Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon (12 September 1893 – 28 December 1959) was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist. A campaigning pacifist at the beginning of the 2nd World War, he had served in the 1st and termed himself a conscientious objector thereafter.
Life
He was the son of Samuel Kendon, a schoolmaster at Bethany School, Goudhurst; the educator Olive Kendon was his sister. He matriculated in 1921 at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948.
Works
- Poems by Four Authors (1923) with J. R. Ackerley, A. Y. Campbell, and Edward Davison
- Poems and Sonnets (London, 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
Family
Kendon had four children with his wife, Elizabeth Cecilia Phyllis Horne, a school teacher. The children were in order of birth; Alice (nee Kendon, then Stephens then Thomas) a prolific linguist, Adam Kendon, Andrew a talented musician and artist, and Thomas (known as Adrian) who is the last surviving of the Kendon siblings, also a talented musician.