| Chic Kennedy | |
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| Birth: | 7 January 1914 Dundee, Scotland, UK |
| Death: | 19 June 2020 Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland, UK |
| Age: | 106 years, 164 days |
| Country: |  UK
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| Centenarian | |
Chic Kennedy (7 January 1914 – 19 June 2020) was a British centenarian who was the oldest known living man in Scotland at the time of his death.
Biography
Chic Kennedy was born in Dundee, Scotland, UK on 7 January 1914, as one of 11 children of scrap dealer Thomas Marshall Kennedy. When he was three or four years, his younger brother John and his younger sister Lizzie dying from tuberculosis in the same week.
He was a baker during World War II, he worked for Andrew G. Kidd’s who arranged for he to be allowed to forego conscription, and stay at home because he was the only person left in the bakehouse.
He married Betty on 12 September 1942 and had at least two children: Tom, and Ann. The couple lived in Canada for around 30 years after retirement, returning to Dundee around 2012 after their daughter Ann, who lived in Toronto, died. Betty died in August 2018.
On his 105th birthday in 2019, he had one living son Tom (aged 75), six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
He became the oldest known living man in Scotland following the death of 107-year-old Jimmy Sinclair on 27 May 2020.
Kennedy died at Orchar Nursing Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland, UK on 19 June 2020 at the age of 106 years, 164 days. After his death, Walter Sharp became the oldest man in Scotland.
Gallery
References
- Dundee fan Chic who saw his first game in 1919 celebrates turning 105 Evening Telegraph, 9 January 2019
- VIDEO: ‘I’ve had a very happy life’ – 105-year-old Dundonian, born before World War I, reflects on lifetime of memories The Courier, 14 January 2019
- ‘We’re free!’: Residents of Broughty Ferry nursing home share their VE Day memories on 75th anniversary The Courier, 8 May 2020
- Chic Kennedy Obituary Dundee Courier Announcements, 22 June 2020
| Scotland's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E) |
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Andrew Amos • Alexander MacPhail • James Mathison • William Kirkpatrick • Thomas Maxwell • Robert Spence • William Green • Samuel Brown • James Webster • William Laidlaw • John Macrae • Thomas Senior • Peter Melville • Gavin Allan • John Young • Angus MacLeod • James Watt • Donald Maclellan • Robert Grieve • Henry Reid • John Macaskill • William Laing • George Wilkie • Donald MacInnes • James Matches • James Balnaves • James Morrison • Joseph McVinnie • Francis Mathison • John MacGregor • John Dykes • John Neill • James Ogilvie • Alexander Pirie • George Ferguson • William Mair • Jock Smith • Alexander Mackay • Tom Petrie • George McLaren • Henry Kempton • Andrew Main • Gilbert Campbell • John McNally • William Burns • Lachlan MacQueen • Gilbert Watson • Angus Orr • William Eeles • John Glendinning • Robert McBride • John Barr • John Morton • Andrew Drummond • Peter Cummings • James Hardy • David Henderson • Ernest Clucas • Ewen Ross • Sandy Gall • Alfred Anderson • James Wotherspoon • Bob Taggart • Sam Latter • John Hodge • Leo Tavelli • David Campbell • James Hagan • Frank Saunders • Tom MacIver • Alf Smith • Jimmy Sinclair • Chic Kennedy • Walter Sharp • George Pollard • David Crawford |
