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* KEN. 440 KENDALL. 1667, and prebend at. Winchester in 1669. In 1U75 he visited Konie with liis nephew, Isaac Walton, and in 107'.), on his return, after five ye.irs' absence, accompanied Mary, Princess of bran-je. as her cliaplain. to Holland. In 1680 he became chaplain to Charles 11., whom he at- tended in his last illness. Shortly before his death the Kin<» nominated Ken to the bishopric of Hath and Wells (lliS4). He was not fully invested with the c])iscopal functions till after the accession of .lames 11. For refusinj; to obey the order of the Kinjr to read the declaration of induljience, he was sent to the Tower, with six other bishops (16S8). Nevertheless, when the I'rince of Orange ascended the throne as William lU.. he refused to transfer his allegiance to the new King, considerin;,' James still his lawful sov- ereign. For this be was deprived of his bishopric (April, 1691). He died .at l.ongleat, March 19, 1711. Bishop Ken was a man of solid and ex- tensive learning, refined tastes, and wide sympa- thies, and in oHice displayed great zeal and self- devotion. He was the author of several volumes of sermons, theological treatises and of many devotional writings. His "Morning Hymn" ("Awake, my soul, and with the sun"), and "Evening Hymn" ("Olory to Thee, my God, this night"), are surpassed by none in the language. The familiar doxology, "Praise (iod, from Whom all blessings flow," is his coni])Osition. His works have been several times published. Consult his 4.ife. by Plumptre (2 vols., London, 1888 ; rev. ed. 1890)." KENAI, keni'. A peninsula projecting from the southern coast of Aloska. between Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound (.Map: Alaska, E ."?). It is HiO miles long, with a maximum width of 110 miles, and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus 20 miles wide. Its coasts are nmch indented, and there are several good harbors. The interior is mountainous and mostly barren. It contains coal-beds, and gold has been found on the northwest coast. KEN'DAL, or Kirkby Kend.vl. A municipal borough and market town in Westmoreland. Eng- land, on the Kent, 22 miles south-southwest of Applebv (.Map: England, D 2). It is a strag- gling towii. with an ancient fiothic church and a ruined castle. The n.nme 'kendals' is applied to the cloths produced here, which, with carpets, worsted stockings, cottons, linsey-woolseys, doe- skins, tweeds, and coat-linings, are the staple manufactures of the town. In the vicinity are also dye. marble, leather, shoo, and paper works. The weekly market is the chief one for corn and provisions'in the county. The town owns its water, gas. free lihrarv. two recreation-grounds, markets, baths, and slaughter-houses, and maintains a sewage farm, hospital and fire brigade. .John Kempe of Flanders, cloth-weaver, w ith other com- patriots, settled in Kendal under the protection of Edward 111., and inaugurated its industries. The town was incorporated in I. "575. Population, in I SOI, 14.400: in 1901, 14,200. KENDAL, Mr. (1843—). . English actor, whose real name is William Hunter Grimston. He was born in London, and made his dfbut in Glas- gow when about eighteen yrars old. Some four years later he appeared in London, at the Hay- market, and in 1869 he married Madge Robertson, with whose career bis own has since been closely associated. He and John Hare as partners man- aged the Saint James's Theatre from 1879 to 1 888. See Mas. Kenual. KENDAL, Mr.s. ( I84U— ) . The stage name of .Mrs. .larg:>ret ('Madge") Robertson Grimston, a well-known English actress. She was born at Great tirimsby, ilarch lo, 1849, of a theatrical family, and appeared as a child in several roles, but niade lier regular debut in 18(i5 as 0|)helia, at the Haymarket, London. She was married in 1869 to W. H. Grimston (Mr. Kendal), with whom she has acted ever since. In 1875, at the UiK'ra Comique, she made a great success as Miss Hard- castle. After a few years at the Court and Prince of Wales's theatres, in the course of which she played Dora in the English version of Sar- dou's liii-lomiiai, one of her gi-eatest roles, she came with ner husband to Saint James's Theatre, where among her noted parts were those of Kate Verity in The Squire (1881), Claire de Beaupre in The Ironmaster (1884), Rosalind in As You Like It (1S8.3), Antoinette Rigaud (1886), and Lady Clancarty (1887). Mr. and -Mrs. Kendal made their American d'''but in A Scrap of I'aper in 1889, and the success of their first tour in the United States was re|)ealed in several successive seasons. In 1893 they jjroduced The Second Mrs. TatK/iicray in this co"untry. Of their later Eng- lish productions. The Elder Mis.i lUossom is per- haps the most noteworthy. Consult: Archer, "Jlr. and Mrs. Kendal," in Matthews and Hutt(m. .ictors and Actresses of llreat Britain and the United States (New York, 1886) ; Scott, The Drama of Yesterday and To-Day (London, 1899) ; Pendjcrton, The Kendals, A Biography (New York, 1900). KEN'DALL, .A.MOS (1789-1869). An Ameri- can politician, born at Dunstable, Mass. He was graduated at U:irtmouth College in 1811, taught school and studied law at Groton, Mass.; re- moved to Washington, D. C, in I8I4. and thence went to Kentucky, where he became a tutor in the family of Henry Clay. In October of that year he was admitted to the Kentucky bar, and in the following year he became editor of a >aKV at Georgetown", Ky. In September, 1816, be he- came editor of the Frankfort Arijiis. which was later one of the principal Jackson organs in the State, He was one of Jackson's chief advisers, and when the latter became President, in 1829 he took Kendall with him to Washing- ton, appointing him Fourth Auditor of the Treas- ury. At Washington Kendall came to occupy a unique position. The foremost figure in Jack- son's famous 'Kitchen Cabinet' (q.v.), "he proved more and more," says W. G. Sumner, in his Life of .Jaelson, "the masterful spirit of the Administration." Jackson made him Postmas- ter-General in 183.5. and he continued in that office during a greater part of Van Ruren's term, administering the office with skill and integrity, and introducing many improvements in the ser- vice, of which the nioney-order system was the most important. After his retirement from of- fice, he edited newspapers for several years, and in 184.5 became interested with Samuel F. R. Morse in the development of telegraph patents, a connection which continiicd until 1860 and made Kendall's fortune. Toward the end of his life he gave freely to various educational and charitable institutions, founding the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and violently opposed secession, supporting Lincoln throughout