A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rendell, John
RENDELL. (Lieut., 1828. f-p., 11; h-p., 22.)
John Rendell was born 20 Aug. 1797, at Tiverton, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 June, 1814, on board the Cumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Baker, and immediately sailed for the Cape of Good Hope with a convoy of vessels destined for the East Indies. In the course of 1815 he became Midshipman, on the Home station, of the Namur 74, Capt. M‘Kenzie, and Griper 12, Capt. Arthur M‘Meekan; and from the close of that year until Sept. 1820, he was employed in the West Indies, on board the Antelope 50, Capt. Geo. Sayer, Salisbury 50, Capt. John Wilson, Raleigh 18, Capt. Wm. Aug. Baumgardt, and Sybille 44, Capt. Wm. Popham. In 1825 he sailed in the Blossom 24, Capt. Fred. Wm. Beechey (to whose Memoir refer), on a voyage of discovery viâ Cape Horn to Behring Strait, with the ultimate object in view of there co-operating with the contemporaneous and differently-directed expeditions of Capts. Franklin and Parry in their efforts to ascertain the existence of a north-west passage. He returned to England in Sept. 1828; and on 4 Nov. following, while serving at Portsmouth on board the Madagascar 46, Capt. Hon. Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He has since been on half-pay.
He married, 27 April, 1839, Sophia, daughter of Thos. Medland, Esq., of Exeter, and has issue two children. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.