St George RathborneBashford was the Post Office's Chief Medical Officer from 1933 to 1943, and then the Treasury Medical Adviser from 1943 to 1945. He served as King George VI's Honorary Physician from 1941 to 1944 and was the late Honorary President of the Post OfficeAmbulance Centre and the St. John Ambulance Association. On June 9, 1938, he was appointed knight-bachelor of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, as proclaimed in the King's birthday honors. Rathborne was born in Covington, Kentucky, to Gorges Lowther Rathborne and Margaret H. Robertson Rathborne. He attended Woodward High School in Cincinnati, which is the oldest public high school in the United States. He married Jessie Fremont Conn in 1879 and they had four children. Rathborne spent most of his adult life in northern New Jersey. Over the course of four decades, Rathborne worked for a variety of dime novel publishers, but he was most closely identified with Street & Smith, where he spent 20 years as a novelist and editor. After 1910, he wrote virtually entirely in the juvenile series book type. He frequently published under pseudonyms, and these works made up the majority of his literary output. His pseudonyms are many and poorly documented, with several still unidentified. He most likely utilized at least 30 distinct pen names during his career as a dime writer, and more than 20 more during his years of authoring series books. Poor documentation of his pseudonyms makes it impossible to attribute his works at times, and the full scope of his published publications may never be discovered. Read More Read Less