Myles Burton Kennedy (1862–1928) was a

Furness Furness ( ) is a peninsula and region of Cumbria in northwestern England. Together with the Cartmel Peninsula it forms North Lonsdale, historically an exclave of Lancashire. The Furness Peninsula, also known as Low Furness, is an area of vill ...

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, the proprietor of

Roanhead Roanhead (sometimes spelled Ronhead) refers to the limestone outcrop of Roanhead Crag in Cumbria and the farmland behind it, but in recent years the term has been taken to mean the sandy beaches adjoining Sandscale Haws extending to Snab Point. T ...

mines, and chairman of the North Lonsdale Iron & Steel Company.Cumbria Records Office, Barrow, BDB47 box 16 Directors minutes of the NLI Co.

Parentage

Myles B. Kennedy's grandfather was Charles Storr Kennedy who, with Henry Kennedy of Brighton, held 4 X 1/18th shares in the

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Mining Company when it was established in 1838. C. S. Kennedy's shares were sold to

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before 1857. By then he had taken leases on Green Haume, Mackinon and

mines. Greenhaume was soon exhausted and the Askham mine was lost in the legal dispute, ''Wakefield v. Buccleuch'', but Roanhead was a winner. The first Myles Kenedy was born at Fair View in 1835. He was educated at the

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.A few Furness Worthies, Robert Casson, 1889 He married Margaret Rowley in 1861 and had 15 children. He was also a captain in the volunteer corps. Charles Storr Kennedy died in 1857 and his sons Charles Burton and Myles carried on the business as "Kennedy Brothers". C. B. Kennedy died in 1865. His brother commissioned Stone Cross in 1874 and was made vice chairman of the North Lonsdale Ironworks Co at its inauguration in 1873. He died in 1883.

Career

On the death of his father, Myles Burton inherited a controlling interest in the firm of Kennedy Brothers. He was appointed to the board of the North Lonsdale ironworks in 1889 and later became chairman. He also became chairman of the Whitehaven Haematite Iron Co. He was managing owner of the steam ketch "Harvest" from 1890. On his death he was succeeded as proprietor of Roanhead mines by his son,

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Other Interests

In his youth he played football and cricket for Ulverston, and was vice president of the hound trail association at its inauguration. As Wor Bro. Myles Kennedy, PM, PPCV, he laid the foundation stone of Ulverston

masonic lodge A Masonic lodge, often termed a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry. It is also commonly used as a term for a building in which such a unit meets. Every new lodge must be warranted or chartered ...

on 31st October 1905. He was a JP and opened Ulverston Coronation Hall in 1904. He was a commander in the volunteer corps and managed a shooting range at

Sandscale Haws Sandscale Haws is a national nature reserve on the Duddon Estuary, Cumbria, England. It is managed by the National Trust. Resident species include the natterjack toad. Industrial history Sandscale brick and tile works appears on the 1850 Ordnan ...

. He served as

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.Obituary Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 13 November 1928 from British Newspaper archive

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kennedy, Myles Burton Furness Industrial history of the United Kingdom Defunct mining companies of the United Kingdom English ironmasters 1862 births 1928 deaths