Sir Walter Kennaway CMG (1835 – 24 August 1920) was a provincial politician, farmer and run-holder in Canterbury, New Zealand, before becoming secretary to the Agent-General in London for 35 years.
[1] Walter Kennaway first stood for election to the Canterbury Provincial Council in the Geraldine electorate in 1865, but was defeated by William Gosling.
[1] Kennaway was one of the drivers for the land endowment fund of 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) for Canterbury College and other educational organisations.
[10] He was on other bodies, the Anglican Synod, the Heathcote Road Board and the Canterbury A&P Association, and had been a Commissioner of Crown Lands.
[12] On returning to England, he settled in suburban south London, a newly built villa named 'Malda' adjacent to Crystal Palace Park (on Thicket Road).