Norman Kennedy (rugby union)

Amateur career He went to school at Rugby. He went to University College, Oxford. He played rugby union for Oxford University. He played for Cities District against Provinces District on 24 January 1903. International career He was capped 3 times for the Scotland international side, all in 1903. ==Military career==

He joined the Ayrshire Yeomanry in 1899. In the First World War he served with them in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine. He obtained the rank of Honorary Colonel. ==Business career==

Kennedy succeeded his father as a director of Robert Young Pickering co. in Wishaw. He remained a director until the Lithgow group was founded. Through his timber importing connections, he was appointed as consul for Honduras in Glasgow. He became a director of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce in 1920 and in 1935 he was elected the President of the chamber. For a time, he was a director of George Outram and Co., the owners of the Glasgow Herald newspaper. He retired for health reasons in 1958. He became a director of the Bank of Scotland. ==Farming career==

His father James Kennedy took on a herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle at Doonholm. Both James and then Norman successfully exhibited their cattle in Scotland and in England. Norman became President of the Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society. He became chairman of the Agricultural Executive Committee for South Ayrshire; and for his work on that committee he was awarded a C.B.E. He was also made Deputy lieutenant of Ayrshire. ==Family==

Born in Old Kilpatrick, he was the only surviving son of James Kennedy of Doonholm. Norman Kennedy and Sylvia Bingham had two sons and two daughters. ==References==