Ronald Sydney Seth

Ronald Sydney Seth (born June 5, 1911 , in Ely England , † February 1, 1985 ) was a British writer . He also wrote under the pen name Robert Chartham .

Life

Seth was a choirboy at Ely Cathedral and was King's Scholar at Ely Cathedral School. He studied at the Sorbonne , Cambridge University and received his PhD in social science. British Dr. Sommer called himself Dr. Chartham and has advised on sexuality since the 1930s . He taught literary studies at the University of Tartu and returned to London in 1939 . He founded the Monitoring Intelligence Bureau, a censorship agency at the British Broadcasting Corporation . In 1941 he was trained in parachuting, thrown in 1942 as a Special Operations Executive in Estonia and taken prisoner. The trap door mechanism of his gallows was blocked, which is why he is counted among the luckiest British spies. He was trained by the security service of the Reichsführer SS and asked to report on other prisoners of war in Oflag 79, a camp for prisoner-of-war officers near Waggum . In April 1945 Heinrich Himmler sent him to London with the offer of a separate peace over Switzerland .

In the 1970s, Seth lived in Malta with his second wife, Barbara McAdam Seth.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ronald Sydney Seth in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martha Eads Ward, Dorothy A. Marquardt, Authors of books for young people , Scarecrow Press, 1971-579 S, p. 462.
2. ↑ Richard Deacon, Spyclopaedia: an encyclopaedia of spies, secret services, operations, jargon and all subjects related to the world of espionage , Futura, 1989 - 416 p., P. 238.
3. ↑ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8095659&j=1