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John Davys Beresford (17 March 1873 – 2 February 1947) was an English writer, now remembered mainly for his early science fiction and some short stories of the horror story and ghost story genres. Beresford was a great admirer of H. G. Wells, and wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915. His Wellsian novel The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911) was a major influence for the author Olaf Stapledon. His other science-fiction novels include The Riddle of the Tower, about a dystopian, hive-like society.
Life
His father, John James Beresford (1821 – 1897), was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Rector of Castor. His mother was Adelaide Elizabeth Morgan. J. D. Beresford was affected by infantile paralysis, which left him partially disabled. He was educated at Oundle.
After training to become an architect, he became a professional writer, first as a dramatist, and journalist. During early adulthood, he rejected his father's theism and became a "determined but defensive" agnostic. In 1903 Beresford read the book Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by the psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers, which Beresford later stated had an enormous influence on his thought. He combined a life in Edwardian literary London with time spent in the provinces, in particular Cornwall, where D. H. Lawrence had an extended stay in his Porthcothan cottage. During the period around the First World War Beresford befriended several British writers, including Dorothy Richardson, Walter de la Mare, Naomi Royde-Smith and May Sinclair. Later in life Beresford abandoned his earlier agnosticism and described himself as a Theosophist and a pacifist.
