Kenneth Kendall

{{Infobox person | name = Kenneth Kendall | image = | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = | birth_place = British India | death_date = | death_place = Cowes, Isle of Wight, England | education = | occupation = Journalist, television presenter | alias = | title = | family = | spouse = | domestic_partner = Mark Fear | children = | relatives = | nationality = British | years_active = 1948–2012 | credits = BBC NewsTreasure Hunt | module = }} Kenneth Kendall (7 August 1924 – 14 December 2012) was a British broadcaster. He worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, where he was a contemporary of fellow newsreaders Richard Baker and Robert Dougall. He is also remembered as the host of the Channel 4 game show Treasure Hunt, which ran between 1982 and 1989, as well as the host of The World Tonight in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Early life Kendall was born in India where his father, Frederic William Kendall (d. 30 May 1945), worked. He was brought up in Cornwall. Kendall was educated at Felsted School in Essex, England. He read Modern Languages at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for one year before being called up to the British Army. Military service Kendall joined the Coldstream Guards where he was commissioned as a lieutenant. He arrived in Normandy ten days after D-Day but was wounded about a month later. In 1945, he was among 100,000 British military personnel sent to Palestine. In 1946, he was demobilised from the Guards as a captain.