Frank Kendon

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

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948. He 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. Kendon had four children by his wife, Elizabeth Cecilia Phyllis Kendon (née Horne) - a school teacher herself.

Their children, Alice, Adam Kendon, Andrew and Thomas (known as Adrian) have all made their lives in their chosen fields of Arts, Sciences and Music.

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
• 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