Kendall Reginald James von Tunzelmann Saxon MC (1 November 1894 – 1 June 1976) was a New Zealand soldier, first-class cricketer and educator. Ken Saxon was born in Nelson, New Zealand, one of seven children of James and Clara Saxon. He was educated at Nelson College and returned to teach there in 1913. He returned to England in the mid-1920s, taking up a teaching position in Cambridgeshire. At the end of 1928 he began teaching at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood. He married for a second time in May 1931 to Elizabeth Francis of Cambridge. They lived in London.