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Durham, and inherited a considerable fortune from 
his father Geoffery before mentioned. He married 
Mary, grandaughter of the honourable Francis 
Pierpoint, uncle to Evelyn Earl of Kingston, bywhom 
he had issue John, Nathaniel, Audrey, and Mary. 
He endowed a school for poor boys at Dundee, and 
attempted to civilize the inhabitants of the northern 
part of England near which he resided. 
Being induced to speculate in a project for the 
improvement of the navigation of the river Dee, 
Mr. Kinderley lost a great portion of his property 
in that adventure: he also engaged in the EKaubrink 
drainage, and was the original projector of the mea- 
sure which has within a few years been carried into 
effect and completed near Lynn in Norfolk. A canal 
in that district is still known by the name of the Kin- 
derley Cut. But these schemes proved unsuccessful 
at the time, and ruinous to Mr. Kinderley’s fortune. 
He left an estate at Setch within four miles of 
Lynn, which thirty years ago was valued at about 
12,000/., and was the residue of the property saved 
from the wreck of his unfortunate speculations. 
airing for every morning in the week, in which his grandson John 
was his frequent companion. In these excursions he heard many 
anecdotes, which he transmitted, probably with some embellish- 
ments, to his successors. 
His sixth wife survived him, and is supposed to have avenged 
her predecessors by her excessive care; for she made a flannel 
cap to his gold-headed cane, lest the coldness of the metal should 
affect his health, and this treatment he did not long survive.— 
But these have the air rather of jocular tales than of serious 
accusations, and we may believe “ he was a very charitable and 
merciful man.” 
