Sir John Kennaway, 3rd Baronet

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Sir John Henry Kennaway, 3rd Baronet PC (6 June 1837 – 6 September 1919) was an English Conservative Party politician.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Devon from 1870 to 1885, when the constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. He was then MP for the new Honiton constituency from 1885 until the January 1910 general election.

Kennaway was made a Privy Counsellor in 1897, and from 1908 to 1910 he was Father of the House of Commons. In 1904 he was appointed as a member[1] of the Royal Commission On Ecclesiastical Discipline, which reported in 1906, recommending the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.

He also served as President of the Church Missionary Society.

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

[edit] External links

• Sir John Henry Kennaway in the National Archives
• Portraits of Sir John Henry Kennaway at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Lawrence Palk Edward Baldwin Courtenay	Member of Parliament for East Devon 2-seat constituency with Sir Lawrence Palk 1870-1880 William Walrond 1880-1885 1870–1885	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Honiton 1885–1910	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell
Preceded by Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Father of the House 1908–1910	Succeeded by Thomas Burt
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by John Kennaway	Baronet (of Hyderabad) 1873–1919	Succeeded by John Kennaway