Gerald Cumberland is the pseudonym of the British author, journalist, poet, and composer Charles Frederick Kenyon (1879–1926).
[1][2] Kenyon was a librettist, a writer of essays and of some pieces of police literature.
As a composer, his musical scores included The Maiden and the Flower Garden (1914), an operetta for children.
In 1919 he used the pseudonym Gerald Cumberland to publish his "Books of Reminiscences", two important critical essays on musical life in England, as well some works of police literature.
His book Set Down in Malice was partly based on his two extensive interviews (1906 and 1913) of Edward Elgar,[3] and also describes a meeting with G.B.Shaw as A Terrible Walk.