Nicholas Kendall (Conservative politician)

Nicholas Kendall (22 December 1800 – 8 June 1878)[1] was born in St Mabyn, Cornwall.[2] Kendall was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1847 and a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).[3] In 1858 he was chairman of the River Thames Select Committee during The Great Stink [4]

Coat of Arms of the Kendall family of Pelyn in Cornwall.

The son of a vicar, Nicholas Kendall was a member of a Cornish landowning family. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1847. In the same year he suppressed a riot at St Austell, on 11 June. He was returned to parliament for East Cornwall, in conjunction with Thomas Agar-Robartes, in 1852, which position he retained without intermission until 1868. Mr Kendall was one of the county magistrates and also a deputy-lieutenant, and deputy warden of the Stannaries. For some time he was captain of the Royal Cornwall Rangers Militia.[5]

References
  1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  2. Pauline Pickup (2013). "Cornwall - Genealogy Resources". cornwall-opc.org. Retrieved 3 February 2013. Pauline Pickup
  3. "Hansard 1803-2005". Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  4. Water supply and river studies by London City Council - 1905
  5. Extract from pages 21 to 32 of Volume III, Part No. 31 of "A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall" (known as "Lake’s Parochial History of Cornwall") compiled by Joseph Polsue
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Pole-Carew
Thomas Agar-Robartes		 Member of Parliament for East Cornwall
1852 – 1868
With: Thomas Agar-Robartes		 Succeeded by
Sir John Salusbury-Trelawny, Bt
Edward Brydges Willyams


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