Thom's Irish Who's Who/Kennedy, Patrick James

KENNEDY, Patrick James. Educated at St. Vincent's College, Castleknock; M.P. for North Kildare, 1892-5, and for North Westmeath, 1900-6. First Chairman of Meath County Council, 1899-1902, and was a member of that body for over 20 years; one of the original members of the Irish Council of Agriculture, on which he sat for 21 years. High Sheriff of Co. Meath, 1910, and for a number of years represented the Grand Jury of Meath of which he was a member-on the Visiting Justices' Committees to Kilmainham and Mountjoy Prisons. J.P. for Co. Meath since 1893: only son of Brian Kennedy, of Rathcore, Co. Meath. Born there in 1864, and claims descent from Donchuan, son of Cineadh and brother of the Monarch Brian Boru. He married in 1888, Cornelia, dau. of Professor P. A. Duncan, of Vienna. Has one son, Antonio B. Is a Landowner. Res.: Rathcore, Enfield, Co. Meath. Club: Leinster, Dublin.