British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index

Biographical Notes: Page 23

Paull, H(arry) M(ajor) (1854-1934) (items) (chron.)

Born in Monmouth; educated privately; civil servant and dramatist.

Paust, Gil(bert Harry) (1912-1988) (items) (chron.)

Free-lance writer and the 14th editor of Adventure magazine. An expert on outdoor sports such as hunting and fishing, and also knowledgeable about aeronautics. His claim to hold a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University cannot be substantiated. Born in and resident of Yonkers, New York. Like Alden Norton before him and Bruce Cassiday after him, Gil Paust contributed prolifically to Adventure, but because he used a number of pseudonyms, his contributions are not realized.

Pavey, L(eonard) A(rthur) (1888-1961) (items) (chron.)

Born and educated in London; popular writer of short stories; lived in Sussex.

Payne, G(ilbert) M(orris) (1879-1947) (items) (chron.)

See https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2007/08/g-m-payne.html

Payne, Will (1865-1954) (items) (chron.)

Born in Whiteside County, Illinois; journalist and financial editor of Chicago Daily News, Chicago Chronicle and Economist; contributed fiction to magazines.

Pearce, Charles E(dward) (1843-1924) (items) (chron.)

See charlespearce.org/people/charles-e-pearce.html

Pearce, (Charles Louis) St. John (1877-1941) (items) (chron.)

See charlespearce.org/people/st-john-pearce.html

Pears, Charles (1873-1958) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pears

Pearse, [Major] Albert (1866-1945) (items) (chron.)

See www.thepeerage.com/p57252.htm#i572514

Pearse, Alfred (1856-1933) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Pearse

Pearson, Alec G(eorge) (1854-1937) (items) (chron.)

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

Pease, Howard (1863-1928) (items) (chron.)

Educated at Oxford; landowner and magistrate in Northumberland.

Peattie, Louise (Redfield) (1900-1965) (items) (chron.)

See socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w68h0048

Peck, James L(incoln) H(olt) (1912-1996) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Peck_(pilot)

Peddie, Tom; [i.e., Thomas Hutchison Peddie] (1874-1954) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.com/2019/01/tom-peddie.html

Peery, James Robert (1900-1954); used pseudonym Carl Buchanan (items) (chron.)

See mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=439

Pemberton, [Sir] Max (1863-1950) (items) (chron.)

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

Pendered, Mary L(ucy) (1858-1940) (items) (chron.)

Born in London.

Pendexter, Hugh (1875-1940) (items) (chron.)

See pulpflakes.blogspot.com/2012/04/hugh-pendexter.html

Pepper, Frank (Stuart) (1910-1988) (items) (chron.)

Prolific author of boy’s fiction; scriptwriter for boy’s comics.

Percival, Harold (1868-1914) (items) (chron.)

See www.askart.com/auction_records/Harold_Percival/11060676/Harold_Percival.aspx

Perry, Aylesworth Bowen (1860-1956) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylesworth_Bowen_Perry

Pertwee, Roland (1885-1963) (items) (chron.)

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

Petherick, Horace (William) (1838-1919) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.com/2019/02/horace-petherick.html

Pethick, Philip M(axwell) (1921-2011) (items) (chron.)

Author of children’s stories.

Pethybridge, J(ohn) Ley (1865-1905) (items) (chron.)

See cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/j-ley-pethybridge

Pettie, John (1839-1893) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pettie

Pettiward, Daniel (1913-1996) (items) (chron.)

See www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/pettiward-daniel

Pettman, Grace (1870-1951) (items) (chron.)

See womenincornwall.org/grace-pettman

Petts, J(ohn) (1871-1950) (items) (chron.)

Father of K. J. Petts.

Petts, K(enneth) J(ohn) (1907-1992) (items) (chron.)

See discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/5e0cb40b-e09a-4530-8131-b1dda5c871c9

Peyton, Kathleen Wendy; [née Herald] (1929-2023) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._M._Peyton

Pfeiffer, Emily (Jane) (1827-1890) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Jane_Pfeiffer

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; maiden name of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stuart_Phelps_Ward

Philip, Alex(ander) J(ohn) (1879-1955) (items) (chron.)

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

Philips, George Norman; [i.e., George Norman Phillips] (1884-1972) (items) (chron.)

Name spelled Phillips on birth certificate. A surveyor.

Philips, Judson (Pentecost) (1903-1989) (items) (chron.)

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

Phillipps-Wolley, Clive; [born Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillips] (1854-1918) (items) (chron.)

See www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=5603

Phillips, [Reverend] Forbes Alexander (1866-1917) (items) (chron.)

See prabook.com/web/forbes.phillips/735118

Phillips, Roland (Ashford) (1884-1969) (items) (chron.)

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

Phillpotts, (Henry) Eden (1862-1960) (items) (chron.)

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

Phiz; pseudonym of Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hablot_Knight_Browne

Pickthall, Marjorie L(owry) C(hristie) (1883-1922) (items) (chron.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Pickthall

Pierce, Frank(lin) Richardson (1887-1966) (items) (chron.)

Writer. Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts; died in Washington (?).

Piffard, Harold Hume (1867-1939) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.com/2018/09/harold-piffard.html

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pitman

Pitt, William (?-1840) (items)

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

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

See https://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

Plumley, (Gardner) Ladd (1862-1927) (items) (chron.)

See ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KH38-951/gardner-ladd-plumley-1862-1927

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

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

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

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

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

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Pompadour

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

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

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

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

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

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Polo

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

See https://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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope

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

See https://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 https://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