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"SIR FREDERIC GEORGE KENYON (1863-), English classical scholar and librarian, was born in London Jan. 15 1863, the son of John Kenyon, Vinerian professor of law at Oxford. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and in 1888 was elected to a fellowship at Magdalen College. In 1889 he became an assistant in the British Museum, and in 1898 was chosen assistant keeper of MSS. there, being in 1909 appointed director and principal librarian of the Museum. In 1912 he was created K.C.B., and in 1913 was president of the Classical Association. During the World War he served with the army (1914-9), and in 1918 became adviser to the Imperial War Graves Commission. In 1917 he became president of the British Academy, in 1918 professor of ancient history in the Royal Academy, and in 1919 president of the Society for Hellenic Studies.

His published works include editions of Aristotle's Constitution of Athens (1891, 1904, 1920) with translations of the same (1891, 1920); Classical Texts from Papyri in the British Museum (1891); Catalogue of Greek Papyri in the British Museum (1893, 1898, 1907); Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts (1895); Palaeography of Greek Papyri (1899); and Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (1901, new ed. 1912). He has also produced various editions of the works of the Brownings, including the Letters (1897) and Poems (1897) of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. He was editor of the centenary edition of Robert Browning's works (1912) and produced in 1914 New Poems of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In 1914 he published an account of the buildings of the British Museum.