Sir Frederick George Kenyon

Frederick George Kenyon was born in London in 1863. He was educated at Winchester School and New College, Oxford. In 1889, he entered the British Museum as an assistant in the department of manuscripts, cataloguing its collection of Greek papyri and publishing English translations. In 1898, he was promoted assistant keeper of manuscripts and in 1909, was appointed director of the museum, an office he held until his retirement in 1930.

He served in France during the First World War, acting as adviser to the Imperial War Graves Commission from 1917 to 1948. He was knighted in 1912 and died in 1952.

From the guide to the Sir Frederick Kenyon collection, 1916-1933, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)