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events in his childhood, when for a word or almost 
a thought he feared was wrong, he experienced 
the pangs of a broken and a contrite spirit, and in 
his later years has felt that pity for his former suf- 
ferings, which he would have done for those of a 
different individual. 
It was impossible for a mother not to be tenderly 
attached to such a disposition in her child; and ac- 
cordingly a more than common affection subsisted 
between them, and he at all times spoke of her as 
his guardian and his friend. 
The family of Kinderley, from whom Sir James 
is descended on the maternal side, is an old and 
opulent one in the north of England. His great- 
great-grandfather, Geoffery Kinderlee of Spalding 
in Lincolnshire, was the intimate friend of Daniel 
de Foe, the well-known author of Robinson Crusoe; 
who in one of the persecutions which he suffered, 
was sheltered from its effects in the house of 
Geoffery Kinderlee. He died in 1714, and is buried 
in Spalding churchyard under a stone bearing this 
character of him: 
‘* He was a very charitable and merciful man.” 
“ The pleasure which from virtuous deeds we have, 
Affords the sweetest slumber in the grave.” * 
Nathaniel Kinderley, Sir James’s great-grand- 
father, lived at Saltmarsh, between Stockton and 
* Of this ancestor many anecdotes are preserved. He was noto- 
rious for having had six wives, and it was whispered that he sought 
them in healthier counties, and that the change to the fens of 
Lincolnshire soon gave him an opportunity of trying his fortune 
again. He drove four horses in his coach, and had an appropriate 
