Alexander Pendarves, MP (baptised 11 November 1662 – 13 March 1725)[1] was a Cornish landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1689 and 1725.

[4][5][6] He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1682 and was called to Bar of Gray's Inn in the same year.

He served as Director of Land-Bank in 1696,[7] Stannator for Tywarnhaile in 1703,[7] Commissioner of Prizes from September 1703 to July 1705,[7] Commissioner for Sewers for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1712,[7] and Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown from January 1714 to January 1715.

The group made resolutions calling for inquiries into suspected financial abuses and was "a major threat to the Harley administration".

Lord Lansdowne was of the mindset that should Mary outlive her spouse, the estate she would inherit would repay her for years of misery.

Upon his death in London, Roscrow Castle passed to Pendarves' niece, Mary, daughter of Rev.