Nevil Silvertown

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Nevil Silvertown is a bit of a mystery. On the face of it, he was a UK fan from Leeds active in the 1940s. He is listed in Walter J. Daugherty's Directory of Fandom published in 1944 although he is not in the Directory of Anglo-Fandom of 1945.

However, Daugherty's listing has Silvertown residing at 4 Grange View, Chapeltown, Leeds 7, an address suspiciously similar to that of J. Michael Rosenblum who lived at 4 Grange Terrace – there are a lot of roads called Grange Something in that part of the city – and indeed the two houses are about three minutes' walk apart. There is no mention of Nevil Silvertown in Futurian War Digest. The only reference to a person called 'Nevil', 'Nevill' or 'Neville' is Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister. So far there are no identified references to Nevil Silvertown anywhere apart from the Daugherty directory. Ancestry.co.uk identifies nobody with the surname Silvertown in the Leeds area, aside from 'India Rubber Silvertown' in Bradford which is, at the risk of stating the obvious, a business rather than a person.

So was he a hoax? Or some kind of misunderstanding? Further information welcome.

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