Neil Kennedy, Lord Kennedy

[11] In April 1908 he was appointed as a chairman of the Crofters' Commission, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir David Brand.

The court regarded with great suspicion by landowners, because the 1911 Act had extended of security of tenure to tenant farmers in all of Scotland.

[15] This right had previously existed only in the seven crofting counties of Shetland, Orkney, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross-shire, Inverness-shire and Argyll, where it was created by the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886.

[15] In March 1914, the Conservative MP John Pretyman Newman was rebuked by the Speaker for asking in the House of Commons "Does Lord Kennedy act in his judicial capacity, or is he merely a tool of the Radical party?

"[16][17] In April 1902, Kennedy married his cousin Hilda Stevenson at St Mary's Church, Hendon in Middlesex.

[18] Kennedy died on 12 February 1918, at his home at 22 Ainslie Place on the Moray Estate in west Edinburgh.