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About Stephen Rendell
- Stephen Rendell (May 24, 1819 – April 4, 1893) was an English-born merchant and politician in Newfoundland.
- He represented Trinity Bay in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1859 to 1873. He was born in Coffinswell, Devon, the son of John Rendell.
- In 1834, he was apprenticed to the merchants Bulley, Job and Company operating in St.
- John's.
- In 1859, he became a partner.
- Rendell, a supporter of union with Canada, was named to the colony's Legislative Council in 1874.
- He served as a founding member and president of the St.
- John's Agricultural Society.
- As a hunter, Rendell helped implement the introduction of snowshoe hares, now an important small game animal and food source on the island, from Nova Scotia.
- He resigned from business and returned to England in 1881 because of ill health due to asthma, later dying in Coffinswell at the age of 73.
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