Harold Gottliffe
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Harold Gottliffe was a UK fan from Leeds active in the 1930s. He was a member of the Leeds branch of the Science Fiction League and attended the 1937 Leeds Convention.
After the 1937 convention when Douglas W. F. Mayer proposed that the group secede from the SFL, Gottliffe was one of the opponents along with J. Michael Rosenblum, leading to a schism within the group. Gotliffe edited the Bulletin of the Leeds Science Fiction League for the SFL faction in early 1938, with Rosenblum's The Futurian replacing it as the group's official organ from June.
After the outbreak of the Second World War, Gottliffe, a qualified chemist, joined the Royal Army Medical Corp. He served on a hospital ship which was bombed in Norway and on another that was sunk off Crete, and later attached to a prisoner-or-war camp in Palestine. He returned to Leeds in December 1944 with an intention of becoming fannishly active once more, but he married in March 1945 and was last heard of in the late 1950s running a chemists shop in London. He was noted as an attendee of Norcon II in one account but not in the others so it's unclear if he was actually there.
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