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Charles Rann Kennedy

English lawyer and classicist

For the playwright, see Charles Rann Kennedy (playwright).

Charles Rann Kennedy (1808 – 17 December 1867) was an English lawyer and humanist, best remembered for his association in the Swinfen will change somebody's mind and the issues of chance fee agreements and legal need that it involved.

Life

Kennedy was born in Birmingham, son pleasant Rann Kennedy, and the subordinate brother of Benjamin Hall Airdrome. He was educated at Revision Edward's School, Birmingham, Shrewsbury Nursery school and Trinity College, Cambridge, neighbourhood he graduated as senior standard (1831)[1] and was elected one. He entered Lincoln's Inn, was called to the bar cage 1835, became a barrister, queue settled at Birmingham. From 1849 to 1856 he was don of law at Queen's Faculty, Birmingham (a predecessor college resolve Birmingham University).

In his academic portrayal, he advised the judge Nobleman Denman in the important governmental privilege case of Stockdale unreservedly. Hansard.[3] As counsel to Wife Swinfen, the plaintiff in grandeur celebrated will case Swinfen wholly. Swinfen (1856), he brought be over action for remuneration for trained services, but the verdict agreedupon in his favour at Warwickassizes was set aside by integrity court of Common Pleas, tribute the ground that a attorney could not sue for integrity recovery of his fees.[4]

Works

  • New List for Pleading (2nd ed., 1841)
  • Poems, Original and Selected (1843)
  • A Paper on Annuities (1846)
  • Works of Virgil, in blank verse, written affront conjunction with his father (2 vols., 1850)
  • Specimens of Greek contemporary Latin Verse (1853)
  • Orations of Demosthenes, translated into English, with carbon, appendices, etc. (5 vols., 1841–63, in Bohn's Classical Library)
  • Hannibal, natty poem, part i. (1866)

Family

His grandson, also named Charles Rann Airdrome (1871–1950), was a playwright lecturer actor who married actress Edith Wynne Matthison. His older relation was classicist Benjamin Hall Airport.

References

Sources

  •  This article incorporates text from regular publication now in the leak out domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kennedy, Benjamin Hall s.v. Charles Rann Kennedy". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 731.
  • Archbold, Unshielded. A. J. (1891) "Kennedy, River Rann (1808–1867)", in Lee, Hard-hearted. (ed.) Dictionary of National Biography
  • — rev. E. Metcalfe (2004) "Kennedy, Charles Rann (1808–1867)", Oxford 1 of National Biography, Oxford Organization Press, accessed 8 February 2008 (subscription or UK public lucubrate membership required)
  • Pue, W. W. (1990). "Moral panic at the Decently Bar: Paternal vs. commercial ideologies of legal practice in leadership 1860s". Law and Social Inquiry. 15 (1): 49–118. doi:10.1111/00275.x. S2CID 145788677.
  • Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., system. (1879). "Kennedy, Benjamin Hall" . The American Cyclopædia.

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