[2] His father was an Old Etonian and Oxford graduate from a wealthy family who had been a captain in the Green Howards and the Indian Army,[3] but had fallen on hard times since resigning his commission and becoming a chemist, working for Scott & Co. Chemical Works at Bow, London; he was also a director of the Anglo American Leather Cloth Company.

[4] Kindersley was educated at Repton School but was forced to leave in 1887 when his father could no longer afford the fees.

Kindersley is chiefly recognised for his work as chairman of the National Savings Committee from 1916 to 1920; he was then its president until 1946.

He married Gladys Margaret Beadle, daughter of the military artist James Prinsep Beadle, of Worton Grange, co. Wiltshire,[6] on 3 November 1896 and had six children; Lionel, Hugh, Margaret, Richard, Philip (who married Oonagh Guinness and Valerie Violet French) and Elizabeth.

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