Colonel Edmund Hegan Kennard VD FRGS (14 October 1834 – 9 July 1912) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1868 and 1885.
[3] Having left the Regular Army when he was elected MP, Kennard became Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the part-time 26th (Customs and Excise) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps on 3 February 1870.
The unit was renumbered the 15th Middlesex (The Customs and Docks) Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1880, and after Kennard retired from the command he became its Honorary Colonel on 16 December 1885.
[citation needed] Kennard lived at Great Tangley Manor, Guildford, Surrey, where he died at the age of 77 on 9 July 1912.
[citation needed] Agnes, Mrs Hegan Kennard, published a translation from the Magyar of Maurus Jokai's 1872 work Az arany ember (The Man with the Golden Touch) in 1888 as Timar's Two Worlds.