Wilfred Byng Kenrick
| Alderman Wilfred Byng Kenrick | |
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| Born |
4 December 1872 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 7 August 1962 (aged 89) Birmingham |
| Nationality | English |
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| Known for | Lord Mayor of Birmingham |
| Parent(s) | William Kenrick |
Alderman Wilfred Byng Kenrick (4 December 1872 – 7 August 1962) was an English industrialist, politician and educationalist, who served as Lord Mayor of Birmingham.
Kenrick was born on 4 December 1872. He was the son of another Birmingham civic leader, William Kenrick and, through his mother Mary Chamberlain, was a nephew of a third, her younger brother Joseph Chamberlain, as well as being a cousin to Austen Chamberlain and Neville Chamberlain.
He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford.
Kenrick married another cousin, Norah Beale, on 24 July 1906. She was the daughter of Alderman Charles Gabriel Beale. The couple had four children, first a daughter, Norah Penelope (1907–1932), and then sons, including William Edmund (1908–1981). In 1908, the family were resident at Metchley House, in Edgbaston. One of Wilfred's sisters, Cicely (1869–1950), married Ernest Debenham, head of the retail chain Debenhams, in 1892. Wilfred had another sister, Millicent Mary Kenrick (1871–1932), the mother of the actor Alan Napier, and a younger brother, Gerald William Kenrick (1876–1953).
Byng Kenrick was involved in managing the family firm, Archibald Kenrick & Sons Ltd, whose origins date back to 1791, from whose day-to-day activities he stood down in 1945, retiring fully in 1953.
Kenrick was first elected to Birmingham City Council in 1914. For many years, he led the council's Unionist group. He served as chair of Birmingham's Education Committee from 1922–1928, and was Lord Mayor for the year 1928–1929 (his father had been Mayor in 1877, before Birmingham became a city; his father-in-law was Lord Mayor from 1897–1899 and again in 1905), before returning to the Education Committee from 1931–1943, and was a governor and deputy pro-chancellor of the University of Birmingham from 1939–1957. He was, like his father before him, a governor of King Edward's School there from 1916 until his death.
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