Pardoe, Geoffrey, 1890-1953

found: The trials of Hank Janson, 2004:p. 80 (b. Richard Geoffrey Pardoe in 1890; grew up in Hanley, Staffordshire; attended Birmingham University, where he collaborated on a short book of poetry, Vacation verses by Two Undergrads (the other being Thomas A. Baggs); lived in Hastings and London; also wrote This is a mystery and a social study of the declining birth rate entitled The baby famine) pp. 303-321 (the appendices list the Hank Janson novels: written mainly by Stephen D. Francis (some with Geoffrey Pardoe), others written by Harry Hobson, Harold Kelly, Victor Norwood, Jim Moffatt, Colin Fraser)

found: Bancroft Library WWW site, 1 Aug., 2014:Golden Gate mysteries (Ace Capelli (pseud.); real name: Stephen Daniel Frances, Jr.; other pseuds.: Hank Janson, Johnny Grecco, Steve Markham, Tex Ryland, Duke Linton, Link Shelton, Max Clinton, Astron Del Martia, and others; at least 2 other writers are known to have used the “Ace Capelli” pseudonym [Geoffrey Pardoe and Norman Lazenby) - http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/sfmystery/extras/biographies.html

found: Ash Rare Books WWW site, 1 Aug., 2014("Janson, Hank" - [Frances, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] - Persian pride; may have been written in whole or in part by the editor, Geoffrey Pardoe, who had died in May 1953) - http://www.ashrare.com/hank_janson.html

found: Halkett and Laing, 1932:v. 6, p. 155 (Vacation verses by two undergraduates [T.A. Bagge [i.e. Baggs] and G.R. Pardoe])