Men-at-the-Bar/Kenny, Courtney Stanhope

by Joseph Foster

Kenny, Courtney Stanhope, LL.M. (fellow). Downing Coll., Camb., 1878, senior in law tripos 1874 and chancellor's legal medallist 1875, law lecturer Trin. Coll., Camb., examiner in law tripos 1881-2-3, admitted a solicitor in Hilary term 1869, Cliiford's Inn prize, the Broderip gold medal, and a special prize of Incorporated Law Society, author of The Law of England on the Effects of Marriage on Property, The History of the Law of Primogeniture and Endowed Charities, a student of Lincoln's Inn 21 Jan., 1878 (then aged 30), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1881 (eldest son of William Fenton Kenny, of Ripon, Yorks, J.P.); born 18 March, 1847; married 21 April, 1876, Emily Gertrude, 4th dau. of William Wood Wiseman, M.R.C.S., of Ossett, Yorks.

Downing College, Cambridge.