Herbert Warnes

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Herbert 'Bert' Warnes (once and seemingly erroneously referred to as Henry Warnes), was a fan from Leeds active in the 1930s. He was a member of the Science Fiction League (SFL) and the Science Fiction Association (SFA).

Warnes was the founder, along with George Airey and Douglas W. F. Mayer, of Chapter 17 of the SFL, the first in the UK. Their first meeting was held in May 1935 and by the end of the year they had about 12 members and at some point Warnes became director. He attended the 1937 Leeds Convention where he was the chairman and he printed its souvenir booklet. He joined the SFA in February and was appointed assistant treasurer of the Association, and later became chairman of its Leeds branch. He attended the Second British Convention in London in 1938 where he was called on to report on their activities:

Mr. Warnes … admirably sidestepped the responsibility by saying that better reports than he could deliver were printed each month in Novae Terrae. However, he mentioned the interesting and profound debates that were held each month; and dwelt for a few minutes upon the other side of their Branch activities – that connected with the producing of Tomorrow, Amateur Science Stories etc.

The Leeds SFA disbanded in mid-1939. Warnes is not listed in the 1945 Directory of Anglo-Fandom.

However, in 1987 he was one of two veterans of the 1937 convention to attend a convention called Conception to mark its fiftieth anniversary.

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