BSFA membership 1958
The British Science Fiction Association was formed in the aftermath of Cytricon IV, the 1958 Eastercon. It continues to this day, the longest lived of the various attempts to create a national sf fan organisation. Many thousands of people have been members during that time with membership numbers exceeding 6,000 by the mid-2000s although the maximum number of members at any time seems to have been about 1,000 and usually below that.
It's obviously impossible to produce a list of everybody who's ever been a member, so the following are the names appearing in the first published membership list in Vector #2. The issue is dated 'Autumn 1958' and the list more explicitly 4 October. These people can be considered to be the founder members.
With the codes preceding the membership numbers, M = full member, A = under-18 associate member, O = overseas member and E = exchange member.
Links in red are being checked in case the person is here already under a variant name.
- Jill Adams (M12)
- Charles L. 'Doc' Barrett (O60)
- Eric Bentcliffe (M2)
- Sid Birchby (M23)
- Raymond A. Bowen (M50)
- Rosel George Brown (O62)
- Ken Bulmer (M54)
- G. M. Carr (O65)
- John Challoner (M45)
- Pete Chappell (M22)
- Meredith Chatterton (M27)
- Karl Dollner (M33)
- Rainer Eisfeld (E57)
- Dick Ellington (O36)
- Walter Ernsting (E56)
- Audrey Eversfield (M43)
- D. K. Fawcett (M64)
- Keith Freeman (M28)
- M. C. Gourlay (M67)
- Jim Groves (M32)
- C. Hammersley (M42)
- M. T. Harrington (A26)
- Frank Herbert (M47)
- Ian Hill (M19)
- John Humphries (M44)
- Terry Jeeves (M4)
- W. F. Jenkins (O37)
- D. C. Jones (M46)
- Eric Jones (M48)
- Brian Jordan (A11)
- John Konig (O40)
- B. Lewington (M24)
- Ethel Lindsay (M21)
- Jim Linwood (A53)
- Peter Mabey (M18)
- R. Macready (M58)
- Bob Madle (O66)
- G. J. Mansell (A63)
- Ivor Mayne (M39)
- Ken McIntyre (M15)
- Archie Mercer (M3)
- Dave Newman (M1) ‡
- P. M. Organ (M61)
- Ella Parker (M17)
- Julian Parr (M16)
- Joe Patrizio (M25)
- David C. D. Potter (M52)
- George Nims Raybin (O69)
- Bob Richardson (M9)
- Alan Rispin (A51)
- Phil Rogers (M20)
- John Roles (M30)
- J. Michael Rosenblum (M41)
- Ina Shorrock (M7)
- Norman Shorrock (M8)
- Frank Simpson (M29)
- Ken Slater (M6)
- Dale R. Smith (O38)
- L. Tapper (M68)
- Arthur H. Tavinder (M59)
- E. C. Tubb (M5)
- Dennis Tucker (M10)
- Norman Wansborough (M31)
- Norman Weedall (M13)
- Arthur "Doc" Weir (M49)
- Peter West (M14)
- Marcus Wigan (A55)
- Bobbie Wild (M34)
- Jack Wilson (M35)
For ‡, Dave Newman was listed as member #1. However, Vector #3 said he 'was originally listed due to a misunderstanding'. M1 was later reallocated to Brian Aldiss but he was not a founder member of the Association.
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