Courtney William Alymer Thomas Kenny (25 December 1835 – 12 December 1905) was a 19th-century

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from the

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, New Zealand. Courtenay and his wife (Georgina Paulina Edith Kenny, 1835–1899) are reported to have arrived in

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on the ''

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'' on 23 December 1856 and to have established and named the Lochmara Run in Queen Charlotte Sound, centred on

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and what was to become Lochmara Bay in 1857. They later farmed ‘The Rocks’ in

, until their deaths. Courtenay Kenny is reported to have been born in India, probably

Moulmein Mawlamyine (also spelled Mawlamyaing; , ; th, เมาะลำเลิง ; mnw, မတ်မလီု, ), formerly Moulmein, is the fourth-largest city in Myanmar (Burma), ''World Gazetteer'' south east of Yangon and south of Thaton, at th ...

(now in Burma), to an Indian army officer. His wife was born in

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, Dumbarton, Scotland, also to an Indian army father. Both were educated in England. Kenny, having risen from ensign to captain in the

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, served in

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and then exchanged to the 94th (Scotch) Regiment. He was founding Captain of the Marlborough Volunteers 1860–61 and Marlborough Commissioner of Crown Lands 1862–66, then represented the Picton electorate from an 1868 by-election till 1881, when he retired. He was appointed to the

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on 15 May 1885 and served until his death on 12 December 1905.Guy Schofield (1950, 3rd edition) ''New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840–1949.'' Government Printer, Wellington, p 79

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