|
Kennard Baronets
The Kennard Baronetcy, of Fernhill in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 February 1891 for the five-year-old Coleridge Kennard. The baronetcy was originally intended for his grandfather and namesake Coleridge Kennard, co-founder of the ''Evening News'' and M.P. for Salisbury 1882-1885, who had died before the patent was gazetted. His grandmother Ellen Georgiana Kennard had on 17 January 1892 been granted the style and precedence as if her husband had been created a baronet. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1999 as his only son predeceased him. Kennard baronets, of Fernhill (1891) *Sir Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, 1st Baronet Sir Coleridge 'Roy' Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, 1st Baronet (12 May 1885 – 7 October 1948) was a wealthy English diplomat. He is mostly remembered as a supporter and literary confidant of Ronald Firbank. Parentage Kennard was the only child of H ... (1885� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baronetage Of The United Kingdom
Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I created the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611, for the settlement of Ireland. He offered the dignity to 200 gentlemen of good birth, with a clear estate of £1,000 a year, on condition that each one should pay a sum equivalent to three years' pay to 30 soldiers at 8d per day per man (total – £1,095) into the King's Exchequer. The Baronetage of England comprises all baronetcies created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Baronetage of England and the Baronetage of Nova Scotia were replaced by the Baronetage of Great Britain. The extant baronetcies are listed below in order of precedence (i.e. date). All other baronetcies, including extinct, dormant (D), unproven (U), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coleridge Kennard (Salisbury MP)
Coleridge John Kennard (6 October 1828 – 25 December 1890) was a Conservative Party politician. Kennard was the third son of banker John Peirse Kennard, of Hordle Cliff, Hampshire, and Sophia, daughter of Sir John Chapman, M.D., F.R.C.S., of Windsor.Modern English Biography vol II, I-Q, Frederic Boase, Netherton & Worth, 1897, p. 193 He first stood for election in Salisbury in 1880 but was unsuccessful. However, he was then elected MP for the constituency at a by-election in 1882, but lost the seat when it was reduced to one member in 1885. Just prior to his death, Kennard was expected to be created a baronet. However, upon his death, his grandson Coleridge Kennard received the title. During his life, he was Deputy Lieutenant of London and a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire. He was a managing director of Heywood, Kennard and Co. bank, and co-founder of the Evening News Evening News may refer to: Television news *''CBS Evening News'', an American news broadcast *'' IT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening News (London)
The ''Evening News'', earlier styled as ''The Evening News'', and from 1889 to 1894 The Evening News and Post, was an evening newspaper published in London from 1881 to 1980, reappearing briefly in 1987. It became highly popular under the control of the Harmsworth brothers. For a long time it maintained the largest daily sale of any evening newspaper in London. After financial struggles and falling sales, it was eventually merged with its long-time rival the ''Evening Standard'' in 1980. The newspaper was revived for an eight-month period in 1987. Early history The newspaper was founded by Coleridge Kennard and Harry Marks. The first issue appeared on 26 July 1881. It was the first popular evening paper in London. It was priced at one halfpenny, distinguishing itself from the more serious penny papers such as ''The Times''. The first issues were printed on light blue paper, and later editions on yellow and green paper. The rivalry between halfpenny papers in the late 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Coleridge Kennard, 1st Baronet
Sir Coleridge 'Roy' Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, 1st Baronet (12 May 1885 – 7 October 1948) was a wealthy English diplomat. He is mostly remembered as a supporter and literary confidant of Ronald Firbank. Parentage Kennard was the only child of Helen (née Wyllie) Kennard (1856–1928) and Lieutenant Hugh Coleridge Downing Kennard (1859–1886) of the 1st Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, who married in 1883. After his father's death in 1886, his mother remarried to James Laurence Carew, an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament, in 1896. Baronetcy and fortune In 1891, the then five-year-old Kennard was created baronet of Fernhill in the County of Southampton. The baronetcy was originally intended for his grandfather and namesake Coleridge Kennard, co-founder of the ''Evening News'' and Member of Parliament for Salisbury from 1882 to 1885, who had died on 25 December 1890, before the patent was gazetted. His grandmother Ellen Georgiana Kennard had on 17 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kennard
Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Arnold Ford Kennard, 3rd Baronet (27 April 1915 – 13 December 1999) was an English soldier and author. He served in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars. His autobiography, ''Loopy'', was published in 1990. Life He was a younger son of Sir Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, 1st Baronet, and educated at Eton College. The title eventually passed to Sir George upon the death of his childless brother, Sir Lawrence. A member of the 4th Hussars, Kennard was captured during World War II in Germany, where he was a prisoner of war until the United States Army liberated him.Obituary, ''The Times'', 22 December 1999 Family Kennard was married four times: *Firstly, in 1940, to Cecilia Violet Maunsell, only daughter of Cecil John Cokayne Maunsell, and Wilhelmine Violet Eileen FitzClarence (daughter of the 2nd Earl of Munster); they had one daughter, and the marriage was dissolved in 1958. *Secondly, in 1958, to Mollie Jessie Rudd Miskin, daughter of Hugh Wyllie. *Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
