A. F. (Albert Frank) Kendrick

Albert Frank Kendrick was an English art and textile historian whose career was closely tied to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Sources describe him as joining the museum in 1897 and later serving as Keeper of the Department of Textiles, where he helped shape the study and display of historic fabrics and related decorative arts.

He wrote across a wide range of subjects, from medieval architecture to embroidery, tapestries, carpets, and early textiles. His early book The Cathedral Church of Lincoln appeared in 1899, and later works such as English Embroidery, Catalogue of Tapestries, and Guide to the Collection of Carpets show how strongly he focused on making specialist collections understandable for general readers as well as scholars.

Kendrick is remembered as one of the early museum experts who treated textiles as serious works of art and historical evidence. He also contributed articles to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, and reference sources continue to note his importance in the development of textile history as a field.