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Benjamin Hall Kennedy

1804–89

Clergyman and teacher. BA, Cambridge (St John’s College), 1827; fellow, 1828–32. Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, 1836–66. Regius professor of Greek at Cambridge University, 1867–89.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

ODNB.

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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