A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kenderdine, John
KENDERDINE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 7; h-p., 32.)
John Kenderdine entered the Navy, 22 July, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Caroline frigate, Capt. Chas. Dudley Pater, on accompanying whom, as Midshipman, into the Cressy 74 (commanded afterwards by Capt. Chas. Dashwood), he was in company with the St. George and Defence when those ships were lost on their passage home from the Baltic during a violent gale in Dec. 1811. He continued in the Cressy, on the West India and Home stations, until Feb. 1814; between which period and Aug. 1815 we find him employed, at Portsmouth, in North America, and at Plymouth, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Puissant 74, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, Tonnant 80, flagship of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane, Diadem 64, Capt. John Martin Hanchett, and St. George 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth. He then took up a commission dated 7 March, 1815, and has since been on half-pay.
He married, in 1827, Elizabeth Harriet, daughter of Mr. Brutton, Governor of the County Prison, Stafford.