Edward Kennion

His grandfather John Kennion was for many years minister of the Unitarian Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park, Liverpool.

By a commission dated 11 April of that year he was appointed an aide-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, to the commander-in-chief of the island.

At Rydd Green he occupied himself in making drawings for a book on landscape painting, his long-term project.

1 of a work on remains of antiquity, which contained five perspective views of ancient castles on the Welsh border, and three ground plans engraved in line by Richard Bernard Godfrey, with descriptions by Kennion.

[1] Kennion worked at his book on landscapes during visits to the neighbourhood of Liverpool and the Lake District.

The death in 1791 of an uncle, Dr. Kennion, a Liverpool physician, increased his resources, and in 1803 he issued a full prospectus of the proposed work.