George Thomas Kenyon

George Thomas Kenyon (28 December 1840 – 26 January 1908)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1906.

He was educated at Harrow School and at Christ Church, Oxford,[2] where he graduated as Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1864 and Master (MA) in 1870.

[10] He unsuccessfully stood at a by-election for East Denbighshire in 1897, losing mainly through his unpopular protectionist views.

He promoted the passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act 1889, and was a founder of the University of Wales, which he served as Junior Deputy Chancellor in 1898–1900.

[2] Kenyon lived at Llanerch-Panna, Penley, Flintshire, where he died at the age of 67 after failure to fully recover from a recent accident.