Kennicott, Benjamin, English Hebraist, born at Totnes, Devonshire, educated at Oxford; became Fellow of Exeter, Radcliffe librarian, and in 1770 canon of Christ Church; from 1753 he organised and took part in an extensive collation of Hebrew texts, issuing in 1776-80 the “Hebrew Old Testament, with Various Readings” (1718‒1783).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kennedy, Benjamin Hall * Kensal Green