John Robert Kenyon

John Robert Kenyon QC (13 January 1807 – 17 April 1880) was a British lawyer and academic.

He attended Charterhouse School (1819)[2] and then matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 24 January 1825, aged 18.

He was awarded his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1828, and in the same year was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

In 1844 he succeeded Philip Williams as Vinerian Professor of English Law, and held the chair until his death.

He was also Queen's Counsel (QC), Recorder of Oswestry from 1842 and Deputy-Chairman from 1855 then from 1871 Chairman of the Shropshire Quarter Sessions.