British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index

Biographical Notes: Page 21

Preston, Margaret J(unkin) (1820-1897) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Junkin_Preston

Price, Willard (De Mille) (1887-1983) (items) (chron.)

Writer, editor, explorer. Born in Peterboro, Ontario, Canada; died in Laguna Hills, California (?).

Prichard, K(atherine O’Brien) (1851-1935) (items) (chron.)

Born in India.

Priestley, Clive Ryland (1892-1973) (items) (chron.)

Born in Birmingham; educated in Malvern; died in Birmingham, England.

Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Procter

Protheroe, Ernest (Hanley) (1865-1929) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Protheroe

Prout, Geoffrey (Roland Spencer) (1894-1960) (items) (chron.)

Born in Saxilby.

Prowse, Robert (1826-1886) (items) (chron.)

See john-adcock.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/tale-of-two-roberts-by-steve-holland.html

Prowse, Robert (Jr.) (1858-1934?) (items) (chron.)

See john-adcock.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/robert-prowse-jr-sketches-and.html

Pry, Paul (fl. 1890s-1920s); house pseudonym (items) (chron.)

a “generic” pseudonym used by many different authors over the years.

Pudney, John (Sleigh) (1909-1977) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pudney

Pullein-Thompson, Diana (1925-2015) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullein-Thompson_sisters

Punshon, E(rnest) R(obertson) (1872-1956) (items) (chron.)

Born in London.

Purdon, K(atherine) F(rances) (1852-1920) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Purdon

Quirk, Leslie W. (1882-1960) (items) (chron.)

Born in Alta, Iowa; educated at University of Wisconsin; editor and publisher.

Quiroule, Pierre; pseudonym of W. W. Sayer (1892-1982) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/quiroule_pierre

Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rackham

Raife, Raymond; pseudonym of Benjamin Hayward (fl. 1890s-1920s) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/raife_raymond

Raine, William MacLeod (1871-1954) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacLeod_Raine

Rainey, William (1852-1936) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/william-rainey.html

Raleigh, [Sir] Walter (1552?-1618) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh

Ralph, Lester (1876-1927) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Ralph

Ramsay, Rina; [i.e., Catherine Mary Ramsay] (c1875-1950) (items) (chron.)

Born in Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrighshire, Scotland; died in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.

Ramsay, William (1852-1926) (items) (chron.)

See www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1904/ramsay/biographical/

Randell, Christine (Margaret Mann) (1925- ) (items) (chron.)

Born in London.

Ranjitsinhji, Kumar Shri (1872-1933) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjitsinhji

Raphael; [i.e., Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino] (1483-1520) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael

Rayer, Francis G(eorge) (1921-1981) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rayer_francis_g

Raymond, Moore (1903-1965) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/moore-raymond.html

Rayner, P(eter) Alan (1924-2007) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Alan_Rayner

Read, Al(fred) (1909-1987) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Read

Reade, Philip; pseudonym (fl. 1890s) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/reade_philip

Reck, Franklin M. (1896-1965) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_M._Reck

Redmond-Howard, L(ouis) G(eorge) (1884-1949?) (items) (chron.)

Authority on Irish politics and history.

Reed, (Herbert) Langford (1878-1954) (items) (chron.)

Born and lived in London; educated at Hove College; author and journalist; married to author Hetty Spiers.

Reid, Capt. (Thomas) Mayne (1818-1883) (items) (chron.)

Born in Ireland; spent a decade in the U.S.; lived mostly in London thereafter.

Reid, Stephen (1873-1948) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Reid_(artist)

Remington, Frederic (Sackrider) (1861-1909) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Remington

Renouf, É(mile) (1845-1894) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Renouf

Rexford, Eben Eugene (1848-1916) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_E._Rexford

Reynolds, Basil (Hope) (1916-2001) (items) (chron.)

See ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Basil_Reynolds_(1916-2001)

Reynolds, Stephen Allen (1875-?) (items) (chron.)

Adventurer, explorer, traveller; commander of the 1916 expedition to search for sunken treasure in the Spanish Main. Born in Boston; lived in California.

Reynolds, Warwick (Senior) (1832-1896) (items) (chron.)

See ukcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Warwick_Reynolds_(1832-1896)

Reynolds, Warwick (Junior) (1880-1926) (items) (chron.)

See ukcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Warwick_Reynolds_(1880-1926)

Rhondda, Lord; [i.e., David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda] (1856-1918) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alfred_Thomas,_1st_Viscount_Rhondda

Richardson, Anthony (Thomas Stewart Currie) (1899-1964) (items) (chron.)

Born in London; educated at Marlborough College; newspaperman and author.

Richardson, Benjamin Ward (1828-1896) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ward_Richardson

Richardson, Robert (A.) (1850-1901) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Richardson_(poet)

Richmond, William Blake (1842-1921) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake_Richmond

Ricketts, Charles (de Sousy) (1866-1931) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ricketts

Rideaux, Charles de Balzac; [born Ernest Charles de Balzac Willett] (1900-1971) (items) (chron.)

Son of E. Noddall Willett; stepfather’s last name was Ridout which somehow became Rideaux for this author.

Rideing, William H(enry) (1853-1918) (items) (chron.)

Born in Liverpool.

Rieseberg, [Lieut.] Harry E(arl) (1892-1970) (items) (chron.)

Underwater expert, authority on treasure wrecks, prolific writer. Born in Washington, D.C.; died in Paradise, California.

Riou, Édouard (1833-1900) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Riou

Ritchie, Anne Isabella; [i.e., Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie] [née Thackeray] (1837-1919); previously known as Anne Isabella Thackeray (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Isabella_Thackeray_Ritchie

Ritchie, [Sir] Lewis (Anselm da Costa) (1886-1967) (items) (chron.)

Born in London; birth name was Ricci, but anglicized to Ritchie by deed poll in 1941; served in Royal Navy from 1901 until WWII; retired as Captain of the royal yacht “Victoria and Albert”; press secretary 1944-1947 to King George VI.

Rittenberg, Max (Mark Lion) (1880-1963) (items) (chron.)

Mail order expert, worked in advertising; fairly prolific writer for Munsey magazines, traveller. Born in Sydney, Australia; educated at Cambridge College, England. Changed surname to Ritson in 1940.

Rivière, Briton (1840-1920) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briton_Rivière

Robb, John; pseudonym of Norman Robson (1917-1993) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robb_john

Roberts, [Sir] Charles G(eorge) D(ouglas) (1860-1943) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._D._Roberts

Roberts, (Richard John) Lunt (1894-1981) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.com/2018/11/lunt-roberts.html

Roberts, (George Edward) Theodore Goodridge (1877-1953) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Goodridge_Roberts

Robertson, Colin (1906-1980) (items) (chron.)

Note: Born Colin Robertson Cooper in Sculcoates, Yorkshire, but the family name was changed to Robertson before the 1911 census.

Robertson, Frank C(hester) (1890-1969) (items) (chron.)

Prolific writer of westerns; brother of Obe Robertson. Born in Moscow, Idaho; died in Springfield, Utah (?).

Robertson, James Logie (1846-1922) (items) (chron.)

See www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/j-logie-robertson

Robertson, Janet Logie; [born Jessie Simpson] (1860-1932) (items) (chron.)

Wife of James Logie Robertson.

Robertson, Wilfrid (1892-1973) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/robertson_wilfrid