Frederic G. Kenyon


Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE KCB TD FBA FSA was a British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He occupied from 1889 to 1931 a series of posts at the British Museum. He was also the president of the British Academy from 1917 to 1921, and from 1918 to 1952 he was Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod.

Kenyon was born in London, the son of John Robert Kenyon, the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, and was thus greatgrandson of Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon. He was educated at Winchester College. He graduated B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was later a fellow.

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