Sir John Kennaway, 1st Baronet

Sir John Kennaway, 1st baronet (6 March 1758 – 1 January 1836), of Escot House in the parish of Talaton in Devon, was a British soldier and diplomat.

After Kennaway left Exeter Grammar School in 1772, he became a cadet of the East India Company's forces, through the influence of Robert Palk, a relation on his mother's side.

[2] Kennaway served in the Carnatic, marching south with a brigade from the Presidency of Bengal in 1781, and taking part in the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

[8][6] Their son, Sir John Kennaway, who succeeded as 2nd Baronet, married Emily Frances Kingscote (b.

[15] The second son, Charles Edward Kennaway (1800–1875) was a graduate of St John's College, Cambridge and a cleric.

The Embassy of Hyderbeck to Calcutta, from the Vizier of Oude, by way of Patna, in the Year 1788, to meet Lord Cornwallis , showing John Kennaway as diplomat, in the howdah on the elephant to the right [ 1 ]
Arms of Kennaway: Argent, a fess azure between two eagles displayed in chief gules and in base through an annulet of the third a slip of olive and another of palm in saltire proper [ 7 ]