Lord Kenyon

Born the second son of Lloyd Kenyon, the first baron Kenyon, he succeeded to his father’s title after his elder brother died in 1801 and his father in 1802. He graduated Oxford in 1794 earning a BA in 1796, then MA in 1802 and finally DCL in 1814. He was an ardent conservative and anti-catholic activist printing in 1810 an Observation on the Roman Catholic Question. In 1811 he was called to the bar and then in 1811 a custos brevium of the court of the king’s bench. He joined the Orange order in 1808 and after the 1829 emancipation of Roman Catholics supported it financially. He appointed William Blennerhasset Fairham to lead the organisation which in 1836 due to his appointee’s mismanagement led to his withdrawal from public life as it was implicated as a secret society attempting to overthrow the royal succession.