Kenneth William Stewart Kennedy was an

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in India from 1926 to 1936. He was born into an ecclesiastical family. His father was the

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Thomas Le Ban Kennedy Thomas Le Ban Kennedy (1813-1900) (1815-1900) was Dean of Clogher from 1873 to 1899. Kennedy was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1836 and served curacies in Aghancon, Ballymore Eustace and Sutton, Chesh ...

, sometime Dean of

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., educated at

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and

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and ordained in 1890. His first post was a curacy at St Ann's

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. Emigrating to

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, he was a

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priest with the

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Mission to Chota Nagpur and then continued to serve the same area with the SPG until 1926. Then he became its

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, a post he held for a decade. He was awarded the Kaisar-I-Hind Medal in 1933 and returned to his native

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three years later. His last post was that of

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of Rathmichael where he died on 9 December 1943.

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, Friday, 10 December 1943; pg. 4; Issue 49725; col F ''Obituary Dr K.W.S.Kennedy''

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Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Kennedy, Kenneth William Stewart People educated at The Royal School, Armagh Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 20th-century Anglican bishops in India Anglican bishops of Chota Nagpur Recipients of the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal 1943 deaths Year of birth missing