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Frank Richards

Male : Children's writer. Creator of Billy Bunter
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Ealing, Middlesex

Date of Birth : 1876 Date of Death : 1961 Age : 85

Pseudonyms : Real Name = Charles Harold St John Hamilton. Hilda Richards. Martin Clifford. Owen Conquest
As Frank Richards - non-Bunter
Publ by Merrett
(all 1946)
The Secret of the School
The Black Sheep of Sparshott
First Man in
Looking after Lamb
The Hero of Sparshott
Pluck Will Tell

Mainly Matthew
(1947)
Top Study at Topham
Bunny Binks on the Warpath
The Dandy of Topham
Sent to Coventry
Jack of all Trades
(1950 Mandeville)
The Lone Texan
(1954 Atlantic)

AS HILDA RICHARDS
Publ by Merrett
(1946)
Winifred on the Warpath
The Girls of Headland House
Under Becky's Thumb

Publ by Matthew
(1947)
Pamela at St Olive's
The Stranded Schoolgirls
The Jape of the Term
Bessie Bunter of Cliff House School
(1949 Skilton) - R J Macdonald

As MARTIN CLIFFORD
(Publ by Mandeville)
"The Wandering Schoolboy"
(In) The Holiday Annual for Boys and Girls" (1920 Amalgamated Press)
The Secret of the Study
(1949)
Tom Merry and Co of St Jim's
(1949)
Rallying Round Gussie
(1950)
The Scapegrace of St Jim's
(1951)
Talbot's Secret
(1951)

Publ by Hamilton
(all 1952)
Tom Merry's Secret
Tom Merry's Rival
The Man from the Past
Who Ragged Railton ?
Skimpole's Snapshot
Trouble for Trimble
D'Arcy in Danger
D'Arcy on the Warpath
D'Arcy's Disappearance
D'Arcy the Reformer
D'Arcy's Day off
A Strange Secret
(1968 Old Boys' Book Club)

BILLY BUNTER by FRANK RICHARDS
[These stories were first published in the "Magnet" from 1908 onwards]
"Ructions at Greyfriars : A Complete Story of School Life and Adventure"
(In) The Holiday Annual for Boys and Girls" (1920 Amalgamated Press)
"Fighting for His Honour"
(In) The Holiday Annual for Boys and Girls" (1920 Amalgamated Press)
All Skilton
illus by R J Macdonald
BB of Greyfriars School
(1947)
BB's Barring-out
(1948)
BB's Banknote
(1948)
BB in Brazil
(1949)
BB's Christmas Party
(1949)
BB Among the Cannibals
(1950)
BB's Benefit
(1950)
BB Butts In
(1951)
BB's Postal Order
(1951)
BB and the Blue Mauritius
(1952)

As Owen Conquest
"Rivals of Rookwood School : A Complete Story of School Life and Adventure"
(In) The Holiday Annual for Boys and Girls" (1920 Amalgamated Press)

All Cassell
BB's Beanfeast
(1952)
BB's Brain-wave
(1953)
BB's First Case
(1953)
BB the Bold
(1954)
Bunter Does His Best
(1954)
Backing up BB
(1955) - C H Chapman
BB's Double
(1955)
The Banishing of BB
(1956) - All C H Chapman from here on
Lord BB
(1956)
BB Afloat
(1957)
BB's Bolt
(1957)
BB the Hiker
(1958)
BB's Bargain
(1958)
Bunter Comes fro Christmas
(1959)
Bunter Out of Bounds
(1959)
Bunter Keeps it Dark
(1960)
Bunter the Bad Lad
(1960)
BB at Butlin's
(1961)
BB's Treasure Hunt
(1961)
Bunter the Ventriloquist
(1961)
BB's Bodyguard
(1962)
Bunter the Caravanner
(1962)
Just Like Bunter
(1963)
Big Chief Bunter
(1963)
Bunter the Stowaway
(1964)
Thanks to Bunter
(1964)
Bunter and the Phantom of the Towers
(1965 Armada)
Bunter the Racketeer
(1965 Armada)
Bunter the Sportsman
(1965)
Bunter the Tough Guy of Greyfriars
(1965 Armada)
Bunter's Holiday Cruise
(1965 Armada)
Bunter's Last Fling
(1965)

BILLY BUNTER by FRANK RICHARDS
All Hamlyn
(All un-illustrated)
BB and the Man from South America
(1967)
BB and the School Rebellion
(1967)
BB and the Secret Enemy
(1967)
BB's Big Top
(1967)
BB and the Bank Robber
(1968)
BB, Sportsman
(1968)
BB and the Crooked Captain
(1968)
BB's Convict
(1968)

READING
The Autobiography of Frank Richards
(1952 Skilton)
Charles Henry Chapman : The Billy Bunter Picture Book
(1967 Charles Hamilton Museum, Maidstone)
The World of Frank Richards by W O G Lofts & Derek J Adley
(1975 Baker)
Mary Cadogan : Frank Richards - The Chap Behind the Chums
(1988 Viking)

See also

Victor Gyozo Lazlo Ambrus
Robert Von Ranke Graves