Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert

Colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert (1840–1916) was a British soldier who served in the British Indian Army from the age of nineteen. He wrote regular articles about Indian cookery for the The Madras Mail, Madras Atheneum and The Daily News, using the pen-name Wyvern. These were collected and published in 1878 as Culinary Jottings for Madras, Or, A Treatise in Thirty Chapters on Reformed Cookery for Anglo-Indian Exiles which went through seven editions. Upon retiring from the army and returning to England, he started a cookery school — the Common-sense Cookery Association — in June 1894. Its premises were at 17 Sloane Street in London.