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He was born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham , the eldest son of Rann Kennedy (1772–1851), of a branch of the Ayrshire family which had settled in Staffordshire . Rann was a scholar and man of letters, several of whose sons rose to distinction. Benjamin was educated at Birmingham and Shrewsbury School , and St John's College, Cambridge . After a brilliant university career he was elected fellow and classical lecturer of St John's College in 1828. Two years later he became an assistant master at Harrow , whence he went to Shrewsbury as headmaster in 1836. He retained this post until 1866, the thirty years being marked by a long series of successes for his pupils, chiefly in classics. When he retired from Shrewsbury a large collection was made, and was used partly on new school buildings and partly on the founding of a Latin professorship at Cambridge. The first holders were both Kennedy's old pupils, HAJ Munro and JEB Mayor . In 1867, Kennedy was elected Regius Professor Of Greek at Cambridge and canon of Ely Cathedral . From 1870 to 1880 he was a member of the committee for the revision of the New Testament . He supported the admission of women to university, and took a prominent part in the establishment of Newnham and Girton colleges. In politics, he had liberal sympathies. Among a number of classical school-books published by him are two, a ''Public School Latin Primer'' and ''Public School Latin Grammar'', which were for long in use in nearly all English schools. He died near Torquay . His other chief works are: Sophocles , '' Oedipus Tyrannus '' (2nd ed., 1885), Aristophanes , '' Birds '' (1874); Aeschylus , '' Agamemnon '' (2nd ed., 1882), with introduction, metrical translation and notes; a commentary on Virgil (3rd ed., 1881); and a translation of Plato , ''Theaetetus'' (1881). He contributed largely to the collection known as ''Sabrinae Corolla'', and published a collection of verse in Greek , Latin and English under the title of ''Between Whiles'' (2nd ed., 1882), with many autobiographical details. REFERENCES |
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