Alexander Kennedy
fl. 1840–85
Scottish banker. Manager of the Banking Company at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1840–1, then Auckland, 1841–5; member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, 1846–7, and of New Ulster (new North Island), 1848; manager of the Union Bank of Australia at Auckland, 1845–61; inspector and general manager of the New Zealand Bank, 1861–9. Retired to London; author of the memoir New Zealand (1873).
Source
DNZB.
Bibliography
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
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