OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 11 December 1930, Page 11

OBITUARY.

BART KENNEDY. CcKITED PSEBS ASSOCIATION —BT KLTCMIC TELKQRAPB—COPTKIGSX.) LONDON, December S>. The death has occurred of Mr Blurt Kennedy, the author ' and lecturer, aged 69 years. [Bart Kennedy was born at Leeds of Irish parents, and picked tip his education knocking about tho world. Reared at Manchester, he was a' halftimer at six in a cotton mill, and worked up to the age of 20 years in mills and machine shops in Manchester. He then went to sea bafore the mast, was a labourer, and a tramp in the United States, lived and fought with the Indians, gold-mined in Kiondyke, long beforo the gold-rush, became an opera singer and actor, drifted around the world a bit more, and then began writing. His books included the following:—"Darabs Wine-cup," "The Wandering Romanoff," -'A M»n Adrift," "A Sailor Tramp," "London In Shadow," "A Tramp In Spain," "Slavery," "The Green Sphinx," **A Tramp Camp," "Wander Pictures," "The German Danger," 'The Hunger Line," "A Tramp's Philosophy,'' "jV* Vicissitudes of Flynn," "The Huraaa Compass," "The Voice in the Light,'' "Soldiers of Labour," 'Thought Coin." "Brain-Waves," "Golden Green," *ad y* "Footlights." He was founder and proprietor of Bart's "Broadsheet (weekly), 1921. His recreation is described as "doing nothing."]