Roderick Kedward
Roderick Kedward may refer to: * Rev Roderick Kedward (politician) (1881–1937), British Liberal Party politician, MP for Ashford 1929–1931 * Roderick Kedward (historian) (1937–2023), British historian, grandson of the politician {{hndis, name=Kedward, Roderick ...
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Roderick Kedward (politician)
Rev. Roderick Morris Kedward (14 September 1881 – 5 March 1937) was a Wesleyan minister and a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. Roderick Kedward was born at Westwell in Kent, one of fourteen children of a local farmer, originally from Hereford but resident in Kent since the 1870s. He became a minister in 1903 having trained at Richmond College. In 1906, he married Daisy Fedrick and they had three sons and three daughters. In 1908, Kedward was made minister of three Wesleyan congregations in Hull and earned the nickname 'the fighting parson' for physically protecting a woman from her wife-beating husband. During the First World War, Kedward served in Egypt and France.The Times, 7 December 1923 He was invalided out of the army in October 1916 with 'trench fever' but served as president of ex-servicemen's associations after the war. Kedward unsuccessfully contested the Kingston upon Hull Central constituency at the 1918 general election, losing by a long way to ...
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