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

  1. ↑ "John Kennedy Melling obituary". The Times. 4 December 2018. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "Hitchcock's man in Essex". Echo.


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