The firm of Kendell is recorded in the Leeds Trade Directories from 1790. They worked at Harewood House in the 1820's and probably began labelling furniture in the 1840's. Marsh & Jones took over the business in 1863. Several pieces bearing the Kendell label exist, including a dressing-table in the collection of Temple Newsam House, Leeds (label is reproduced in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 1978, vol.II, p.332, no.48).