Neil Kennedy

Neil John Downie Kennedy, Lord Kennedy KC (1854 – 12 February 1918) was a Scottish advocate, legal academic and judge. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Aberdeen, and served from 1912 to 1918 as the first Chairman of the Scottish Land Court.

Kennedy was born in 1854 at Rosehall in Sutherland, where his father John Kennedy was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was educated at Inverness and then at the University of Aberdeen, where he was awarded an MA in 1876. He later received an Ll.D from the University of Edinburgh, in 1903.

He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1874 or 1877, and in 1898 he was appointed as lecturer on private international law at the University of Edinburgh. From 1901 to 1907 he was Professor of Civil and Scots Law at the University of Aberdeen.

His interest in the plight of crofters led him to be the Liberal Party candidate for Inverness-shire at the 1895 general election. He achieved a swing of 4.8% from the Conservatives, but fell 100 votes short of defeating the sitting Conservative MP James Evan Bruce Baillie.

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