Percy Fry Kendall, FRS[1] (15 November 1856 – 19 March 1936), was an English geologist who was Professor of Geology at the University of Leeds from 1906 to 1922.
He was educated at home and then studied Biology under Professor T H Huxley FRS and Geology under Professor J W Judd FRS at the Royal College of Science (now part of Imperial College London) in South Kensington, London.
In 1885 Kendall became Bishop Berkeley Fellow at Owens College, Manchester, by then part of the federal Victoria University.
In 1889 Kendall moved to Stockport Technical School as a part-time Lecturer in Natural Sciences.
The university awarded him the degree of MSc in 1905 and in the following year appointed him Professor of Geology.