# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-kendall
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:01:07.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-kendall"
name: "Thomas Kendall"
slug: "thomas-kendall"
description: "Thomas Kendall was a schoolmaster, an early missionary to Māori people in New Zealand, and a recorder of the Māori language. An evangelical Anglican, he and his family were in the first group of missionaries to New Zealand, accompanied to the Bay of Islands by Samuel Marsden in December 1814 and settling there. He wrote the first book in Māori, published in 1815. By 1821 he felt it necessary to accede to local Māori demands for guns in order to ensure their continued protection of the mission, and the Church Missionary Society dismissed him in 1822 for gun dealing. Marsden visited New Zealand to dismiss him in person in 1823, after learning that he had committed adultery with a Māori woman. Kendall left New Zealand in 1825 and died in a ship sinking in Australia in 1832."
tagline: "New Zealand missionary (1778-1832)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Kendall.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1778-12-13"
deathDate: "1832-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.6
  momentum:             1.242603550295858
  historical:           4.147013333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "توماس كيندال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kendall"
    title: "Thomas Kendall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kendall"
    title: "Thomas Kendall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Kendall"
    title: "Thomas W. Kendall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2425362"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump