James Kendall (politician)

[2] Kendall was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for West Looe at the 1685 English general election.

[3] His niece, and heir at law, Mary Kendall, was also buried in there, in the Chapel of St John the Baptist.

[4] His estate, which included Kendall Plantation in Barbados, was worth £40,000, but he left nothing to his niece and heir at law.

[2] His family was Cornish, being related to the Kendalls of Pelyn, near Lostwithiel, who for many generations past had been active in the politics of Cornwall and England.

[5] In 1866 it was suggested by antiquarian Evelyn Shirley that the family had "perhaps sent more members to the British Parliament than any other in the United Kingdom.