William Nassau Kennedy
William Nassau Kennedy | |
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2nd Mayor of Winnipeg | |
In office 1875–1876 | |
Preceded by | Francis Evans Cornish |
Succeeded by | Thomas Scott |
Personal details | |
Born | (1839-04-28)28 April 1839 Newcastle, Upper Canada |
Died | 3 May 1885(1885-05-03) (aged 46) London, England |
William Nassau Kennedy (28 April 1839 – 3 May 1885) was the second Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1875 to 1876. He was the first commander of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
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Biography
Kennedy was born in Newcastle, Upper Canada (now Newcastle, Ontario) and was the second of six children of John Kennedy, a housepainter and lieutenant-colonel in the militia, and Catharine Lambert.[1]
Kennedy enlisted in the Peterborough Rifle Company in 1857.[1] He was commissioned as an ensign in 1865 and served during the Fenian raids. In 1867, Kennedy was gazetted as a captain in the newly formed 57th Peterborough Battalion of Infantry.[1] In 1870 he joined the Wolseley expedition to fight the Red River Rebellion in what is now Manitoba.
He remained in Manitoba after the fighting ended.[1]
He served in the Nile Expedition with the Nile Voyageurs. He was returning to Canada to command the 90th Winnipeg rifles in the North-West Rebellion.
He died in London from a disease contracted in Sudan on 3 May 1885 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery, almost opposite the tomb of Karl Marx.
References
- ^ a b c d Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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