Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis
Archibald Kennedy IV, Earl of Cassilis was the eldest son of Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa. He was styled Lord Kennedy until 1831, and Earl of Cassilis thereafter until his death.
He studied at the University of Saint Andrew under the tutorage of James Ferrie, Professor of Civil History.
He married Eleanor Allardyce on 1 May 1814, and had one daughter and nine sons. They were:
- Hannah Eleanor,
- Lord Archibald,
- Alexander
- John
- Lord David, who married Lady Mary Emily Boyle, daughter of Charles Boyle, 13th Viscount Dungarvan and Lady Catherine St Lawrence, daughter of William St Lawrence, 2nd Earl of Howth. They had one daughter, Evelyn Mary
- Lord Gilbert, married his cousin Margaret Baird, daughter of Sir David Baird, 2nd Baronet and Lady Anne Kennedy, who married Sarah Jane de Blois and had three children.
- Lord Nigel, married twice. Firstly Catherine May, and secondly Elizabeth Charlotte Neeld, with whom he had three children.
- Lord Adolphus Archibald
