Birmingham born and bred, he went to the city's King Edward School and is an Aston Villa fan.
Born and bred in the city's old Jewish quarter of Cheetham Hill, he went to the tough Ducie High School and began work in Manchester town hall with nothing more in his pocket than a London University external degree.
Mick Tighe, a mountain guide who lives near Roy Bridge, outside Fort William, and who knew Kennedy, said: "I wonder how many MPs are born and bred in their constituencies, whose families go back generations in that constituency and still continued living in it".
At that point, the reintroduction was in crisis: none had bred successfully in nine years.
He was unexpected, punctilious, northern to his roots but endlessly fascinated by a wider world: the kind of reporter, you might say, that we don't breed any more - except that we only bred one Arthur then.
That would show they were serious about expanding the academic gene pool beyond the little uniformed clones bred purely for the purposes of obtaining a partnership in McHarg, Drummond and Watson.
On hearing that the captive frogs had finally bred, Doherty-Bone said he felt "very, very relieved...the effort was not for nothing".
Well, when I was born, bred, educated, practised law, became a judge in the United Kingdom, I thought I did have quite strong UK qualifications.
It's more than likely that some are descendants of bulbs bred in the mid-19th century by William Backhouse, who hybridised them in the grounds of his austere country house high above Wolsingham, among conifer plantations and windswept moorland at St Johns, on the edge of Pikestone Fell.
"There has been a new level of self-identity among Catalans and that has bred renewed confidence.
Fierce competition for jobs among those who wanted to stay bred a form of survivor's guilt and friends started keeping secrets.
