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Author: Kennedy, George Blair

Biography:

KENNEDY, George Blair (c 1801-65: ancestry.co.uk)

Little biographical information is available. The preface to his book (dedicated to the Marquis of Lothian) states that his only education was “at the school of his native village.” He married Eleanor Cowan in Edinburgh in 1826 and they had three daughters and a son. In 1832 he was a bookkeeper in Edinburgh but by the time of the 1851 census the family was living in London. He died at Islington. (ancestry.co.uk 6 Sept 2019)

 

Books written (1):

Jedburgh: printed for the author, 1822