Letter-cutter, sculptor, typographer, draughtsman and teacher, father of the artist Richard Kindersley and husband of Lida Kindersley. He was born in Codicote, Hertfordshire, and was apprenticed to Eric Gill, 1933–6, his stockbroker father paying a small indemnity. He developed into Gill’s trusted assistant, working alongside him on such important commissions as Bentall’s store in Kingston, St John’s College, Oxford, and Dorset House. Kindersley recollected that Gill’s “views on almost any subject were always reasoned if not reasonable, and they influenced me for life.” Gilbert Ledward also taught him. After Gill, Kindersley began to work independently. During World War II he was a conscientious objector, in 1945 moving to Cambridge where he established his first letter-cutting workshop in Barton village, taking on as his apprentice Kevin Cribb, son of Laurie Cribb who had worked with Gill.