Kennard Baronets
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The Kennard Baronetcy, of Fernhill in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 February 1891 for the five-year-old Coleridge Kennard. The baronetcy was originally intended for his grandfather and namesake Coleridge Kennard, co-founder of the Evening News
, who had died before the patent was gazetted. His grandmother Ellen Georgiana Kennard had on 17 January 1892 been granted the style and precedence as if her husband had been created a Baronet. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1999.
Evening News (London)
Evening News, formerly known as The Evening News, was an evening newspaper published in London from 1881 to 1980, reappearing briefly in 1987. It became highly popular under the control of the Harmsworth brothers. For a long time it maintained the largest daily sale of any evening newspaper in London...
, who had died before the patent was gazetted. His grandmother Ellen Georgiana Kennard had on 17 January 1892 been granted the style and precedence as if her husband had been created a Baronet. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1999.
Kennard Baronets, of Fernhill (1891)
- Sir Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy Kennard, 1st Baronet (1885–1948)
- Sir Lawrence Ury Charles Kennard, 2nd Baronet (1912–1967)
- Sir George Arnold Ford Kennard, 3rd Baronet (1915–1999)