Everything about John Kendrick Cloth Merchant totally explained
John Kendrick (
1573–
1624) was a prosperous
English cloth merchant and patron of the
towns of
Reading and
Newbury in
Berkshire.
Kendrick was born in
Reading,
Berkshire, possibly in Minster Street, in
1573 and educated at
Reading School and
St John's College, Oxford. After University, he moved to
London where he amassed a fortune in trade with the
Netherlands.
When Kendrick died on
December 30 1624, he left
£12,500 to the towns of Reading and
Newbury to provide employment and education for the poor. A house of industry, or
workhouse, was erected in Minster Street, Reading with this money and called
The Oracle as a compliment to Kendrick's vision; that name was revived for the
Oracle shopping mall which now occupies the site.
Although the funds left by Kendrick were mismanaged, sufficient remained for the founding of two schools:
Kendrick Boys School in
1875 and
Kendrick Girls School in
1877. In
1915, Kendrick Boys School was taken over by
Reading School, which now has a building named the John Kendrick Building. An oil painting of John Kendrick, rescued from the Oracle workhouse, hangs in the hall of Kendrick Girls School. The caption reads "John Kendrick, founder of this workhouse".
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