John James Majendie DD (1709–1783) was a Canon of Windsor from 1774 to 1783.^[1]

Life

His father, André Majendie, was a Huguenot minister who fled to England after the Edict of Nantes.

He lived at 10 Denmark Street London from 1758 to 1771.

He was appointed:

• Tutor to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York
• Instructor of Queen Charlotte in the English language
• Vicar of Stoke Prior 1769–1783
• Prebendary of Netheravon in Wiltshire 1752–1783
• Prebendary of the 8th Canonry at Worcester 1769–1774
• to the fifth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1774 and held the canonry until his death.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1768.^[2]

He died at Weston, near Bath in 1783. His son Henry William Majendie became Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Bangor.