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A NOTABLE figure in the engineering and scientific world is removed by the death of Sir Alexander B. W. Kennedy, F.R.S., in his eighty-second year. Born in London in 1847, the son of the Rev. John Kennedy, D.D., and Helen Stodart, sister of Prof. John Stuart Blackie, Kennedy received his early education at the City of London School and the School of Mines, Jermyn Street. In those early days there were no means of further education in his chosen profession of engineering, except by its actual practice, and for the next few years Kennedy was laying the foundations of his ultimate eminence as an engineer in the workshops and drawing offices of well-known firms of marine engineers in London and the north. In a surprisingly short time he was a leading draughtsman and an authority on the design and construction of the machinery of ships, and evincing thus early the keen judgment and sagacity in practical affairs which were so marked a feature of his character.
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Sir Alexander Kennedy, F.R.S. Nature 122, 850–851 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122850a0
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