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1808-1867
Poet and classicist. Born in Birmingham, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at King Edward the Sixth's School in the city, at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge. His father was a prolific poet and had been a friend of Coleridge while at university. Despite his talents as a poet and classicist, Charles went on to study law, becoming Professor of Law at Queen's College, Birmingham in 1849. His career was colourful and controversial, including a court case where he sued a former client for outstanding fees which resulted in intimate letters and poems, written by the barrister to the defendant, being read out in court.
Poems; original and translated appeared in 1843 but perhaps his most important work was in translations of Demosthenes and Virgil, including The works of Demosthenes (1848).
Background information on Charles Rann Kennedy, with examples of his poetry, can be found in Warwickshire poets (1914), edited by Charles Henry Poole. This is available in the West Midlands Creative Literature Collection.
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