Key Information
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Pincher, (Harry) Chapman (1914-2014), journalist and author
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Description area
Dates of existence
1914-2014
History
Born, India, 1914.
Educated: Darlington Grammar School and King's College London; BSc in Botany, 1935.
Taught at Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, 1936-1940.
World War Two, 1939-1945: joined Royal Armoured Corps, 1940; Technical Scientific Officer, Rocket Division, Ministry of Supply, 1943-1946.
Defence, science and medical editor, Daily Express, 1946-1973.
Assistant Editor, Daily Express, and Chief Defence Correspondent, Beaverbrook Newspapers, 1972-1979.
Publications:
Breeding of farm animals (Harmondsworth: New York: Penguin, 1946)
A study of fishes (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1947)
Into the atomic age (London: Hutchinson, 1947)
Spotlight on animals (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1950)
Evolution (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1950)
co-author with Bernard Wicksteed, It's fun finding out (1950)
Sleep, and how to get more of it (London: Daily Express, 1954)
novel, Not with a bang (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965)
novel, The giantkiller (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1967)
novel, The penthouse conspirators (London: Joseph, 1970)
Sex in our time (London: Weidenheld & Nicholson, 1973)
novel, The skeleton at the Villa Wolkonsky (London: Joseph, 1975)
novel, The eye of the tornado (London: Joseph, 1976)
Inside story: a documentary of the pursuit of power (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1978)
novel, The four horses (London: Joseph, 1978)
novel, Dirty tricks (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1980)
Their trade is treachery (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1981)
novel, The private world of St John Terrapin: a novel of the Cafe Royal (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1982)
Too secret too long: the great betrayal of Britain's crucial secrets and the cover-up (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1984)
The secret offensive: active measures: a saga of deception, disinformation, subversion, terrorism, sabotage and assassination (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1985)
Traitors - the labyrinths of treason (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1987)
A web of deception: the Spycatcher affair (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1987)
novel, Contamination (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1989)
The truth about dirty tricks: from Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher (London: Sidgewick & Jackson, 1991)
One dog and her man, by Dido (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1991)
autobiography, Pastoral symphony: a bumpkin's tribute to country joys (Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1993)
A box of chocolates, by Dido (London: Bantam, 1993)
Life's a bitch: a canine commentary on human affairs, by Dido (Shewsbury, Swan Hill, 1996)
Tight lines: the accumulated lore of a lifetime's angling (London: Robert Hale, 1997)
Treachery: betrayals, blunders and cover-ups: six decades of espionage (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2011)
autobiography, Dangerous to know (London: Biteback, 2014)
Relationships area
Access points area
Subjects
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
0099 KCLMA
Status
Final
Level of detail
Partial
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Further information is available at the National Archives (F247070)