T. D. Kendrick

Sir Thomas Downing Kendrick (1 April 1895 – 2 November 1979) was a British archaeologist and art historian.

Life Early life Kendrick was born on 1 April 1895 in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham, England, to Fanny Susan (nee Downing, born 1865) and Thomas H. Kendrick (1867–1902). He had a younger brother, William (born 1899). He was subsequently made keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department in 1938.

He was honoured with the appointment as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1951 Birthday Honours.

Kendrick died on 2 November 1979 in Dorchester. In 1941 Senior gave birth to a daughter, Sally Maud Senior. Elizabeth was killed by an air raid during the Blitz, around ten weeks after Sally was born. Sally was found alive by an ARP warden, stashed for safety under a table amongst the wreckage of their home, and was raised by her grandmother and aunt.

Publications Books The Axe Age: a study in British prehistory (1925) The Druids: a study in Keltic prehistory (1927) A History of the Vikings (London: Methuen, 1930). Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900 (1938) The Archaeology of the Channel Islands, 2 vols. (1928–38) Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914–1931 (1932) The Presidents of the Society of Antiquaries of London: with biographical notes (1945) (with Sir James Mann) Late Saxon and Viking art (1949) British Antiquity (1950) The Lisbon Earthquake (1956) St. James in Spain (1960) Great Love for Icarus (1962) – a semi-autobiographical novel Mary of Agreda: the life and legend of a Spanish nun (1967)

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