Nicholas Kendall was born at St Mabyn

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, Cornwall. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall

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 in 1847 and a Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 (MP). In 1858 he was chairman of the River Thames

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 Select Committee during The Great Stink

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His family was Cornish, being the Kendalls of Pelyn, Lanlivery

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, near Lostwithiel.

He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford

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. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall

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 in 1847. In the same year he suppressed a riot at St Austell, on the 11th of June. He was returned to parliament for East Cornwall

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, in conjunction with Thomas Agar-Robartes

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