James Parkhill Rathbone

(1920 - ?)

James Parkhill Rathbone was a UK fan active in Edinburgh, Scotland in the thirties and forties.

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.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Dawn Shadows [1940-41]
• Macabre [1939] (likely the first fanzine produced in Scotland)

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Person

1920—

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