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Frederick Haydn Dimmock
Born(1895-12-15)15 December 1895
Luton
Died26 April 1955(1955-04-26) (aged 59)
Welwyn Garden City
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Magazine editor
children's author
Known forSupporter of the Boy Scouts Association

Frederick Haydn Dimmock

the Boy Scouts Association.[2]

Early life

Haydn Dimmock was born in

C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., the publisher of The Scout. Dimmock was taken on at Pearson's in the post of "office boy".[5]

The Scout

Dimmock served with the

new pence).[5] In 1940, publication of The Scout was taken over by the Boy Scouts Association and Dimmock became a member of the Imperial Headquarters staff. In the following year, he was appointed to the additional role of Acting Publicity Secretary.[8]

Science fiction

The first British science fiction magazine was launched in 1934, when Pearson's launched Scoops, a weekly in tabloid format aimed at the juvenile market. Soon Dimmock, Scoops' editor, began to receive more sophisticated stories, targeted at an adult audience; he tried to change the magazine's focus to include more mature fiction but within twenty issues falling sales led Pearson's to kill the magazine. The failure of Scoops gave British publishers the impression that Britain could not support a science fiction publication.[9]

Other work

Dimmock penned a total of sixteen popular junior Scout novels,

Mounties,[12] together with a number of Scout instructional handbooks and an autobiography. He wrote and directed a documentary film about the Scout Movement, Knights of Freedom, which was released in 1947.[13]

Dimmock was made a

Lord Rowallan, the Chief Scout, who paid tribute to Dimmock's skill as an orator, artist and innovator, and concluded: "...thank God for that life, short by modern standards but so rich in achievement. Goodbye, Dim, and thank you".[14]

Published books

  • Peewits of Pinhoe (1915)
  • The Clue of the Ivory Claw (1919)
  • Scouts' Book of Heroes (1919)[15]
  • The Lost Trooper (1928)[16]
  • The Man from Freezing Point (1923)
  • The Scout's Book (1924)[15]
  • Just a Line. Letters to a Scout (1925)[16]
  • The Caravan Scouts (1926)
  • Pat of the Pony Express (1927)[15]
  • The Camp-Fire Book (1927)
  • Lone Scouts of Crusoe Island (1928)
  • Everyday Things You Want to Know (1930)[16]
  • Lefty-Lone Scout (1935)[15]
  • The Secret of Gaunt House (with Michael Poole, 1935)
  • Omnibus of Dog Stories (1937)
  • Carry on, Hilbury! (1939)
  • Ghost Husky (1939)[16]
  • Hazard Hike (1939)
  • Dupree in Alaska (1939)
  • Bare Knee Days (autobiography, 1939)
  • Rivals of Parham (1939)
  • Always a Scout (1940)
  • Bruce the Troop Dog (1940)
  • Bruce-Detective (1941)
  • Jamboree Journey (1948)[15]
  • Stories for Boys (1948)[16]
  • Dupree's Tenderfoot (1949)
  • Always a Scout (1950)
  • The Troop with a Bad Name (1950)[15]
  • The Scout's How-to-do-it Book (1953)
  • Camping Tips and Gadgets (1953)
  • Things a Scout Can Do (1953)
  • Scouting Dodges (1953)[16]
  • Scout Family Robinson (1954)
  • Bruce Again: Further Adventures Of Bruce The Troop Dog (1955)[15]

References

  1. ^ "New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors – Author names starting with Di". authorandbookinfo.com. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  2. ^ Wilson, John S. (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 120
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0754600831
    .
  4. ^ a b c Gordon, Alan and Brooks, Peter (editors), 75 Years of Scouting: A history of the Scout Movement in words and pictures, The Scout Association (1982), ISSN 0263-5410 (p. 58)
  5. ^ a b c d Walker, Colin. "Scouting Milestones – Biographies – Dimmock, Frederick Haydn (1895–1955)". scoutguidehistoricalsociety.com. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  6. ^ "F Hadyn-Dimmock remembered". gln-scouts.org.uk. May 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  7. ^ Walker, Colin. "Scouting Milestones – Books – 1939 Bare Knee Days, Haydn Dimmock". scoutguidehistoricalsociety.com. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  8. ISBN 978-0-600-61398-5
    (p. 175)
  9. ISBN 978-0853238553
    .
  10. ISBN 978-0415227025
    .
  11. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00500.x
    .
  12. ISBN 978-1859281628
    .
  13. ^ "Knights of Freedom (1947)". bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  14. ^ Rowallan, Lord (May 1955). "F. HAYDN DIMMOCK: April 25, 1955" (PDF). The Scouter. XLIX (5): 4/34. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g "Amazon search – F Haydn Dimmock". Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  16. ^ a b c d e f "Amazon search – Frederick Haydn Dimmock". Retrieved 18 February 2017.
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