Sir John Kennaway, 3rd Baronet

The Right Honourable Sir John Kennaway Bt PC
"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 PC DL (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 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.

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.

References

• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir John Kennaway
• Sir John Henry Kennaway in the National Archives
• Portraits of Sir John Henry Kennaway at the National Portrait Gallery, London