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From: "Colleen" <>
Subject: Re: Arthur Mee
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:35:33 -0000
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Found him in 1901 now. He is then described as an author and editor, born
Stapleford in c 1875 and living in Lambeth. I wonder what he was editor of
at that time?

Colleen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Warn" <>
To: "Colleen" <>; <>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: Arthur Mee


> Colleen,
>
> Thank goodness for Wikopedia!
>
> He was born in 1875 in Stapleford, Notts and died in London in 1943.
>
> When we were young we had a set of his green Children's Encyclopedia.
>
> He lived as I said at Hextable where he wrote the King's England series.
>
> I think that he must have moved to Kent after 1901.
>
> After all, he was only about 26, then!
>
> I guess he was not an established author, by then.
>
> HTH.
>
> Phil
>
> At 21:53 01/12/2005, Colleen wrote:
>
>>Thanks, Phil! I'd been looking for him him on the 1901 census, but there
>>are loads of them and I hadn't a clue where he came from. Though I've now
>>tried looking with Kent as a birth place or keyword but still can't find a
>>likely candidate. Do you know any more about Arthur? I've read so many of
>>his Essex etc parish descriptions I feel that I know the man, yet I know
>>nothing about him whatsoever.
>>
>>Colleen
>
>
>


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