Brian Hartley Kemball-Cook (December 12, 1912 – September 19, 2002[1]) was a classicist[2] and headmaster at a direct grant grammar school in Blackburn and Bedford Modern School. Among other works, Kemball-Cook published his translation of Homer's Odyssey into English in the original hexameter (1993).

He was the son of Basil Kemball-Cook and his wife Nancy Pavitt. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford.[3]

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  1. ^ "Lives in Brief: Brian Kemball-Cook, headmaster and academic". The Times. October 23, 2002.[dead link]
  2. ^ Kemball-Cook, B. H. (December 1962). "Some School Books". The Classical Review. 12 (3): 301. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00214649.
  3. ^ "Kemball-Cook, Brian Hartley". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 27 March 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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