Sir John Charles Kennedy, 3rd Baronet

Kennedy served as a Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Upon the death of his father on 4 December 1880, he succeeded as the 3rd Baronet Kennedy, of Johnstown Kennedy, County Dublin.^[2] The family seat was Johnstown Kennedy, Rathcoole, County Dublin.^[3]

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.^[2]

On 11 November 1879, Kennedy married Sydney Harriet Maude Higginson (d. 1939), a daughter of Sir James Macaulay Higginson, Governor of Mauritius. Together, they were the parents of:^[2]

• Augusta Mabel Kennedy (d. 1954), who married Lloyd Edward Hughes, son of Capt. George William Bulkeley Hughes, in 1913.^[4]
• Gladys Maude Kennedy (d. 1915)^[2]
• Sir John Ralph Bayly Kennedy, 4th Baronet (1896–1968), a Lt. in the Royal Artillery who fought in both World Wars; he died unmarried.^[2]
• Sir James Edward Kennedy, 5th Baronet (1898–1974), who also died unmarried.^[2]

Sir John died at Johnstown Kennedy on 21 March 1923,^[5] 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.^[2]