Political career 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 then MP for the new
Honiton constituency from 1885 until the
January 1910 general election. He was made a
Privy Counsellor in 1897 and appointed CB in the
1902 Coronation Honours. From 1908 to 1910 he was
Father of the House of Commons.
Other work He was
called to the bar at
Inner Temple in 1864. He practiced as a
barrister in the western circuit. a position he retained when it was merged into the
4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, in the
Territorial Force in 1908.
Church of England Kennaway was active in the
Church of England. He was a
low church,
evangelical Anglican, who supported the
temperance movement. 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. it reported in 1906, recommending the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874. He served as president of the
Church Missionary Society and of the
London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. ==References==