Courtney Kenny

Courtney William Alymer Thomas Kenny ^[1] (25 December 1835 – 12 December 1905) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Marlborough Region, New Zealand.

Courtenay and his wife (Georgina Paulina Edith Kenny, 1835-1899,^[2]) are reported to have arrived in Port Nicholson on the 'Philip Laing' 23 December 1856 ^[3] and to have established and named the 'Lochmara Run' in Queen Charlotte Sound, centred on Double Cove Bay and what was to become Lochmara Bay, in 1857.^[4] They later farmed ‘The Rocks’ in Double Cove, until their deaths.^[5]

Courtenay Kenny is reported to have been born in India, probably Moulmein (now in Burma), to an Indian army officer.^[6] His wife was born in Geilston, Dumbarton, Scotland, also to an Indian army father.^[7] Both were educated in England.^[8]

Courtenay, having risen from ensign^[9] to captain^[10] in the 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment of Foot, served in Crimea and then exchanged to the 94th (Scotch) Regiment.^[11] He was founding Captain of the Marlborough Volunteers 1860-1^[12] and Marlborough Commissioner of Crown Lands 1862-1866,^[13] then represented the Picton electorate from an 1866 by-election till 1881, when he retired.^[14] He was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council on 15 May 1885 and served until his death on 12 December 1905.^[15]

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