of army hospitals, by the third daughter of the late Thomas Chamberlaine, of Wardington, co. Oxford, Esq.[1]
This officer was born in 1776; and placed upon the books of the Colossus 74, Captain Hugh C. Christian, Aug. 12, 1789. He entered the navy under the patronage of the late Lord Hood, and first went to sea in the Pomona frigate. Captain Henry Savage, with whom he sailed for Africa, and the West Indies, in Sept. 1789. On his return to England, in May, 1790, he joined the Colossus; and subsequently, the Crescent frigate, Captain William Young; Alcide 74, Captain Sir Andrew Snape Douglas; and Bonetta sloop, Captain William Elliot; under whose successor, the present Sir Graham Moore, he continued to serve until the commencement of the French revolutionarv war. The Bonetta was successively employed on the coasts of Ireland, Scotland, and England, at Newfoundland, and in the river Scheldt. We next find him in the Terrible 74, Captain Skeffington Lutwidge, one of Lord Hood’s fleet, at the occupation of Toulon. During the siege of that place by the republican forces, he was occasionally employed in the batteries on shore; and he obtained great praise from Sir Hyde Parker, the captain of the fleet, for his exertions in embarking and bringing off more than 60 unfortunate emigrants, chiefly females, at the very moment when their blood-thirsty countrymen were rushing into the town.
After the evacuation of Toulon, Mr. Kennedy was received on board the Victory, Lord Hood’s flag-ship, for a passage to Gibraltar; from whence he returned home, master’s-mate of la Sybille frigate. Captain Edward Cooke, towards the end of 1794.
La Sybille was paid off soon after her arrival; and while she was repairing, Mr, Kennedy served as midshipman undei Lord Garlics, now Earl of Galloway, in the Lively 30. On
- ↑ Dr. Kennedy died in April, 1796, after a long illness occasioned by excessive fatigue, in the performance of his duty on the continent, under the Duke of York. He was descended from an ancient family of that name in the north of Ireland.
