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Born in Handsworth, Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1895 and died in Dorchester 1979
T. D. Kendrick was an Historian of Anglo-Saxon art, Keeper and later Director of the British Museum (1950-59). Kendrick was the son of Thomas Henry Kendrick, a manufacturer and Frances Susan Downing (Kendrick). After his father’s death in 1902 his mother married Prebendary Sowter in 1905. Kendrick attended the Charterhouse School and a year at Oriel College, Oxford, before the outbreak of World War I. He joined the Warwickshire army regiment in 1914, rising to captain. He was wounded in action in France. Resuming his studies at Oxford in 1918, he graduated with a degree in anthropology in 1919 and an MA in the same subject in 1920. Kendrick began a BS, studying the megaliths of the Channel Islands in the manner of his mentor, the anthropologist Robert Ranulph Marett (1866–1943). Armed with this research experience, he was appointed an assistant in the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum under the direction of Ormonde M. Dalton (q.v.) in 1922. Kendrick married the pianist Ellen Martha Kiek (1898/9–1955) in 1922. Kendrick published The Axe Age (1925)
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Nigel Campbell Pennick, born 1946 in Guildford, Surrey, England in the United Kingdom, an author publishing on Occultism, Magic, Natural Magic, Divination, subterranea, rural folk customs, traditional performance and celtic art as well as Runosophy.
He is a writer on marine species as well as an occultist and geomant, artist and illustrator, stained-glass designer and maker, musician and mummer. He also writes on European arts and crafts, buildings, landscape, customs, games and spiritual traditions. He has written several booklets on the history of urban transport in Cambridge and London . He is best known for his research on geomancy, labyrinths, sacred geometry, the spiritual arts and crafts, esoteric alphabets and Germanic Runic studies.
He has written many books in German and has over fifty published books and hundreds of published papers on a wide range of subjects.
He lived most of his childhood in post-war London. He has travelled extensively in Europe and North America, researching, lecturing and conducting ‘workshops’, creating shrines and labyrinths.
His Celtic artwork appeared in the book New Visions in Celtic Art. In 2002 his Celtic artwork was on show in Birmingham in the Celtic Art and Design exhibition at the Central Library and, in 2009 in the exhibit Celtic Spirit Worldwide at the Walkers’ Gallery in San Marcos, Texas.
He founded the Institute of Geomantic Research and later The Library of the European Tradition, which published new research on geomancy and folklore as well as rare archival material from the 19th and early 20th century. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he organized six geomantic conferences in Cambridge and Royston.
[edit] Scientific career
Trained in biology, for 15 years he was a researcher in algal taxonomy for a government institute in Cambridge. During this time, he published 29 scientific research papers on utrastructure and taxonomy of marine microorganisms including descriptions of 8 new species of marine algae and protozoa previously unknown to science before moving on to become a writer and illustrator.
