Frank Kendon

Who was Frank Kendon?

Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon 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 a son named Adam Kendon, born 1934 in London.

After the war, he undertook the translations of the Psalms in the New English Bible, but died before he could complete the work.