OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20744, 11 December 1930, Page 15

OBITUARY.

MR. BART KENNEDY. TRAMP AND WRITER. (Received December 10. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 9. The death has occurred of Mr. Bart Kennedy, author and lecturer, aged 69. The late Mr. Bart Kennedy was born at Leeds on March 9, 1861, of Irish parents. He picked up his education in knocking about the world. Reared in Manchester ho was a half-time worker at the age of six in a cotton mill and he worked in mills and machine shops there until he was 20. Then ho went to sea before Ihe mast, was a labourer and a tramp in the United States, lived and fought with the Indians, and went goldmining in the Klondyke long before the rush to that region. Subsequently Mr. Kennedy became a" opera singer and an actor, travelling a good deal round the world and finally drifting into writing. Ho was the founder and publisher of Bart's Broadsheet, a weekly publication, in 1921. . , , Mr. Kennedy's publications include "The Wandering Romanoff." "A Tramp," "London in Shadow, A Tramp in Spain," "The Green Sphinx," "A Tramp Camp," "Wander Pictures," "The German Danger," "The Hunger Line," "A Tramp's Philosophy," "The Human Compass" and "Footlights."