Hugh Alexander Kennedy (22 August 1809 – 22 October 1878) was an English chess master[1] and writer.

[5] In 1845, he teamed up with Staunton in Portsmouth in two telegraph games (lost and drew) against a team of Henry Thomas Buckle, George Walker, William Davies Evans, Perigal, and Tuckett in London.

[8] Kennedy played in the great international London 1851 chess tournament and finished in sixth place of the sixteen competitors.

(inspired by Thackeray's The Book of Snobs), Kennedy gave the score of a chess game said to be played by Napoleon and Count Bertrand.

[2] First published in 1860, it was later included in Waifs and Strays (2nd edition, 1876), a collection of Kennedy's writings.