F. E. Kenchington

Dr F. E. Kenchington was an agriculturist and author, best known for The Commoners' New Forest, one of the core texts on the New Forest area of South and South West England, and was an Associate of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. His family were local to the district, and he moved there during World War II as part of the County War Agricultural Committee. The focus of his work was on the agricultural cultivation of the New Forest area with the aim of reducing wartime dependency on imported food. Though the book was completed in 1942, it wasn't published until 1944 (with second and third editions appearing in 1945 and 1949, respectively) by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. Prior to the war, he had become known for research on the Nile Perch in Sudan, published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London in 1939.