Sir John Kennaway, 3rd Baronet

The Right Honourable
Sir John Kennaway
Bt CB DL
The Right Honourable Sir John Kennaway Bt CB DL
	"Devonshire"; Kennaway as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1886
Member of Parliament ; for East Devon
	In office; 9 April 1870 – 25 June 1885 Serving with Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt (1870-1880) and The Lord Waleran (1880-1885)
Preceded by	Lord Courtenay
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament ; for Honiton
	In office; 26 June 1885 – 15 January 1910
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Clive Morrison-Bell

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

Early life and education

Kennaway was born on 6 June 1837 in Park Crescent, London, England, to Sir John Kennaway, 2nd Baronet and Emily Frances Kennaway (née Kingscote). He was educated at Harrow School, an all-boys public school in London. He studied law and modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.^[2]

Kennaway 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.

He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1897 and appointed CB in the 1902 Coronation Honours. From 1908 to 1910 he was Father of the House of Commons.

He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1864. He practiced as a barrister in the western circuit.^[2]

He was a governor at the Kings School Ottery St Mary. As homage to him the school has named one of its houses after him—Kennaway.

Kennaway served as an officer in the Rifle Volunteers for forty-two years. He was commanding officer of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, from 1896 to 1902, when he was appointed its Honorary Colonel, a position he retained when it was merged into the 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, in the Territorial Force in 1908.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Kennaway was active in the Church of England. He was a low church, evangelical Anglican, who supported the temperance movement. He was a member of the Church Association which campaigned against Anglo-Catholicism, but he spoke against the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 that would allow legal actions again ritualist priests.^[2] In 1904, he was appointed as a member of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline:^[5] it reported in 1906, recommending the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.

^ Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.B454
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Feuchtwanger, E. J. (19 May 2011). "Kennaway, Sir John Henry, third baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47635. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ ^a ^b Kennaway, Rt Hon. Sir John Henry. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U198752. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 2 March 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
^ Army List.
^ Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline; The Commission at anglicanhistory.org

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Lawrence Palk Edward Baldwin Courtenay	Member of Parliament for East Devon 1870 – 1885 With: Sir Lawrence Palk 1870–1880 William Walrond 1880–1885	Constituency abolished
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

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