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Superior of Irish Mission: 30 September 1812-28 September 1817; 29 September 1821- May 1830
Vice Provincial: 1834-1836

Assistant Keeper, Department of Art, Ulster Museum

Kenneth Arthur Kennedy was the youngest son of Doctor J. M. Prior Kennedy, JP, of Elmfield, Tullamore King’s County, and Anchoretta H. Jacob. He was born on 3 April 1894 and was educated at St Columba’s College and Trinity College. K. A. Kennedy was called to the bar in 1917 and qualified as a solicitor in 1924. He was a solicitor with A & L Goodbody with offices at Dame Street, Dublin, Moate and Tullamore becoming a partner by 1930. Alfred Goodbody had died in 1924 in the same year as Kenneth Kennedy qualified. In 1930 Kenneth Kennedy, Lewis Goodbody and George Acheson Overend acquired the fee simple as joint tenants of premises at High Street, Tullamore held on lease since 1913. Lewis Goodbody died in 1933 and the ownership of the firm was shared between G. O. Overend and Kenneth Arthur Kennedy, but not necessarily in equal shares. In 1947 a new partnership arrangement was entered into between Overend and Kennedy and the following year Kenneth Arthur Kennedy acquired the entire interest in the building at High Street for £800. The A & L Goodbody, Tullamore partnership appears at this time to have comprised of G. A. Overend, Kenneth A. Kennedy and G. G. Overend. The Tullamore building was to serve the Tullamore firm now known as Goodbody & Kennedy until 1989 when the business was sold to Dermot Scanlon by Kenneth C. P. Kennedy. He had been active in the firm up to his death on 9 December 1974 at the age of 80 and had served his clients in Tullamore for fifty years. He married Mary Lawrence in 1924, the same year as he qualified as a solicitor. She was better known locally as Bean Uí Chinnéide and was a keen landscape painter and with her husband a lover of nature. Mr Kennedy’s tombstone at Clonminch fittingly records – /He loved his birds/ and he loved his bible/The word of God/ a Lantern to his feet/. Court tributes were paid to Mr Kennedy by District Justice Tormey at Tullamore district court and on behalf of the solicitors by Mr Eugene Hunt.

Captain Thomas Kelly of Maddenstown, County Kildare, was appointed Fort Major of Gravesend and Tilbury Fort on 13 January 1814.

Secretary of Offaly County Council, c. 1940-1945

Spencer Litton Hall Kelly, son of Edmund Meares Kelly (1808-1903) and Georgina Eliza Goodwin (1819-1896), was born 1 April 1859. He obtained the degree of LL.D. from Trinity College Dublin, and went on to work for the Solicitor's Department of the Irish Land Comission. around the year. In 1899 he married Frances Sarah Bell (b. 1869), daughter of John Alexander Bell and Frances Sarah Bell. They had two sons: Edmund Alexander Charles Harford Kelly (b. 1900), and John Hubert Thomas Robert Kelly (1903-1989). He retired from the Irish Land Commission in 1929. Doctor Spencer Litton Hall Kelly died 30 July 1940, and was buried at Deansgrange Cemetery in Blackrock, County Dublin.

Ribbonman active in Geashill 1859-1860. Ejected from Geashill Estate by land agents, W.S. and T. W. Trench in 1860 and left with his family for Australia.