Jenny Kenney

Jane "Jenny" Kenney (1884–1961) also known as Jennie, was a British suffragette and Montessori teacher, who supported her sisters Annie Kenney and Jessie Kenney in the Women's Social and Political Union. She later became a joint principal of an independent school in New York, USA.

Life and career Jane Kenney was born in Lees, Oldham, Lancashire, the eighth child of a family of twelve siblings (eleven of whom survived infancy) of Horatio Nelson Kenney (1849–1912) and Ann Wood (1852–1905)

Although they lived in poverty, and were largely home educated due to working from a young age, both their parents encouraged them to read and debate. Kenney began working in the cotton mill as a card room hand, but later became a teacher as did two other girls. One brother became a businessman, and another brother Roland became the first editor of the Daily Herald, and later worked in the UK diplomatic service. Their mother died young at fifty-three, at their home at 71 Redgrave Street, Oldham. Campden Hill, from around 1915.

Move to USA In 1916 Jenny and her sister Kitty went to the USA, appointed by Jessica Garretson Finch as joint teachers in charge of the preparatory school for female pupils moving on to the Lenox School, New York. They retired as joint principals in 1929 (by which time the school had grown to 170 students and 24 staff on the faculty) and then taught in Philadelphia before settling in California.

Jane Kenney died in 1961.