Born in the Royal Borough of Greenwich,[1] Kenward was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Buckinghamshire, where he won academic prizes.
[3][4] In May 2018 it was reported that Kenward was operating Britain's largest legal cannabis farm.
His company produces a non-psychoactive variety of the drug which is used in children's epilepsy medicine.
His wife, the Conservative minister Victoria Atkins, announced that she would no longer be speaking for the government on cannabis and some other aspects of her drugs brief, with the Home Office commenting that she had "voluntarily recused herself from policy or decisions relating to cannabis".
[5][6][7] He is the husband of the British Conservative MP Victoria Atkins.