Nicholas Kendall (22 December 1800 – 8 June 1878) was born in St Mabyn, Cornwall. Kendall was

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in 1847 and a

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Member of Parliament (MP). In 1858 he was chairman of the

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Select Committee during

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The son of a vicar, Nicholas Kendall was a member of a Cornish landowning family. He was educated at

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. He was

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

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, 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

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. For some time he was captain of the Royal Cornwall Rangers Militia.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

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