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Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy QC (2 July 1819 – 16 April 1880) was an Irish
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and writer. He is best remembered as counsel for the
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and the eccentric and disturbed conduct of the
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that led to his ruin.


Early life

He was born on Nile Street (now Sheares Street),
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, the son of a local merchant. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1840 and to the English Bar in 1847. He obtained a fair practice in
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cases. In 1868 he became a QC and a bencher of
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. He practised on the
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and in the
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and his most famous cases included:Hamilton (2004) *Defence of Francis Looney and William Dowling against charges of treason-felony, (1848); *Junior counsel in the unsuccessful defence of
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er William Palmer, (1856); *Defence of
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and his accomplice Casey during the Fenian Rising, (1867). Kenealy withdrew from the case following the failed attempt to effect their escape in the
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. *Prosecution of the directors of
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for fraud following the company's collapse, (1869); * Counsel for
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, alias Roger Tichborne, taking over the brief from
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in April 1873.


Private life

Kenealy suffered from
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and an erratic temperament has sometimes been attributed to poor control of the symptoms. In 1850 he was sentenced to one month
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for punishing his six-year-old illegitimate son with undue severity. He married Elizabeth Nicklin of Tipton, Staffordshire in 1851 and they had eleven children, including novelist
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(1864–1938). The Kenealy family lived in
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"Memoirs of Edward Vaughn Kenealy. London: Kessinger. ." In 1850, he published an eccentric poem inspired by
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, ''Goethe, a New Pantomime''. He also published a large amount of poetry in journals such as '' Fraser's Magazine''. He published translations from
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, Greek, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Irish,
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. It is unlikely that he was fluent in all these languages. In 1866, Kenealy wrote ''The Book of God: the Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes'', an unorthodox
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work in which he claimed that he was the "twelfth messenger of God", descended from
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and
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. He also published a more conventional biography of Edward Wortley Montagu in 1869.


The Tichborne case

During the trial, Kenealy abused witnesses, made scurrilous allegations against various
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institutions, treated the judges with disrespect, and protracted the trial until it became the longest in English legal history. His violent conduct of the case became a public scandal and, after rejecting his client's claim, the jury censured his behaviour.


The aftermath

He started a newspaper, ''The Englishman'', to plead his cause, and to attack the judges. His behaviour was so extreme that in 1874 he was disbenched and
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by his
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. He formed the Magna Charta Association and went on a nationwide tour to protest his cause. At a by-election in 1875, he was elected to Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent with a majority of 2000 votes. However, no other Member of Parliament would introduce him when he took his seat.
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to dispense with this convention. In Parliament, Kenealy called for a Royal Commission into his conduct in the Tichborne case, but lost a vote on this by 433–3. One vote was Kenealy's, another that of his
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of
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HC Deb 23 April 1875 vol 223 cc1513-613 During this period, he also wrote a nine-volume account of the case. Dr Kenealy, as he was always called, gradually ceased to attract attention, lost his seat at the 1880 general election and died in London later in the year aged 60. He is buried in the churchyard of
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, East Sussex.


References


Bibliography

* *Hamilton, J. A., rev. R. McWilliam (2004)
Kenealy, Edward Vaughan Hyde (1819–1880)
, ''
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'', Oxford University Press, accessed 26 August 2007 * * *Waterhouse, G. (1952) "Goethe's Irish Enemy – Edward Kenealy", in Boyd, J. (ed.) ''German Studies presented to Leonard Ashley Willoughby – by pupils, colleagues and friends on his retirement'', Oxford: Blackwell


External links

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