British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index

Biographical Notes: Page 22

Pike, W. H. (1846-1908) (items) (chron.)

apparently also known as ’Oliver Paque’.

Pink, [Rev.] Harry Leigh “Hal” (1906-1973) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/hal-pink.html

Pitman, [Sir] Isaac (1813-1897) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pitman

Pitt, William (?-1840) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pitt_(ship-builder)

Plarr, Victor (Gustave) (1863-1929) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Plarr

Platt, Charles (1865-1935?) (items) (chron.)

Born in Hampstead; educated privately; author and editor.

Platt, Edward (1872-1946) (items) (chron.)

See www.fieldingandplatthistory.org.uk/content/people/the_platt_family/edward_platt

Pocock, (Henry) Roger (Ashwell) (1865-1941) (items) (chron.)

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

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

Poisson, Jeanne Antoinette; [Marquise de Pompadour] (1721-1764) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Pompadour

Pollock, [Sir] Frederick, 3rd Baronet (1845-1937) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Frederick_Pollock,_3rd_Baronet

Pollock, William (1886-1972) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pollock_(cricketer)

Polo, Eddy (1875-1961) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Polo

Ponsonby, [Colonel] Charles (Edward) (1879-1976) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponsonby

Poole, Reginald Heber (1885-1959) (items) (chron.)

Born in Northwich; author, editor, and journalist.

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope

Pope, Jessie (1868-1941) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Pope

Portor, Laura Spencer (1872-1957) (items) (chron.); name also given as Laura A. Porter and Laura Spencer Porter.

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Spencer_Portor_Pope

Potter, Raymond (1860-1936) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.com/2018/10/raymond-potter.html

Potts, Leonard (1902-1978) (items) (chron.)

See ashrarebooks.com/2020/07/09/leonard-potts/

Powers, Paul S(ylvester) (1905-1971) (items) (chron.)

See tainted-archive.blogspot.com/2011/09/riding-pulp-trail.html

Prance, Bertram (Stanley) (1889-1958) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Prance

Prater, Ernest (1864-1950) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Prater

Preston, Harriet Waters (1836-1911) (items) (chron.)

See www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/preston-harriet-waters

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; [i.e., Kumar Sri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II] (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)