As a child he competed in a recitation contest at a local Methodist chapel in which he beat a young Henry Irving who at that time was still known by the surname Brodribb.
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During the 1860s, Kelynack was a councillor of Newington College, a committee member of Sydney City Mission, and became coeditor of the Christian Advocate and Wesleyan Record with William Curnow.