Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert

Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert
Born
Arthur Robert Kenney

(1840-08-17)17 August 1840
Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, UKGBI
Died5 March 1916(1916-03-05) (aged 75)
West Kensington
OccupationsSoldier, cook
RelativesArthur Henry Kenney (grandfather)

Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert (née Kenney; 17 August 1840 – 5 March 1916) was a British soldier who served in the British Indian Army, and wrote on cooking.

Early life and education

Kenney-Herbert was born Arthur Robert Kenney on 17 August 1840 in Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire to The Rev Arthur Robert Kenney, the rector of Bourton-on-Dunsmore, and Mary Louise Kenney (née Palmer).[1][2][3][4] Kenney-Herbert was the paternal grandson of Arthur Henry Kenney, an Irish religious writer and Dean of Achonry.[3]

In 1855, Kenney-Herbert entered Rugby School as Arthur Robert Kenney.[5] The families' surname was later changed to Kenney-Herbert after his father's mother, Mary Lusinda Kenney (née Herbert). Through his paternal grandmother, Kenney-Herbert was related to the Anglo-Irish politicians Henry Arthur Herbert and Colonel Henry Arthur Herbert and the Royal Navy officer Thomas Herbert.[6][7][8][9][10]

Career

He served in the Indian Army from age 19. A cornet in 1859, he served in the Madras Cavalry, having arrived in India on 31 October of that year. He reached the rank of major in 1875,[11] at this rank serving as deputy assistant quartermaster general at Madras until 1881,[12] then as military secretary to the governor of Madras from 1881 to 1884. In 1885, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the Madras Cavalry.[13] He retired in 1892 with the rank of colonel.[14][15]

Kenney-Herbert's Vegetarian and Simple Diet, 1908

Kenney-Herbert wrote regular articles about Anglo-Indian cookery for The Madras Mail, Madras Atheneum and The Daily News, using the pen-name Wyvern. These were collected and published in 1878 as Culinary Jottings for Madras, Or, A Treatise in Thirty Chapters on Reformed Cookery for Anglo-Indian Exiles, which went through six editions between 1878 and 1892.[16] Upon retiring from the army and returning to England, he started a cookery school – the Common-sense Cookery Association – in June 1894. Its premises were at 17 Sloane Street in London.[17]

Kenney-Herbert was not a vegetarian, but he did author the cookbook Vegetarian and Simple Diet in 1904. The book espouses ovo-lacto vegetarian recipes. It was positively reviewed in The Lancet journal, which noted that "we are glad to welcome the appearance of a book which will teach householders that appetising dishes can be made from vegetables with the aid of eggs and milk products."[18]

Kenney-Herbert was fond of kedgeree. His recipe consisted of boiled rice, chopped boiled egg, cold minced fish that is heated with herbs, pepper and salt.[19]

Personal life

He married Agnes Cleveland, daughter of General John Wheeler Cleveland. Arthur Cleveland Herbert Kenney-Herbert of the Northants Regiment was their son.[10] Kenney-Herbert died on 5 March 1916 at Sinclair Gardens in West Kensington.[20]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert [list]". UK, British Army Records and Lists, 1882–1962 [database online]. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. January 1892.
  2. ↑ "A R Kenney Herbert; London; Battersea; East Battersea; District 06". Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Richmond: The National Archives: 8. 1901.
  3. 1 2 Goodwin, Gordon; Huddleston, David (23 September 2004). "Kenney, Arthur Henry (1776/7–1855), Church of Ireland dean of Achonry and religious writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15403. Retrieved 30 June 2026. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ↑ "No.309 Arthur Robert Kenney [baptismal record]". Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Bourton-on-Dunsmore; 1825–1849. Warwick, Warwickshire: Warwickshire County Record Office: 39. 6 September 1840.
  5. ↑ Rugby School (1886). Rugby School Register, from 1675 to 1874 Inclusive: With Annotations and Alphabetical Index. A. J. Lawrence. p. 37.
  6. ↑ Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland, Michael C. O'Laughlin, 1994, p. 77
  7. ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, fourth edition, Sir Bernard Burke, 1862, p. 686
  8. ↑ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families. Vol. 2 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 1090.
  9. ↑ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1884. p. 471.
  10. 1 2 Burke, Bernard; Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1912). "A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland". Internet Archive. London: Harrison. p. 314. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  11. ↑ London Gazette issue 24471
  12. ↑ London Gazette issue 24995
  13. ↑ London Gazette issue 25530
  14. ↑ London Gazette issue 26290
  15. ↑ Great Britain. India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List for ... Harrison and Sons. p. 538.
  16. ↑ Carr, H. R. Culling (7 November 1968). "The Man Who Taught the Maj to Cook". Country Life. p. 1214.
  17. ↑ David, Elizabeth (1970). Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 169. ISBN 0140461639.
  18. ↑ Anonymous. (1905). Vegetarian and Simple Diet. The Lancet 1: 300.
  19. ↑ Leong-Salobir, Cecilia. (2011). Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire. Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-415-60632-5
  20. ↑ "Obituary: Army". Broad Arrow: The Naval and Military Gazette. 15 March 1916. p. 328.
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