Sir John Kendrick (or Kendricke; died 1661) was an English merchant and politician who was

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in 1652.

Family

Sir Thomas Mowlson/Moulson & his wife Anne (Radcliffe) Mowlson/Moulson left no children - https://archive.org/details/genealogicalglea01byuwate/page/658/mode/2up?view=theater. The Kendricks are mentioned but in a cousin relationship. John Kendrick was the son of Hugh Kendrick, of

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, and his wife Anne Moulson.Sanders, Francis, Irvine, William Ferguson, and Brownbill, J
"The Cheshire Sheaf"
pg. 41 His paternal family was kin to the

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as well as the merchant John Kendrick. His maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Moulson, was Lord Mayor of London in 1634, while his maternal grandmother,

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, was the namesake of

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. He seems to have had five sisters. Kendrick married Katherine Evelyn, a cousin of the noted author

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, and is mentioned in Evelyn's famous

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as "a fanatic Lord Mayor, who had married a relation of ours."

Career

Kendrick was a member of London's Grocer's Company, one of the city's livery companies. He was elected as

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in 1645, serving alongside future mayor

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. He was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1651. Kendrick was noted as a staunch

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and Republican. He was one of the aldermen who in 1648 was appointed by Parliament as part of a committee to form a militia to defend the rights and liberties of the city of London. During his mayoral term, he witnessed the

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undertaken by

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to regain his lost estates by renouncing Catholicism. He also was the primary audience for a sermon by the Puritan divine

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after a great eclipse during his mayoralty.University of Oxford Text Archive
/ref> He had business dealings with the Irish faith healer

Valentine Greatrakes Valentine Greatrakes (14 February 1628 – 28 November 1682), also known as "Greatorex" or "The Stroker", was an Irish faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Early life Greatrakes was born on ...

, who purchased an interest in Kendrick's estates in Tipperary.Elmer, Pete
"The Miraculous Conformist"
pg. 44

Death

Kendrick died in 1661. His old associate Valentine Greatrakes acted as a representative for his heirs; several former owners of Kendrick's Irish estates sought to repossess the estates under the

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, and Greatrakes assisted Kendrick's heirs in their efforts to keep their inheritance intact.

References

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