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