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### Author
Kennedy, John (1759-1842), British nurseryman; partner of James Lee at the Vineyard Nursery, Hammersmith; advised Josephine on the Malmaison gardens.
**Abbreviated name**: *J. Kennedy* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Kenn.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
BB p. 171-172; Bossert p. 208; Desmond p. 355; Henrey 2: 357, 434, 3: 65-66; Kew 3: 233; Plesch p. 287; Rehder 3: 109; Sotheby 416; TL-2/135.
- Britten, J., J. Bot. 42: 296-297. 1904.
- Harvey, J., Early hort. catal., Bath 1973, p. 11.
- Johnson, G. W., Hist. English gardening 301. 1829 (fide Desmond).
- Willson, E. J., James Lee and the Vineyard Nursery Hammersmith, London 1961, p. 52-55.
#### Composite works
- (1) see James Lee for *Catalogue of plants and seeds sold by* Kennedy and Lee, ... London 1774.
- (2) Contributed to H. C. Andrews, *Botanical Repository* (vols. 1-5). \[Andrews was Kennedy's son-in-law\].
- (3) Author of *Page's Prodromus*; as a general nomenclature of all the plants, indigenous and exotic, cultivated by him in the Southampton Botanic Gardens, London 1817 (see J. Bot. 42: 297. 1904 and Desmond p. 355).
#### Eponymy
*Kennedia* Ventenat (1805, *nom. cons.*); *Kennedya* A. P. de Candolle (1825, *orth. var.*); *Kennedynella* Steudel (1840).