Francis Kenna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francis Kenna

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1865

Place of Birth: Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1932

Profession: poet, politician, journalist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Francis Kenna (21 September 1865 – 23 June 1932), was an Australian poet, journalist, and Labor Member of the Legislative Assembly in Queensland.
He edited the "Brisbane Worker". He published Banjo, of the Overflow, a parody of Banjo Paterson's Clancy of the Overflow in 1892, as part of the Bulletin Debate about the true nature of life in the Australian bush.
Like many of his poems (including those later published in Phases), it was first published in the Sydney Bulletin. In 1907 he married Edith Elvira Stamp; they had two sons, Herbert and Vernon.
Kenna died in 1932 and was buried in Lutwyche Cemetery.