Lieutenant Colonel Roger Lloyd Kennion CIE (16 December 1866Indian Army List supplement 1930 – 26 March 1942Officer casualties of the Indian Armies 1803-1946 by A. J. Farrington) was an officer in the British Indian Army and travel writer. Educated at Monkton Combe SchoolMonkton Combe School register 1868-1965 and at Repton School,Monkton Combe School Register 1868-1965 he was first commissioned in 1887, entered the Central India Horse in 1890 and joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh.Curzon Collection: Views of the North-West Frontier and the Gilgit-Chitral Frontier. British Library. In 1907 Kennion was appointed Consul for the Districts of Seistan and Kain in Iran. In 1915 the then Lt. Colonel Kennion was appointed the Consul for Arabistan at Kermanshah.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the London Gazette of 1 January 1918 for meritorious service in connection with the war.
He retired on 9 April 1922.Supplement to the Indian Army List January 1930 and died in Petersfield, Hampshire in 1942.
In addition to his service, he was the author of several books about his travels in India and the surrounding countries. Kennion's correspondence papers with Lord Hardinge are recorded in the National Register of ArchivesKennion, Roger Lloyd (1866-1942) Lieutenant Colonel Colonial Administrator National Register of Archives
Kennion and his wife Marion had a daughter.
Publications Sport and life in the further Himalaya. Edinburgh, London: W. Blackwood, 1910. By Mountain, lake, and plain : being sketches of sport in eastern Persia. Edinburgh; London : W. Blackwood, 1911. Diversions of an Indian political Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1932.
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