Background
His father was the founder of the Eastern Telegraph Company, which later became Cable & Wireless.
His father was the founder of the Eastern Telegraph Company, which later became Cable & Wireless.
He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1900. Pender was the eldest son from Sir John Pender"s first marriage to Marion Cairn. His younger half-brother was Sir John Denison-Pender, father of John Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender.
He was a Director of Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company "Telcon" taken over decades later by British Insulated Callender"s Cables, Director Globe Telegraph Trust, Director Direct United States Cable Company Limited, Director Eastman Kodak New Jersey, and the Chairman of Eastman Kodak (United Kingdom) from 1898 until 1913.
He unsuccessfully contested Northamptonshire Mid at the 1892 general election. In 1897 he was made a baronet, of Thornby Hall in the County of Northampton.
lieutenant was rumoured at the time that the Prince gave up yacht racing in favour of horse racing (at which he was very successful) as his Yacht Britannia regularly lost to the Kaiser"s yawl Meteor II (George Lennox Watson design, 1896). In 1908, Pender"s new Camper & Nicholsons 23mR Brynhild II defeated the Sir Thomas Lipton"s Shamrock and Myles Burton Kennedy"s White Heather II (both Fife designs) in the Cowes regatta and the King"s Cup.
James Pender"s other yachts Lamorna and Florinda (later rechristened Gosport Mistake and Siesta) were all built and designed by Camper & Nicholsons.
Pender married Mary Rose Gregge-Hopwood of Hopwood Hall. They lived at Donhead House, Donhead Street Andrew, Wiltshire.
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He was elected at the 1895 general election also sat as Member of Parliament for Mid Northamptonshire, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1900 general election.