Norman Kennedy (17 March 1881 - 15 January 1960) was a

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He went to school at Rugby. He went to University College, Oxford. He played rugby union for

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. Kennedy played for West of Scotland.

Provincial career

He was capped by Glasgow District in

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playing in the match against

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. He played for Cities District against Provinces District on 24 January 1903.

International career

He was capped 3 times for the

international side, all in 1903.

Military career

He joined the Ayrshire Yeomanry in 1899. In the First World War he served with them in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine. He commanded the Yeomanry from 1924 to 1928 as Lieutenant Colonel. Twice mentioned in despatches he was awarded the D.S.O. He obtained the rank of Honorary Colonel.

Business career

Kennedy succeeded his father as a director of Robert Young Pickering co. in Wishaw. He remained a director until the Lithgow group was founded. He was a governing director of James Kennedy and Co. Ltd., a timber importers of Glasgow. They had extensive interests in the United States and Canada. The Head Office was 69 Buchanan Street in Glasgow, but they had branch offices in Bo'ness, Liverpool, London, and in Memphis, Tennessee. Through his timber importing connections, he was appointed as consul for

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in Glasgow. He became a director of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce in 1920 and in 1935 he was elected the President of the chamber. For a time, he was a director of

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and Co., the owners of the ''Glasgow Herald'' newspaper. He retired for health reasons in 1958. He became a director of the Bank of Scotland.

Farming career

His father James Kennedy took on a herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle at Doonholm. Both James and then Norman successfully exhibited their cattle in Scotland and in England. Norman became President of the Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society. He became chairman of the Agricultural Executive Committee for South Ayrshire; and for his work on that committee he was awarded a C.B.E. He was also made Deputy lieutenant of Ayrshire.

Family

Born in Old Kilpatrick, he was the only surviving son of James Kennedy of Doonholm. James Kennedy was one of the original directors of R.Y. Pickering when that company was founded in 1888. James Kennedy's mother was Eliza Pagan, daughter of James Pagan (1812-1870).

James Pagan James Pagan (18 October 1811 – 11 February 1870) was a Scottish reporter and managing editor for the ''Glasgow Herald'' and a noted antiquarian. He is credited with transitioning the ''Herald ''from a tri-weekly publication to one of the firs ...

was editor of the ''Glasgow Herald'' from 1856 to 1870. James Kennedy and Eliza Pagan had 4 daughters Alice, Gertrude, Nora and Myra; as well as sons Norman and William. Unfortunately William did not survive infancy. Norman was to marry Sylvia Bingham in 1915. Sylvia was the younger daughter of Brigadier General Edmund George Henry Bingham (Royal Artillery) and Beatrice Helen Stephen (1861-1949) who married in 1886 in Australia. Her mother Beatrice Helen had remarried when Bingham died in 1904, she married Hugh Palliser Hickman (1856-1930) in 1905. Norman Kennedy and Sylvia Bingham had two sons and two daughters.

References

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