Author and editor. Associated with Ebenezer Howard, and Finance Director of the Garden City movement, he edited three magazines ("Everyman", "New Britain", and "Theatregoer") and wrote twenty-one books, many of which were about Garden Cities and most of the remainder about Shakespeare and the theatre, notably a biography of Harley Granville Barker (1955) and "A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw" (1963). Also known as the author of "The Perfect Master" (1937), which was the first biography of Meher Baba. Purdom is himself the subject of a biography, "Divine Drama", by Bob Mossman.
Author and editor. Associated with Ebenezer Howard, and Finance Director of the Garden City movement, he edited three magazines ("Everyman", "New Britain", and "Theatregoer") and wrote twenty-one books, many of which were about Garden Cities and most of the remainder about Shakespeare and the theatre, notably a biography of Harley Granville Barker (1955) and "A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw" (1963). Also known as the author of "The Perfect Master" (1937), which was the first biography of Meher Baba. Purdom is himself the subject of a biography, "Divine Drama", by Bob Mossman.
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To the dear memory of
Charles Benjamin Purdom
who died 8th. July 1965
aged 81 years
"Rest in peace"
and Lilian Antonia Purdom
who died 8th. February 1971
aged 83 years
"Re-united"
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