Charles Kennedy (diplomat)

Charles Malcolm Kennedy was born in London, the son of James Kennedy, Member of Parliament for Tiverton, and was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at Caius College at Cambridge (where he took two firsts).

He served chiefly in the commercial branch, attaining the senior clerkship there early in the 1870s.

This was his substantive appointment for many years, but he was almost constantly engaged on special services abroad, in particular: Kennedy was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1893,[2] and retired from public service the following year.

[3] Years earlier he had edited "Kennedy's Ethnological and Linguistic Essays" and was chairman of the Exmouth School Board from 1896 to the dissolution of separate school authorities under the Education Act 1902.

He was an active member of the council of the Society of Arts.