| LC control no. | no2018147459 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mead, Harold, 1910-1997 |
| Variant(s) | Mead, Harold Charles Hugh, 1910-1997 |
| Birth date | 1910-09-25 |
| Death date | 1997-09-02 |
| Place of birth | Udagamandalam (India) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Science fiction |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Army. Dorset Regiment University of Southampton |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Prisoners of war |
| Found in | The bright phoenix, 1956: title page (by Harold Mead) Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 29 October 2018 (Harold Mead; full name: Harold Charles Hugh Mead; born in Ootacamund, Travancore, British India on 25 September 1910; died 2 September 1997; science fiction author) Wikipedia, German, 29 October 2018 (Harold Mead; Harold Charles Hugh Mead (born September 25, 1910 in Ootacamund , Travancore , India; died September 2, 1997 in London) was a British science-fiction author; his parents were tea planters Alfred Hugh Mead and Winifred Ada Whitby; he joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1929 and served from 1930 in the Dorsetshire Regiment of the British Army; in 1941 he graduated from Staff College in Camberley; he later studied at St. Catherine's College Cambridge University, where he graduated in 1950; during the Second World War he was a Japanese prisoner of war in Siam for four years; in 1948 he retired from military service; he was then head of the Hall of Residence at the University of Southampton from 1952 to 1963; in addition to contributing to John Bull, Blackwood's and similar magazines, Mead wrote two science fiction novels: The Bright Phoenix (1955) and Mary's Country (1957)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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