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About Help Contact login Rev Timothy Kenny SJ Title: Rev First Name: Timothy Middle Names: Preferred Name: Surname: Kenny Order: SJ Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1843 Place of Birth: Tullamore, Co Offaly Country of Birth: Ireland Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 04-Aug-1917 Place of Death: Richmond, Melbourne VIC Country of Death: Australia Date of Burial: 06-Aug-1917 Place of Burial: Boroondara, Kew VIC Country of Burial: Australia Find A Grave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208216489 FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017: Kenny, Timothy Teacher, administrator, provincial; born Tullamore, Ireland, 1 February 1843; died Richmond, Victoria, 4 August 1917, aged 74. Timothy Kenny was educated by the Vincentian Fathers at Castleknock, Dublin, and studied for the priesthood at Clonliffe and at Maynooth. After ordination, he worked in the town of Maynooth, and then entered the Jesuit noviciate in Ireland, 8 January 1872, at the age of 29. He revised his theology at Louvain, 1874-5, and taught at Galway, 1875-88, becoming its rector in 1882; he was also prefect of studies. It was here that he became a friend with the bishop of Galway, Dr Carr, who was later archbishop of Melbourne. His energy and administrative skills were recognised, and he was appointed provincial of the Irish province until 1894. He visited both the Austrian and Irish missions in Australia in 1889, with a view to negotiate a union. Far from deserving credit for the amalgamation, he dithered over it until the Austrians were out of patience. Sent to Australia in 1894, Kenny was mission superior until 1901. He resided at North Sydney. After a few years as minister at Riverview, he was appointed rector of St Patrick's College, 1903-16. During that time his letters expressed much concern about the future of the college. He was a tired man, and the many problems of the college added to his depression. During his term of office, compulsory military training was introduced. Former students believed that the discipline learnt during cadet training raised their morale and improved their attitude towards one another. He spent his last few years doing parish work at St Ignatius', Richmond. Kenny was a man of many gifts, pious, full of zeal, and prudent, even too prudent, but kind and generous to the individual. He seemed to be a man of nervous temperament and one lacking in self-confidence - the kind of superior who is kept in office because he can be relied on not to give trouble. He spent half his Jesuit life in Australia. He was also a man who brought to the problems of his age a mind attuned to the previous century, fighting against the perceived evils of his day, especially the abuse of the virtue of purity. (Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Timothy

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Kenny

Order:

Date of Birth:

01-Feb-1843

Place of Birth:

Tullamore, Co Offaly

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

04-Aug-1917

Place of Death:

Richmond, Melbourne VIC

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

06-Aug-1917

Place of Burial:

Boroondara, Kew VIC

Country of Burial:

Australia

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208216489

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Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Kenny, Timothy

Teacher, administrator, provincial; born Tullamore, Ireland, 1 February 1843; died Richmond, Victoria, 4 August 1917, aged 74.

Timothy Kenny was educated by the Vincentian Fathers at Castleknock, Dublin, and studied for the priesthood at Clonliffe and at Maynooth. After ordination, he worked in the town of Maynooth, and then entered the Jesuit noviciate in Ireland, 8 January 1872, at the age of 29. He revised his theology at Louvain, 1874-5, and taught at Galway, 1875-88, becoming its rector in 1882; he was also prefect of studies. It was here that he became a friend with the bishop of Galway, Dr Carr, who was later archbishop of Melbourne.

His energy and administrative skills were recognised, and he was appointed provincial of the Irish province until 1894. He visited both the Austrian and Irish missions in Australia in 1889, with a view to negotiate a union. Far from deserving credit for the amalgamation, he dithered over it until the Austrians were out of patience.

Sent to Australia in 1894, Kenny was mission superior until 1901. He resided at North Sydney. After a few years as minister at Riverview, he was appointed rector of St Patrick's College, 1903-16. During that time his letters expressed much concern about the future of the college. He was a tired man, and the many problems of the college added to his depression. During his term of office, compulsory military training was introduced. Former students believed that the discipline learnt during cadet training raised their morale and improved their attitude towards one another.

He spent his last few years doing parish work at St Ignatius', Richmond.

Kenny was a man of many gifts, pious, full of zeal, and prudent, even too prudent, but kind and generous to the individual. He seemed to be a man of nervous temperament and one lacking in self-confidence - the kind of superior who is kept in office because he can be relied on not to give trouble. He spent half his Jesuit life in Australia. He was also a man who brought to the problems of his age a mind attuned to the previous century, fighting against the perceived evils of his day, especially the abuse of the virtue of purity.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Rev Timothy Kenny SJ

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