Surname: Kenyon Forename(s): John b. December 1784. d. 3 December 1856. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and patron of the arts. Born in Jamaica, where his father owned a sugar plantation.
Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, but left without taking a degree. Closely connected
with many of the leading British and American literary figures, in particular his
distant cousin Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert Browning. Travelled
extensively. Author of poetry volumes A Rhymed Plea for Tolerance (1833), Poems, for the Most Part Occasional (1838), A Day at Tivoli, with other verses (1849). (SP, AC)