Henry Ernest Kendall

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

{{other people|Henry Kendall}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Henry Ernest Kendall

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| order = 19th

| office = Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

| term_start = November 17, 1942

| term_end = August 12, 1947

| predecessor = Frederick Francis Mathers

| successor = John Alexander Douglas McCurdy

| monarch = George VI

| governor_general = The Earl of Athlone
The Viscount Alexander of Tunis

| premier = A. S. MacMillan
Angus Lewis Macdonald

| birth_date = {{birth date|1864|4|29}}

| birth_place = Sydney, Nova Scotia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|9|2|1864|4|29}}

| death_place = Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada

| nationality = Canadian

| spouse = Ida B Burchell
Margaret McLennan

| party = Progressive Party of Canada

| relatives = John Stewart McLennan (father-in-law)
Arthur Samuel Kendall (brother)

| children = Helen Kendall (with first wife Ida)
Jim Kendall (son)

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| occupation = farmer, physician

| profession = Politician

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Henry Ernest Kendall (April 29, 1864{{spnd}}September 2, 1949) was a Canadian physician and politician who served as the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1942 to 1947.{{cite web |title=Lieutenant Governors of the Province of Nova Scotia since Confederation |url=https://lt.gov.ns.ca/history |publisher=Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia |access-date=6 May 2025}}

Kendall was the son of Samuel Frederick Kendall of Bristol, England and Emily Long of London. The couple settled in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1857. Kendall, a member and pastor of the Plymouth Brethren, established the Union Church on Mitchell Island in 1866.{{Cite web |url=http://homepage.mac.com/carpenter.architects/icelife46/future/1stIceChampions-hockey-intro.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-09-13 |archive-date=2010-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216131349/http://homepage.mac.com/carpenter.architects/icelife46/future/1stIceChampions-hockey-intro.html |url-status=dead }}

Kendall was widowed in June, 1909 following the death of his wife, Ida B Burchell. Ida's parents were George Burchell and Louisa Lorway from Sydney, Nova Scotia. In 1913, he married Margaret McLennan, daughter of John Stewart McLennan, an industrialist who would be appointed to the Senate of Canada several years later.

During World War I, Kendall enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 9th Stationary Hospital based at Bramshott Military Hospital in England from 1916 to 1919.

In the 1921 federal election, Kendall was an unsuccessful candidate for the Progressive Party of Canada in Hants riding.

He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia at the age of 78, the oldest person to hold the office in the province's history.

Kendall's brother, Arthur Samuel Kendall, was also a physician and served as both an MLA in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and as a federal Member of Parliament.

His son, Jim Kendall (1889-1942), played hockey with the Montreal Wanderers 1906–1907, emigrating to Sydney, Australia (returned to Canada to serve during World War I) and later worked for BHP.{{cite web|url=http://icelegendsaustralia.com/1stIceChampions-hockey-intro.html?p=1.1.3|title=LEGENDS - Hockey - I|website=icelegendsaustralia.com}} Kendall became a hockey great in his adopted home in Australia.

His daughter, Helen Kendall, was a military nurse who was one of 446 Canadians awarded a Royal Red Cross for her service in World War I.