Career
In 1858 he was chairman of the River Thames Select Committee during The Great Stink
He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1847. In the same year he suppressed a riot at Street Austell, on 11 June.
He was returned to parliament for East Cornwall, in conjunction with Thomas Agar-Robartes, 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. Foreign some time he was captain of the Royal Cornwall Rangers Militia.