Kenneth Sisam FBA (2 September 1887 – 26 August 1971) was a New Zealand academic and publisher, whose major career was as an employee of the Oxford University Press.
[3] Poor health ruled out military service, and he went to work part-time on the Oxford English Dictionary.
With his promotion to assistant secretary, they built a family house at Boars Hill.
Appointed OUP secretary in succession to Chapman in 1942, he became a Fellow of Merton College.
[2] In 1948, he retired to the Scilly Isles but continued to produce scholarship, including an influential article on 'Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogies'[5] and The Structure of Beowulf (1965).