Modern English biography

KENDALL, HENRY CLARENCE (son of Basil Kendall). _b._ Ulladulla near Shoalhaven, New South Wales 18 April 1841; went to sea 1856, spent 2 years in the South Sea islands; clerk to James Lionel Michael, solicitor and author, Sydney 1860; contributed to Empire and Herald newspapers 1865, clerk in lands department, N.S.W. 1863, then in colonial secretary’s office, resigned 1869; journalist Melbourne 1869–73; inspector of forests, N.S.W.; author of Poems and songs 1862, which he suppressed in 1865; At Long Bay, Euroclydon, poems. _d._ at the house of the Messrs. Fagan Bros., Redfern near Sydney 1 Aug. 1882. _Barton’s Poets of New South Wales_ (1866) _pp._ 192–206; _Sladen’s Australian poets_ (1888) _p._ 280; _H. Kendall’s Poems_ (1886), _memoir pp. xi–xvi_. KENDALL, JOSEPH. Jockey; won the Chester cup on Nancy 1851 when he weighed only 4 st. 12 lb.; won the Liverpool Grand National on Jealously 1861; one of the finest horsemen ever seen. _d._ 21 March 1892. KENDALL, NICHOLAS (1 son of rev. Charles Kendall, V. of Talland, _d._ 1806). _b._ Tredethy, St. Mabyn 22 Dec. 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; sheriff of Cornwall 1847; M.P. East Cornwall 1852–68; received a piece of plate and £1100 for his services to county of Cornwall 18 Feb. 1869; police magistrate of city and garrison of Gibraltar 30 Dec. 1868 to Sep. 1875, an attempt made to assassinate him March 1873. _d._ Pelynt near Lostwithiel 8 June 1878. KENDALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Padstow 1803; in employment of Shepherd and Gain, woollen drapers, Exeter; a linen draper Queen st. Exeter; partner in firm of Shepherd, Kendall and Tucker, woollen drapers, Exeter 1834, made a fortune and retired; mayor of Exeter 1862 when he contributed to the cost of the Albert memorial museum; V.P. of Devonshire Assoc. at Exeter meeting 1862; instrumental in building Wonford asylum 1869; fell down stairs and broke his thigh 25 March, _d._ 6 Summerland, Heavitree road, Exeter 29 March 1878. _Trans. Devonshire Assoc. x_ 56–7 (1878). KENDRICK, EMMA ELEONORA (dau. of Josephus Kendrick, sculptor). _b._ 1788; a successful miniature painter; miniature painter to Princess Elizabeth of Hesse Homburg, and to Wm. IV. 1831; exhibited 84 miniatures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 74 at Suffolk st. 1811–40; author of Conversations on the art of miniature painting 1830. _d._ 6 April 1871. KENDRICK, JAMES (1 son of James Kendrick 1771–1847, M.D.) _b._ Buttermarket st. Warrington 7 Nov. 1809; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 1 Aug. 1833; in practice at Warrington 1833 to death; took charge of the antiquities in Warrington museum 1859; paid for the excavation of the Roman station at Wilderspool and gave the remains discovered to the museum; gave 300 books bearing the Warrington imprint to the library; wrote papers in archæological journals; author of Cursory remarks on the present epidemick 1832; An account of excavations made at Mote Hill, Warrington 1853; Profiles of Warrington worthies 1853, 2 ed. 1854; A morning’s ramble in Old Warrington 1855; with William Robson, Memorials of Dr. Robson of Warrington. _d._ Warrington 6 April