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Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon (1893 - December 28 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.
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
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