Sir John Henry Kennaway, 3rd Baronet, (6 June 1837 – 6 September 1919) was an

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politician.

Early life and education

Kennaway was born on 6 June 1837 in Park Crescent, London, England, to Sir John Kennaway, 2nd Baronet and Emily Frances Kennaway (née Kingscote). He was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

, an all-boys

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in London. He studied law and modern history at

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, graduating with a first class

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(BA) degree.

Career

Political career

Kennaway was

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(MP) for East Devon from 1870 to 1885, when the constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. He was then MP for the new Honiton constituency from 1885 until the

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. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1897 and appointed CB in the

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. From 1908 to 1910 he was Father of the House of Commons.

Other work

He was

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in 1864. He practiced as a

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in the western circuit. He was a governor at the Kings School Ottery St Mary. As homage to him the school has named one of its houses after him—Kennaway. Kennaway served as an officer in the

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for forty-two years. He was

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of the

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, from 1896 to 1902, when he was appointed its Honorary Colonel, a position he retained when it was merged into the

4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment The Exeter & South Devon Volunteers was the premier unit of Britain's Volunteer Force. Formed in 1852 it went on to become a battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. Both its active service battalions went to garrison British Raj, India on the outbr ...

, in the

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in 1908.

Church of England

Kennaway was active in the

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. He was a low church, evangelical Anglican, who supported the

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. He was a member of the

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which campaigned against Anglo-Catholicism, but he spoke against the

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that would allow legal actions again ritualist priests. In 1904, he was appointed as a member of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline:Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline; The Commission
at anglicanhistory.org it reported in 1906, recommending the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874. He served as President of the

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and of the

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