John Kennedy Melling
John Kennedy Melling (11 January 1927 – 10 October 2018) was a British accountant, writer and broadcaster on theatre.
Melling built a large collection of theatre ephemera and was a drama critic for The Stage for 30 years.[1][2]
Selected publications[]
- Southend Playhouses from 1793 (1969)
- Discovering Lost Theatres (1969)
- Discovering London's Guilds and Liveries (1973)
- Discovering Theatre Ephemera (1974)
- Murder Done to Death: Parody and Pastiche in Detective Fiction (1996)
References[]
- ^ "John Kennedy Melling obituary". 4 December 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ "Hitchcock's man in Essex". Echo.
Categories:
- 1927 births
- 2018 deaths
- English accountants
- British theatre critics
- People from Westcliff-on-Sea
- English collectors
- English non-fiction writers
- 20th-century English businesspeople
- British writer stubs