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See also:KENNEDY, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:FRANCIS (1788-1879) , Scottish politician, was See also:born near See also:Ayr in 1788. He studied for the See also:bar and became See also:advocate in 1811. Having been elected M.P. for the Ayr burghs in 1818, he devoted the greater See also:part of his See also:life to the promotion of Liberal reforms. In 182o he married the only daughter of See also:Sir See also:Samuel See also:Romilly. He was greatly assisted by See also:Lord See also:Cockburn, then Mr He,11ry Cockburn, and a See also:volume of See also:correspondence published by Kennedy in 1874 forms a curious and interesting See also:record of the consultations of the two See also:friends on See also:measures which they regarded as requisite for the See also:political regeneration of their native See also:country. One of the first measures to which he directed his See also:attention was the withdrawal of the See also:power of nominating juries from the See also:judges, and the imparting of a right of See also:peremptory See also:challenge to prisoners. Among other subjects were the improvement of the See also:parish See also:schools, of pauper See also:administration, and of several of the corrupt forms of legal See also:procedure which then prevailed. In the construction of the Scottish Reform See also:Act Kennedy took a prominent part; indeed he and Lord Cockburn may almost be regarded as its authors. After the See also:accession of the Whigs to See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1832 he held various important offices in the See also:ministry, and most of the measures of reform for See also:Scotland, such as See also:burgh reform, the improvements in the See also:law of See also:entail, and the reform of the See also:sheriff courts, owed much to his sagacity and See also:energy. In 1837 he went to See also:Ireland as pay-See also:master of See also:civil services, and set himself to the promotion of various measures of reform. Kennedy retired from office in 1854, but continued to take keen See also:interest in political affairs, and up to his See also:death in 1879 took a See also:great part in both See also:county and parish business. He had a stern love of See also:justice, and a determined hatred of everything savouring of jobbery or dishonesty.
End of Article: KENNEDY, THOMAS FRANCIS (1788-1879)
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