Kennedy, Benjamin Hall, head-master of Shrewsbury, son of a schoolmaster, born at Birmingham; after a brilliant career at Cambridge became, in 1828, Fellow of St. John's, in 1830 assistant-master at Harrow, and in 1830 was appointed to Shrewsbury, where he proved one of the greatest of schoolmasters (1804‒1889).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kennaquhair * Kennicott, Benjamin