Sir John Kennedy, 3rd Baronet

Sir John Charles Kennedy, 3rd Baronet DL JP (23 March 1856 – 21 March 1923) was an Irish soldier.

Early life Kennedy was born on 23 March 1856. He was the son of Sir Charles Kennedy, 2nd Baronet and the former Augusta Maria Pery. His younger brother was George Edward de Vere Kennedy, a Lt. in the 5th Lancers who married a daughter of Sir John Carden, 4th Baronet.

He served as High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1884. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of County Dublin and was a Justice of the Peace for County Dublin. Gladys Maude Kennedy (d. 1915) Sir John Ralph Bayly Kennedy, 4th Baronet (1896–1968), a Lt. in the Royal Artillery who fought in both World Wars; he died unmarried. and Lady Kennedy died on 10 August 1939. He was, in turn, succeeded in the baronetcy by both of his sons. As neither of them married, after the death of his youngest son in 1974, the baronetcy passed to Derrick Edward de Vere Kennedy, the 3rd Baronet's nephew.