Mike Kilvert
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Mike K. Kilvert was a fan from Stourbridge, UK active in the 1950s. He was a member of the Stourbridge Circle and the BSFA, and attended Brumcon and the 1960 Eastercon. He was nicknamed 'Tripod' because he was keen on cameras.
Kilvert had been friends with Ken Cheslin and Peter Davies since 1947 and the group became the Stourbridge Circle in the winter of 1957–8[1] although Davies writing contemporaneously dated the group's formation to after Easter 1959. Cheslin was in contact with wider fandom through Ken Slater, leading to correspondence with the Cheltenham Group. The trio certainly attended Brumcon.
Kilvert joined the army in February 1960 and didn't resume contact with the Circle although he remained a science fiction reader. He was a longtime customer of bookseller Rog Peyton who was astonished to learn in 2007 that Kilvert had ever attended conventions.
A slight mystery is that Kilvert himself says he, Cheslin and Davies attended Cytricon IV but some details of his account don't coincide with known aspects of the convention. He was equally insistent that he didn't attend the 1960 Eastercon and couldn't have done so because of his military service. However, Archie Mercer's account mentions him being present and Cheslin wrote an account of himself, Davies and Kilvert attending the convention. Further, his signature appears on a copy of the programme book and Don Ford had a piece of paper signed by Kilvert among others.
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