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{{Short description|English sexologist, academic, and writer (1911–1985)}}
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'''Robert Chartham''' was the pseudonym of '''Ronald Sydney Seth''' (5 June 1911 – 1 February 1985),<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8315784 HS 9/1344-1345], [[The National Archives]]</ref><ref>"SETH.–On February 1st, after a too long illness, Ronald, alias Dr Robert Chartham, aged 73 years", 'Deaths', ''[[The Times]]'', 6 February 1985</ref> an English writer who used the surname Chartham for his activity as a [[sexologist]] and the surname Seth for books about travel and espionage.

As a child Seth was a chorister at [[Ely Cathedral]] and a King's Scholar at [[King's School, Ely|King's Ely]].<ref>Information about the author in ''Unmasked! The story of Soviet espionage''</ref> He was educated at [[Cambridge University]].<ref name=Obituary>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/newspaperRetrieve.do?scale=0.33&sort=DateAscend&docLevel=FASCIMILE&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&searchId=R2&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&currentPosition=1&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28tx%2CNone%2C8%29Obituary%3AAnd%3AFQE%3D%28da%2CNone%2C13%29%22Feb+5%2C+1985%22%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D%28MB%2CNone%2C8%29%22TTDA-1%22%24&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUMENT&fromPage=&inPS=true&userGroupName=qubelfast&pageNumber=&docId=CS17010757&currentPosition=1&workId=&relevancePageBatch=CS17010757&contentSet=LTO&callistoContentSet=UDVIN&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&reformatPage=N&docPage=page&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUMENT&dp=&searchTypeName=AdvancedSearchForm&scale=0.33&orientation=0&lastPageIndex=12&navigation=true&fromPage=&pageIndex=12&previousPage=page&searchTypeName=AdvancedSearchForm&browseByDate=enable Obituary], ''The Times'', 5 February 1985. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065315/http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/newspaperRetrieve.do?scale=0.33&sort=DateAscend&docLevel=FASCIMILE&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&searchId=R2&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&currentPosition=1&qrySerId=Locale(en,,):FQE%3D(tx,None,8)Obituary:And:FQE%3D(da,None,13)%22Feb+5,+1985%22:And:LQE%3D(MB,None,8)%22TTDA-1%22$&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUMENT&fromPage=&inPS=true&userGroupName=qubelfast&pageNumber=&docId=CS17010757&currentPosition=1&workId=&relevancePageBatch=CS17010757&contentSet=LTO&callistoContentSet=UDVIN&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&reformatPage=N&docPage=page&retrieveFormat=MULTIPAGE_DOCUMENT&dp=&searchTypeName=AdvancedSearchForm&scale=0.33&orientation=0&lastPageIndex=12&navigation=true&fromPage=&pageIndex=12&previousPage=page&searchTypeName=AdvancedSearchForm&browseByDate=enable |date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>

Appointed Professor of Literature at the [[University of Tallinn]], Estonia, Seth returned to London at the start of World War II, joining the [[BBC]] and helping to start the Monitoring Intelligence Bureau.<ref name=Obituary />{{dead link|date=April 2022}} In 1941 he was commissioned into the [[Royal Air Force]] and in 1942 joined the [[Special Operations Executive]].<ref name=Obituary />{{dead link|date=April 2022}} Parachuted into Estonia, he was captured by and later defected to the Germans. He was trained by the [[Sicherheitsdienst]] (the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] intelligence agency) as an agent for a mission to Britain.<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8095659&j=1 KV 2/377-380], [[The National Archives]]</ref> He spent most of the rest of the war as an informer in the [[Oflag 79]] prisoner-of-war camp, but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message of peace by [[Heinrich Himmler]] (head of the SS), which he carried to London via Switzerland.<ref name=Obituary />{{dead link|date=April 2022}}

Seth's career included teaching and counselling in European universities, lecturing to British university students on "How to Enjoy Sex" and serving as a counsellor in his own London clinic.

He was an editorial consultant to ''Forum: The International Journal of Human Relations''.

During the 1970s, he lived in Malta with his second wife, Barbara McAdam Seth.<ref>'Presentation of paintings to ''Din l-Art Óelwa''<nowiki>'</nowiki>, [http://www.dinlarthelwa.org/images/Vigilo/Vigilo31.pdf ''Vigilo'' 31], April 2007</ref>

==Works==
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'''as Ronald Seth''':
* ''Baltic Corner: Travel in Estonia'', 1939
* ''A Spy Has No Friends'', 1952. Republished 2008 by Barbara Seth, Seth's second wife.<ref>[http://www.kentishexpress.co.uk/paper/default.asp?article_id=31134 'War hero lived to tell tale after gallows failure'], ''[[Kentish Express]]'', 16 October 2008 {{dead link|date=April 2022}}</ref>
* ''Secret Servants, a History of Japanese Espionage'', 1957
* ''Operation Retriever'', Before 1958
* ''Operation Lama'', Before 1958
* ''The True Book about the Secret Service'', Before 1958
* ''Operation Ormer'', Before 1958
* ''How Spies Work'', Before 1958
* ''The Spy and the Atom Gun: Introducing Captain Geoffrey Martel of the British Secret Service'', 1958
* ''For My Name's Sake'', 1958
* ''Stalingrad: Point of Return. The Story of the Battle, August 1942-February 1943'', London: Gollancz, 1959
* ''Two Fleets Surprised'', 1960
* ''Anatomy of Spying'', 1963
* ''Forty Years of Soviet Spying'', 1965
* ''Caporetto'', 1965
* ''Russell Pasha'', 1966
* ''The Russian Terrorists'', 1967
* ''The Executioners: The Story of SMERSH'', 1967
* ''The Sleeping Truth: The [[Alger Hiss|Hiss]]-[[Whittaker Chambers|Chambers]] Affair: the Spy Case that Split a Nation'', 1968
* ''Spies: Their Trade and Their Tricks'', 1969
* ''Encyclopedia of Espionage'', 1972
* ''Jackals of the Reich'', 1972

'''as Dr. Robert Chartham''':
* ''Mainly for Wives'', 1963
* ''Sex Manners for Advanced Lovers'', 1969
* ''The Sensuous Couple'', 1971
* ''Your Sexual Future'', 1973

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[[Category:University of Paris alumni]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]]
[[Category:British sexologists]]
[[Category:British expatriates in France]]
[[Category:People educated at King's Ely]]

Robert Chartham - Revision history

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