William Nassau Kennedy | |
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2nd Mayor of Winnipeg | |
In office 1875–1876 |
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Preceded by | Francis Evans Cornish |
Succeeded by | Thomas Scott |
Personal details | |
Born |
Newcastle, Upper Canada |
28 April 1839
Died | 3 May 1885 London, England |
(aged 46)
William Nassau Kennedy (28 April 1839 – 3 May 1885) was the second Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1875 – 1876. He was the first commander of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
Kennedy was born in Newcastle, Upper Canada (now Newcastle, Ontario) and was the second of six children of John Kennedy, a housepainter and lieutenant-colonel in the militia, and Catharine Lambert.
Kennedy enlisted in the Peterborough Rifles in 1857. He was commissioned in 1865.