Frank Kendon

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Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon (12 September 1893 – 28 December 1959) was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist.

Life[]

He was the son of Samuel Kendon, a schoolmaster at Bethany School, Goudhurst; the educator Olive Kendon was his sister.[1][2] He matriculated in 1921 at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948.[1]

Kendon was a published poet in the 1920s and later a writer of stories and a novel. From 1935 to 1954 he worked for Cambridge University Press. At the beginning of World War II he was a campaigning pacifist. After the war, he undertook the translations of the Psalms in the New English Bible, but died before he could complete the work.

Works[]

  • Poems by Four Authors (1923) with J. R. Ackerley, A. Y. Campbell, and Edward Davison
  • Poems and Sonnets (1924)
  • Mural paintings in English churches during the Middle Ages: an introductory essay on the folk influence in religious art (Bodley Head 1923)
  • Arguments & Emblems (1925)
  • A Life and Death of Judas Iscariot (Bodley Head 1926))
  • The Small Years (1930) autobiography[3]
  • The Adventure of Poetry (1932)
  • Tristram (1934) poem
  • The Cherry Minder (1935) poems
  • The Flawless Stone (1942) poem
  • The Time Piece (1945) poem
  • Each Silver Fly
  • The Farmers Friend
  • Cage & Wing (1947) poem
  • Martin Makesure (1950) novel
  • Jacob & Thomas: Darkness (1950)
  • Thirty Six Psalms, an English Version, Cambridge University Press, 1963

Family[]

Kendon had four children with his wife, Elizabeth Cecilia Phyllis Horne, a school teacher. The children were Alice, Adam Kendon, Andrew and Thomas (known as Adrian).

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b "Interesting Johnians, St John's". www.joh.cam.ac.uk.
  2. ^ Kendon, Olive (1979). Because they asked. Children's House Society. pp. 9–11.
  3. ^ British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951. Univ of California Press. 1955. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-520-36124-9.
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