Robert Kennard

[4] There he employed his son, the noted civil engineer Thomas Kennard, and his cousin and the later photographer George Swan Nottage.

Having held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Monmouthshire, he was appointed Sheriff of London and Middlesex between 1846 and 1847.

[2] He was elected as an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, seconded by Robert Stephenson and Sir William Cubitt.

[2] Kennard was elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative on 11 February 1857, representing Newport (Isle of Wight) constituency.

[2] He is interred in Kensal Green Cemetery, in Grade II listed portland stone with bronze door mausoleum.