Admiral Francis William Kennedy, CB (15 December 1862 – 11 July 1939) was a Royal Navy officer.
[1][2][3] The son of Robert Kennedy, Lord Lieutenant of Kildare, he entered the Royal Navy in January 1876.
[1] Kennedy assumed command of the battlecruiser HMS Indomitable in 1912.
He participated in the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau in 1914 and the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
[1] A West African flag he brought back from the Benin Expedition of 1897 is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in London,[4] as is a personal flag of Itsekiri chief and trader Nana Olumu.