The Trial at Bar of Sir Roger C. D. Tichborne, Bart., In the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, Vol. 4: Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. ... Justice Lush, for Perjury
Excerpt from The Trial at Bar of Sir Roger C. D. Tichborne, Bart., In the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster, Vol. 4: Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Mellor, and Mr. Justice Lush, for Perjury
Dr. Kenealy That is not so, because what I call attention to is simplicity itself. There could be nothing more simple than retire by files to the right, which he changes into retire by file right. That does not indicate any inability to use the word of command, but an inability to retain it in memory, either from inattention or carelessness.
Mr. Taylor (juryman): I think, taking the whole evidence, the real difficulty was, that he could not express himself in Eng lish.
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Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy (2 July 1819 – 16 April 1880) was an Irish barrister and writer. He is best remembered as counsel for the Tichborne claimant[1] and the eccentric and disturbed conduct of the trial that led to his ruin.
Kenealy suffered from diabetes and an erratic temperament has sometimes been attributed to poor control of the symptoms.[2] In 1850 he was sentenced to one month imprisonment for punishing his six-year-old illegitimate son with undue severity. He married Elizabeth Nicklin of Tipton, Staffordshire in 1851 and they had eleven children,[2] including novelist Arabella Kenealy (1864–1938). The Kenealy family lived in Portslade, East Sussex, from 1852 until 1874. Edward Kenealy commuted to London and Oxford for his law practice but returned at weekends and other times to be with his family.[3][4]
In 1850, he published an eccentric poem inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe, a New Pantomime.[5] He also published a large amount of poetry in journals such as Fraser's Magazine. He published translations from Latin, Greek, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Irish, Persian, Arabic, Hindustani and Bengali. It is unlikely that he was fluent in all these languages.
In 1866, Kenealy wrote The Book of God: the Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes, an unorthodox theological work in which he claimed that he was the "twelfth messenger of God", descended from Jesus Christ and Genghis Khan.[2]
He also published a more conventional biography of Edward Wortley Montagu in 1869.[2]