage on primates. Her work led to the creation of the Kennard Principle, which posits a negative linear relationship between age of a brain lesion and the outcome expectancy: in other words, that the earlier in life a brain lesion occurs, the more likely it is for some compensation mechanism to reverse at least some of the lesion's bad effects. Biography Kennard's father was a notable landscape architect and naturalist; her paternal grandparents were the businessman and abolitionist Martin Kennard and the naturalist and women's rights activist Caroline Smith Kennard. Kennard graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1922. She earned a Rockefeller Traveling Fellowship for study in Western Europe from 1934 to 1936.Finger, Stanley. ''Margaret Kennard on Sparing and Recovery of Function: A Tribute on The 100th anniversary of Her Birth''. Journal of the His ...
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Luke Kennard (basketball)
Luke Douglas Kennard (born June 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils and was drafted by the Detroit Pistons with the 12th pick in the 2017 NBA draft. High school career Kennard attended Franklin High School in Franklin, Ohio near Dayton. As a senior, he was named the ''Parade'' National Player of the Year. He was named the Ohio Gatorade Basketball Player of the Year as junior and senior. He was also a star quarterback in football, and though he shot with his left hand in basketball, he threw with his right hand in football. Finishing high school, Kennard was one of the most sought after recruits in the nation. He was ranked as the No. 24 prospect in his recruiting class by ESPN. Kennard committed to Duke University to play college basketball during his junior year of high school. He finished his career with the second most ...
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Luke Kennard (other)
Luke Kennard may refer to: * Luke Kennard (poet) (born 1981), British poet and critic * Luke Kennard (basketball) (born 1996), American basketball player See also * Lucas Kennard, Hawaiian American-football player on the 2007 Hawaii Warriors football team * Kennard (surname) Kennard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Beulah Elfreth Kennard, American educator and writer * Bob Kennard, Welsh writer and agriculturist * Caroline Kennard (1827-1907), amateur scientist and advocate of women's rights * ...