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Proctor, Henry

(?   -?   ) UK author of Perpetual Youth: An Occult and Historical Romance (1913), whose protagonist, five hundred years before the early twentieth setting of the main action, gains Immortality after drinking blood; in the intervening centuries, now clairvoyant and able to make himself invisible (see Invisibility), he has become a Secret Master figure whose plans for world Utopia demonstrate his benevolence, though he clearly never intends to abandon his central role. [JC]

Henry Proctor

born

works

• Perpetual Youth: An Occult and Historical Romance (London: L N Fowler and Company, 1913) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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