Sir John Gordon Kennedy, KCMG (18 July 1836 – 2 December 1912) was a British diplomat.
[1] His father had been the British Chargé d'affaires in Naples, Italy,[2] and was a grandson of the 11th Earl of Cassilis.
He entered the Foreign Office in 1857, served in St Petersburg, and was Legation Secretary in Japan, 1879-82 where Ernest Satow knew him.
[3] He was Secretary at the British Embassy in Rome when in October 1888 he was appointed Minister Resident and Consul General to the Republic of Chile.
[6] Kennedy married, in 1877, Evelyn Adela Bootle-Wilbraham, daughter of Colonel Hon.