Philip John Stead

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Philip John Stead OBE, FRSL (5 February 1915 – 22 June 2005) was an English criminologist, author, literary critic, translator and poet. He was born in Swinton, West Yorkshire, and studied at Oxford University. He moved to London and joined The Critics' Circle. During World War II he served in the British Army in North Africa, Italy, France, Belgium and Germany, leaving the service as a captain in 1946. In 1947 he married Judith Irene Freeder and lived in Kensington. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950 and joined the National Police College at Bramshill House in 1953. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. In 1971 he took a sabbatical to teach at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. After retiring from Bramshill in 1974, he returned to John Jay College as professor of police studies and dean of graduate studies. He moved to Manhattan with his wife and worked with the police section of the UN Convention on the Prevention of Crime. He retired in 1982 and moved to Hyannis, Massachusetts, then South Yarmouth, where he wrote poetry and did amateur dramatics. He died on 22 June 2005, aged 89.