A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kendall, Edward Nicholas
KENDALL. (Lieutenant, 1827.)
Edward Nicholas Kendall died 12 Feb. 1845, at Southampton, in his 45th year.
This officer entered the Navy 26 Oct. 1814; and passed his examination in 1822. He served in several expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, including the one to the Polar Sea under Sir John Franklin in 1825-7, on which occasion he was the companion of Dr. Richardson in that branch of it which discovered and delineated the northern coast of America lying between the Mackenzie and Coppermine Rivers. He was awarded a commission dated 30 April, 1827, but does not appear to have been further officially employed.
At the period of his death Lieut. Kendall was Superintendent of the Peninsula and Oriental steam-packet Company. He married, in May, 1832, Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Joseph Kay, Esq., of Greenwich Hospital, and of Gower Street, Bedford Square, by whom he has left issue four children. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.