Sir John Kennaway, 3rd Baronet

Sir John Henry Kennaway, 3rd Baronet, CB, PC, DL (6 June 1837 – 6 September 1919) was an English Conservative Party politician.

He studied law and modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.

[2] Kennaway was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Devon from 1870 to 1885, when the constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.

He was a member of the Church Association which campaigned against Anglo-Catholicism, but he spoke against the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 that would allow legal actions again ritualist priests.

[2] In 1904, he was appointed as a member of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline:[6] it reported in 1906, recommending the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.

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 [ 1 ]