H. J. Kesson

H. J. Kesson is known for The Legend of the Lincoln Imp, a short work based on the famous Lincoln Cathedral legend. Project Gutenberg lists Kesson as the author of that title and notes the alias "Ursus," suggesting the book may have been published under, or connected with, a pen name.

Reliable biographical details about Kesson are hard to confirm from readily available sources. No clear birth-and-death information or fuller literary profile turned up in the sources reviewed, so it is safest to treat Kesson as an obscure author whose reputation rests mainly on this one surviving folkloric piece.

That obscurity is part of the appeal. The Legend of the Lincoln Imp preserves a playful slice of Lincolnshire storytelling, and Kesson’s name remains linked with keeping that local legend in print for later readers.