Isaac Norton Rendall

Isaac Norton Rendall (September 30, 1825 – November 15, 1912) was an American Presbyterian minister and academic administrator.

[2] Over the decades, he had rejected four petitions from Philadelphia's free Black community to hire qualified African American faculty.

[2] In late October 1912, he became sick and died on November 15, 1912, at his home on the campus of Lincoln University.

In the week subsequent to his death, the Public Opinion called him a "friend of negro[es]" in an obituary due to his work at Lincoln University.

[6] His records are held in the Cooperative HBCU Archival Survey Project, including a book he wrote about Lincoln University.