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'''Sir John Kennaway, 1st baronet''' (6 March 1758 – 1 January 1836), of [[Escot House]] in the parish of [[Talaton]] in Devon, was a British soldier and diplomat.

==Life==
[[File:Embassy Hyderbeck.jpg|thumb|''The Embassy of Hyderbeck to Calcutta, from the Vizier of Oude, by way of Patna, in the Year 1788, to meet Lord Cornwallis'', showing John Kennaway as diplomat, in the [[howdah]] on the elephant to the right<ref>{{cite web |title=print, Object: Embassy of Hyderbeck to Calcutta,British Museum |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-0608-169 |website=The British Museum |language=en}}</ref>]]
After Kennaway left [[Exeter Grammar School]] in 1772, he became a cadet of the East India Company's forces, through the influence of [[Robert Palk]], a relation on his mother's side.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=15359|first=Brendan|last=Carnduff|title=Kennaway, Sir John, first baronet (1758–1836)}}</ref>

Kennaway served in the [[Carnatic region|Carnatic]], marching south with a brigade from the [[Presidency of Bengal]] in 1781, and taking part in the [[Second Anglo-Mysore War]].<ref name="ODNB"/> He served as British [[Resident (title)|Resident]] at the Court of [[Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II]], [[Nizam of Hyderabad]]. In September 1788 he implemented the agreed transfer of the [[Northern Circars]] from Hyderabad to the [[Presidency of Madras]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Department |first1=India Foreign and Political |title=A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries |date=1892 |publisher=Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India |page=299 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2MwNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA299 |language=en}}</ref>

In recognition of his part in the negotiation of the 1790 alliance between the Nizam and the [[East India Company]] against [[Tipu Sultan]],<ref>Kidd, Charles, ''Debrett's peerage & Baronetage'' 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.B455</ref> Kennaway in 1791 he was created a [[baronet]] "of [[Hyderabad]]".<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13281 |date=12 February 1791 |page=87}}</ref> He concluded a treaty with Tipu Sultan in 1792.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Kennaway, John|volume=30}}</ref>

In 1794 Kennaway returned to England, and purchased [[Escot House]], [[Ottery St Mary]].<ref name="ODNB"/>
[[File:KennawayArms.png|thumb|200px|Arms of Kennaway: ''Argent, a fess azure between two eagles displayed in chief gules and in base through an annulet of the third a slip of olive and another of palm in saltire proper''<ref>Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.B454</ref>]]

==Family==
Kennaway married Charlotte Amyatt, daughter of [[James Amyatt]]; they had seven sons and five daughters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FweHXLAGGa0C&pg=PA314|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|year=1836|work=[[Google Search]]|pages=314|volume=V|accessdate=28 September 2017|last1=Cave|first1=Edward|last2=Nichols|first2=John}}</ref><ref name="DNB"/> Their son, Sir John Kennaway, who succeeded as 2nd Baronet, married Emily Frances Kingscote (b. 2 Aug 1805, d. 16 May 1858) on 28 April 1831. He was a noted [[evangelical]] Christian.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate |date=1873 |page=558 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA558 |language=en}}</ref>

The eldest daughters were Charlotte Eliza (1799–1875), who married [[George Templer]], and Maria (1801–1876), who married [[Francis William Newman]].<ref name="Matthews">{{cite book |last1=Matthews |first1=Samantha |title=Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture: Poetry, Manuscript, Print, 1780-1850 |date=10 September 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-885794-5 |page=225 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WyX3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA225 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Debrett |first1=John |title=The Baronetage of England |date=1839 |publisher=J.G. & F. Rivington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7CEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA244 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Stunt|first=Timothy C. F.|date=23 September 2004|title=Newman, Francis William (1805–1897), classical scholar and moral philosopher|language=en|id=20019}}</ref> Frances married [[Edward Cronin]] in 1838;<ref>{{cite book |last1=Akenson |first1=Donald H. |title=Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism |date=14 August 2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-088272-3 |page=124 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXBoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT124 |language=en}}</ref> and Susan married [[Gerard Thomas Noel]], as his second wife.<ref>{{cite book |title=Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1880 |page=253 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNsNAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA253 |language=en}}</ref> The other daughter was Augusta.<ref>{{cite book |title=Thom's Directory of Ireland |date=1873 |page=400 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0T09AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA400 |language=en}}</ref>

The second son, [[Charles Edward Kennaway]] (1800–1875) was a graduate of [[St John's College, Cambridge]] and a cleric. He married firstly Emma, daughter of Gerard Thomas Noel, and secondly Olivia, daughter of [[Lewis Way]].<ref>{{acad|id= KNWY817CE|name=Kennaway, Charles Edward}}</ref> He and his elder brother John visited [[Robert Southey]] in their student days.<ref name="Matthews"/> Two other sons, Laurence (died 1822) and William Richard, were in the [[Bengal Civil Service]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1839 |publisher=Henry Colburn |page=589 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_U8AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA589 |language=en}}</ref>

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