Brian Kemball-Cook

{{short description|English classicist}}

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Brian Hartley Kemball-Cook (12 December 1912 – 19 September 2002{{cite news|newspaper= The Times|url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article816557.ece|title = Lives in Brief: Brian Kemball-Cook, headmaster and academic|date = 23 October 2002}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}) was a classicist{{cite journal|journal=The Classical Review |doi=10.1017/S0009840X00214649 |page = 301|first = B. H.|last = Kemball-Cook |volume=12 |issue=3 |date=December 1962 |title=Some School Books}} 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.{{Who's Who|id=U22799|title=Kemball-Cook, Brian Hartley|access-date=27 March 2023}}