# 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. 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](/source/Bethany_School,_Goudhurst); the educator [Olive Kendon](/source/Olive_Kendon) was his sister.[1][2] He matriculated in 1921 at [St John's College, Cambridge](/source/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](/source/Cambridge_University_Press). At the beginning of [World War II](/source/World_War_II) he was a campaigning [pacifist](/source/Pacifist). After the war, he undertook the translations of the [Psalms](/source/Psalms) in the [New English Bible](/source/New_English_Bible), but died before he could complete the work. [Timothy d'Arch Smith](/source/Timothy_D'Arch_Smith) argued tentatively for Kendon's inclusion in the canon of [Uranian](/source/Uranians) poets in view of a poem, in *Poems and Sonnets*, singing the praises of naked bathing boys – a Uranian staple.[3]

## Works

- *Poems by Four Authors* (1923) with [J. R. Ackerley](/source/J._R._Ackerley), [A. Y. Campbell](/source/A._Y._Campbell), and [Edward Davison](/source/Edward_Davison_(poet))
- *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[4]
- *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](/source/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.

## Notes

1. ["Interesting Johnians, St John's"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210413092825/https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/interesting-johnians). *www.joh.cam.ac.uk*. Archived from [the original](https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/interesting-johnians) on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2021.

1. Kendon, Olive (1979). *Because they asked*. Children's House Society. pp. 9–11.

1. Timothy d'Arch Smith (1970). *Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English 'Uranian' Poets from 1889 to 1930*. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 171.

1. [*British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Autobiographies Published Or Written Before 1951*](https://books.google.com/books?id=yyHsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166). Univ of California Press. 1955. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-520-36124-9.

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