British author, drama critic, town planner and economist
Charles Purdom
C. B. Purdom
Born
(1883-10-15)15 October 1883
Southwark, London, England
Died
8 July 1965(1965-07-08) (aged 81)
Welwyn Garden City, England
Occupation(s)
Writer, economist
Spouse
Lilian Antonia Purdom
Children
Ronan H. Purdom Philip C. Purdom Barbara M. Purdom Edmund C. Purdom
Charles Benjamin Purdom (15 October 1883 – 8 July 1965) was a British author, drama critic, town planner, and economist. He was one of the pioneers and founders of the first garden cities, Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City, the latter of which he was appointed Finance Director between 1919–1928. He was then made Honorary Secretary, then Treasurer of the International Federation for Housing and Planning (1931–1935). He was also founder of the Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City Theatre Society, now the Welwyn Drama Club. He won the Howard Walden cup at the Welwyn Garden City Drama Festival and the David Belasco cup in New-York in 1927. He was an author of many books on city development, on Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw plays, Harley Granville-Barker,[1] and on producing plays. He was editor of an English literary periodical called Everyman,[2] covering books, drama, music and travel and featured articles by renowned authors such as Ivor Brown, Arthur Machen, G. K. Chesterton, A. E. Coppard, and Bertrand Russell. He was General Secretary of British Equity (1939–1940) and joint secretary of the London Theatre Council. He was also the earliest biographer of Meher Baba. He was father of the actor Edmund Purdom. He died in Welwyn Garden City in 1965.[3]
^Purdom, C. B., Harley Granville Barker, Man of the Theatre, Dramatist and Scholar, London: Salisbury Square (1955)
^Purdom, C. B., Life Over Again (Autobiography), J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London (1951)
^"Purdom Biographical Notes". Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
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