Sir Norman Kendal CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (1880–8 March 1966) was an English

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 barrister

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 and police

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 officer in the London

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 Metropolitan Police

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.

Kendal was born in Cheadle

Cheadle, Greater Manchester

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, Cheshire

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. He was educated at Rossall School

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 and Oriel College, Oxford, where he studied Modern History, and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple

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 in 1906, practising on the Northern Circuit

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. In 1914 he was commissioned into the 5th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

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. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and in 1917 was attached to the Ministry of National Service as a staff officer. He was promoted Lieutenant

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 in July 1917. In October 1918 he resigned his commission on account of ill-health caused by his wounds.

In November 1918, Kendal was appointed Chief Constable

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 (CID

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) in the Metropolitan Police, and the following year, on the creation of the rank, was promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner

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 (CID). In December 1928, he was appointed Assistant Commissioner "L" (Legal)

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. In 1931 he was moved to be Assistant Commissioner "C" (Crime), holding the post until his retirement on 1 March 1945.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1927 Birthday Honours and knighted

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in 1937.