Kennedy, William
(male)
12/26/1799 - 1871
Irish
Poet and journalist; lived in Canada and United States; worked with Leitch Ritchie in London; British consul at Galveston, Texas; edited the Continental annual; wrote The Arrow and the Rose and other poems (1830), The Siege of Antwerp (1838), The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas (1841). See Boase II: 201.