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Daisy Fowler Kennedy (16 January 1893 – 30 July 1981) was an Australian-born concert violinist.

Daisy Kennedy
Daisy Kennedy in 1923
Background information
Born	(1893-01-16)16 January 1893 Burra-Burra, South Australia
Died	30 July 1981(1981-07-30) (aged 88) Hammersmith, London, England
Instrument(s)	Violin

She was born in Burra-Burra, 160 km north of Adelaide, to parents of Scottish and Irish descent.[1] Her father, Joseph A. Kennedy, was headmaster of Glenelg Primary School and president of the South Australian Public School Teachers' Union.[2] For three years, she was Elder scholar at the Adelaide Conservatory[1] under Mrs. Alderman and Hermann Heinicke.[2] She was a private pupil of Otakar Ševčík in Vienna for a year, and then studied for two years in the Meister-Schule there.[1] She appeared in London in 1911 and toured widely in Europe and in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

On 15 April 1914,[2] she married the Russian pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch; their daughter, the theatre designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch was born in December the same year. They had a second daughter, Sandra. After divorcing Moiseiwitsch, she married the English playwright and poet John Drinkwater. They had a daughter, Penny Drinkwater, who went on to become a wine writer and member of the circle of wine writers.

She was a cousin of cellist Lauri Kennedy,[3] and thus also related to Lauri's son John Kennedy, another cellist, and grandson, the violinist Nigel Kennedy.

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