Kennedy, Benjamin Hall

D.D. (Cambridge, 1836), Church of England; b. at Summer Hill, near Birmingham, Nov. 6, 1804; entered St. John's College, Cambridge; gained the Porson prize, and Browne's medal for Latin ode, in 1823; the Pitt University scholarship, Browne's medals for Greek and Latin odes, and the Porson prize, in 1824; Browne's medal for epigrams in 1825, the Porson prize in 1826; graduated B.A. (senior optime, and first in the first cla of the cla ical tripos, and senior chancellor's medallist) 1827, M.A. 1830; gained the member's prize for a Latin e ay, De origine scriptural alphabetical; was fellow of his college, and cla ical lecturer, 1828-36; a istant master at Harrow, 1830-36; head master of Shrews bury School, 1836-66; was ordained deacon 1829, priest 1830; was prebendary of Gaia Major in Lich field Cathedral, 1843-67; select preacher to the university, 1860; rector of West Felton, Salop, 1865-67; became regius profe or of Greek in the University of Cambridge, and canon of Ely, 1867. In 1870 he was elected a member of the council of the university; appointed Lady Margaret's preacher for 1873; elected honorary fellow of St. John's College in 1880. He was a member of the New-Testament Company of Bible Revisers (1870- 81). His works are mostly Latin school-books or translations of cla ic authors: e.g., Birds of Aris toph anes (London, 1874), Agamemnon of iEschylus (1878, 2ded. 1882), CEdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles: but he has also published Betiveen Whiles: Wayside Amusements of a Working Life, 1877; Occasional Sermons, 1877; and Ely Lectures on the Revised Translation of the New Testament, 1882. *