J. Graham Kenion

The captain of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club in 1908, Graham Kenion was one of several Royal Mersey members that made up the 10-man crew aboard Sir Charles McIver’s Mouchette, which won the silver medal in the 12-metre class at the London Olympics that year.

A Solicitor for 46 years, Kenion was a partner in the Liverpool firm Tyrer, Kenion, and Simpson. Kenion was for many years the president, and honorary secretary, of the Royal Liverpool Institution that housed the famous Roscoe collection of paintings at one time. Kenion was also the honorary secretary for more than 10 years of the Incorporated Law Society of Liverpool. He later became president, a post his father held exactly 40 years earlier

Kenion’s only son John, who also became a partner in his father’s law firm, was a major in World War II but was sadly killed in action in Italy in 1944.