Alfred Stephen Kenyon

Alfred Stephen Kenyon (7 December was an Australian civil engineer and polymath.

History Kenyon was born in Homebush, Victoria, the third son of Alfred Henderson Kenyon (c. 1837 – 15 September 1921) and his wife Agnes Fleming Kenyon, née Agnew ( – 10 December 1919). Kenyon's father started in Australia as a farmer in the Wimmera district, later a bookseller and dealer in artists' materials, chess enthusiast and amateur historian

Kenyon was home-schooled for his early education.

He built up an extensive library of books specializing in Australiana which he sold in 1935.

Other interests Based on his work in country regions of Victoria, Kenyon knew much of the post-settlement history of rural Victoria.

Institutions of which he was a member include: Institution of Engineers Australia Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy of which he was treasurer 1897, secretary 1906, and president in 1928 Historical Society of Victoria, and served as president Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and served as vice-president Royal Society of Victoria Anthropological Society of Victoria Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Society of Genealogists, Australia. Victorian Numismatic Society

Publications A. S. Kenyon The Overlanders A. S. Kenyon The Story of the Mallee (1916) A. S. Kenyon and Charles Barrett Blackfellows of Australia (1930s) A. S. Kenyon and Charles Barrett Australian Aboriginal Art (1947) A. S. Kenyon Stuart Murray on Irrigation in Victoria (1925) A. S. Kenyon and R. V. Billis Pastures New A. S. Kenyon and R. V. Billis The First Century A. S. Kenyon and R. V. Billis The Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip and Victoria A. S. Kenyon The story of Australia : its discoverers and founders (1937) Kenyon and Billis contributed more than 200 biographies of pastoral pioneers to The Australasian and The Argus

Recognition The A. S. Kenyon Library, Red Cliffs, was named for him. A portrait of him by Graham Thorley, short-listed for the 1940 Archibald Prize, hangs there. Justine was the author of The Aboriginal Word Book, a popular source of house names in the first half of the twentieth century, when that practice was fashionable.

They had a home at Lower Plenty Road, Heidelberg, where he died; his remains were interred in the Heidelberg cemetery.