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==Early Life & Career==
 
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Kennedy was promoted to the rank of {{RearRN}} on 29 November, 1889, [[Algernon Charles Fiesché Heneage‎|Heneage]].<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/25998/pages/6928 no. 25998.  p. 6928.]  3 December, 1889.</ref>
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On the occasion of King George V's coronation he was promoted Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath (G.C.B) on 19 June, 1911.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28505/supplements/4588 (Supplement) no. 28505.  p. 4588.]  19 June, 1911.</ref>
 
On the occasion of King George V's coronation he was promoted Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath (G.C.B) on 19 June, 1911.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28505/supplements/4588 (Supplement) no. 28505.  p. 4588.]  19 June, 1911.</ref>
  

Revision as of 09:57, 20 July 2011

Admiral Sir William R. Kennedy.
Photograph: Navy & Army Illustrated.

Admiral SIR William Robert Kennedy, G.C.B., Royal Navy (4 March, 1838 – 9 October, 1916) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Early Life & Career

Kennedy was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 29 November, 1889, Heneage.[1]

On the occasion of King George V's coronation he was promoted Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath (G.C.B) on 19 June, 1911.[2]

Footnotes

  1. London Gazette: no. 25998. p. 6928. 3 December, 1889.
  2. London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 28505. p. 4588. 19 June, 1911.

Bibliography

  • "Death of Admiral Sir W. R. Kennedy" (Obituaries). The Times. Thursday, 10 October, 1916. Issue 41294, col C, pg. 11.
  • Kennedy, Captain W. R., R.N. (1876). Sporting Adventures in the Pacific, Whilst in Command of the "Reindeer". London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.
  • Kennedy, Captain W. R., R.N. (1885). Sport, Travel, and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies. London: William Blackwood and Sons.
  • Kennedy, Admiral (1892). Sporting Sketches in South America. London: R. H. Porter.
  • Kennedy, Vice-Admiral Sir William, K.C.B. (1900). Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor! Fifty Years in the Royal Navy. London: William Blackwood and Sons.

Service Records


Naval Offices
Preceded by
Frederick C. B. Robinson
Commander-in-Chief on the
East Indies Station

1892 – 1895
Succeeded by
Edmund C. Drummond
Preceded by
Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith
Commander-in-Chief at the Nore
1900 – 1901
Succeeded by
Albert H. Markham