[Illustration] A younger branch of an ancient Cornish family of
which the principal line became extinct in the early part of the
seventeenth century. They were formerly seated at Treworgy in Duloe,
and are traced to Richard Kendall of Treworgy, Burgess for
Launceston in the forty-third of Edward III. Pelyn has been for many
generations the seat of this family, descended from Walter, third
son of John Kendall of Treworgy, who married a daughter and coheir
of Robert Holland, an illegitimate son of a Duke of Exeter. It has
been remarked of this family, that they have perhaps sent more
members to the British Senate than any other in the United Kingdom.
See Carew, 132 c.; Gilbert's Survey, ii. 176; Lysons, pp. cviii.
178.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three dolphins naiant embowed
sable_.
Present Representative, Nicholas Kendall, Esq. M.P. for East
Cornwall.