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'''Nicholas Guildford''' (born in [[1937]]) was a member of the [[Notion Club]].
'''Nicholas Guildford''' (born in [[1937]]) was a member of the [[Notion Club]].


== History ==
== History ==
Guildford was an archaeologist and the Club reporter. He was seldom recorded as reading anything to the Club, and it was then not reported; but he appears to have written several novels.<ref name="Foreword">{{SD|2b}}</ref>
Nicholas Guildford was an archaeologist and the Club reporter who got an education at Lincoln College. He was seldom recorded as reading anything to the Club, and it was then not reported; but he appears to have written several novels.<ref name="Foreword">{{SD|2b}}</ref>


In one of the meetings, after [[Michael George Ramer|Ramer]] had finished reading his story, Guildford criticized it for not having a convincing method of transportation across the space, deeming it highly unlikely or even impossible for humans to ever (in flesh) get to another planet.<ref>{{SD|2c}}, "Night 60"</ref>
In one of the meetings, after [[Michael George Ramer]] had finished reading his story, Guildford criticized it for not having a convincing method of transportation across the space, deeming it highly unlikely or even impossible for humans to ever (in flesh) get to another planet.<ref>{{SD|2c}}, "Night 60"</ref>


When [[Alwin Arundel Lowdham|Lowdham]] and [[Wilfrid Trewin Jeremy|Jeremy]] went on a journey after the ''Night 67'', during which a [[wikipedia:Great Storm of 1987|great storm]] hit [[wikipedia:England|England]], and in which Lowdham and Jeremy seemed to have received a vision of a sort of the [[Downfall of Númenor]]<ref>{{SD|2d}}, "Night 67"</ref>, he was the one who received a letter from the two, stating they were still "researching" and that "more stuff may come through".<ref>{{SD|2d}}, "Night 68"</ref>
When [[Alwin Arundel Lowdham]] and [[Wilfrid Trewin Jeremy]] went on a journey after the ''Night 67'', during which a [[wikipedia:Great Storm of 1987|great storm]] hit [[wikipedia:England|England]], and in which Lowdham and Jeremy seemed to have received a vision of a sort of the [[Downfall of Númenor]]<ref>{{SD|2d}}, "Night 67"</ref>, he was the one who received a letter from the two, stating they were still "researching" and that "more stuff may come through".<ref>{{SD|2d}}, "Night 68"</ref>


== Inspiration ==
== Inspiration ==
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Nicholas Guildford
Englishman
Afalstein - Notion Club Papers - Guildford.png
"Notion Club Papers - Guildford" by Afalstein
Biographical Information
PositionArchaeologist
Club reporter
AffiliationThe Notion Club
LanguageEnglish
Birth1937
Physical Description
GenderMale
GalleryImages of Nicholas Guildford

Nicholas Guildford (born in 1937) was a member of the Notion Club.

History[edit | edit source]

Nicholas Guildford was an archaeologist and the Club reporter who got an education at Lincoln College. He was seldom recorded as reading anything to the Club, and it was then not reported; but he appears to have written several novels.[1]

In one of the meetings, after Michael George Ramer had finished reading his story, Guildford criticized it for not having a convincing method of transportation across the space, deeming it highly unlikely or even impossible for humans to ever (in flesh) get to another planet.[2]

When Alwin Arundel Lowdham and Wilfrid Trewin Jeremy went on a journey after the Night 67, during which a great storm hit England, and in which Lowdham and Jeremy seemed to have received a vision of a sort of the Downfall of Númenor[3], he was the one who received a letter from the two, stating they were still "researching" and that "more stuff may come through".[4]

Inspiration[edit | edit source]

It had been shown to the editor of the Notion Club Papers, Mr. Howard Green, by a historian J.R. Titmass, that the name of Nicholas Guildford was derived from an old medieval text titled The Owl and the Nightingale and that it was a pseudonym.[1]

References

Members of the Notion Club
Michael George Ramer · Rupert Dolbear · Nicholas Guildford · Alwin Arundel Lowdham · Philip Frankley · Wilfrid Trewin Jeremy
James Jones · Abel Pitt · Colombo Arditi · Jonathan Markison · Gerard Manface · Ranulph Stainer · Alexander Cameron · John Jethro Rashbold