James Parkhill Rathbone

(October 11, 1919 - 1999)

James Parkhill Rathbone was a fan from Edinburgh, Scotland active in the 1930s and 1940s.

He was a scientific instrument salesman and described himself as ‘extremely interested in mysticism and occultism, aspiring poet and writer, enthusiastic disciple of Algernon Blackwood’. He was a pacifist, and sought Conscientious Objector status in December 1939 but this was denied and he ended up in the RAMC, stationed just outside London.

He died in Camden in London around February 1999.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Dawn Shadows [1940-41] (distributed with Futurian War Digest)
• Macabre [1939] (likely the first fanzine produced in Scotland)

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Person

1910—1999

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