Nicholas Kendall (22 December 1800 – 8 June 1878) was born in St Mabyn, Cornwall.
Kendall was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1847 and a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).
In 1858 he was chairman of the River Thames Select Committee during The Great Stink The son of a vicar, Nicholas Kendall was a member of a Cornish landowning family.
He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford.
He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1847.
In the same year he suppressed a riot at St Austell, on 11 June.
He was returned to parliament for East Cornwall, in conjunction with Thomas Agar-Robartes, in 1852, which position he retained without intermission until 1868.
Mr Kendall was one of the county magistrates and also a deputy-lieutenant, and deputy warden of the Stannaries.
For some time he was captain of the Royal Cornwall Rangers Militia.