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'{{Refimprove|date=April 2007}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2012}} {{Use British English|date=October 2012}} '''Robert Chartham''' was the pseudonym of '''Ronald Sydney Seth''' (5 June 1911,<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8315784 HS 9/1344-1345], [[The National Archives]]</ref> [[England]] – 1 February 1985<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>), a British writer who used the name Chartham for his activity as a [[sexologist]] and the name Seth for travel books and books about espionage. As a child Seth was a chorister at [[Ely Cathedral]] and a King's Scholar at [[King's School, 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.</ref> Appointed Professor of Literature at the [[University of Tallinn]], Seth returned to London at the start of [[World War II]], joining the [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] and helping to start the [[Monitoring Intelligence Bureau]].<ref name=Obituary /> In 1941 he was commissioned into the [[RAF]] and in 1942 joined [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]].<ref name=Obituary /> Parachuted into [[Estonia]], he was captured by and later defected to the Germans. He was trained by the [[Sicherheitsdienst]] 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> Seth spent most of the rest of the war as a "stool pigeon" in [[Oflag 79]], but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message of peace by [[Himmler]], which he carried to London via Switzerland.<ref name=Obituary /> Chartham's career included teaching and counselling in [[Europe]]an 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''. In the 1970s Seth 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== '''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</ref> * Secret Servants, 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 * ''Secret Servants'', Before 1958 * ''The Spy and the Atom Gun: Introducing Captin Geoffrey Martel of the British Secret Service'', 1958 * ''For My Name's Sake'', 1958 * ''Two Fleets Surprised'', 1960 * ''Forty Years of Soviet Spying'', 1965 * ''Caporetto'', 1965 * ''Russell Pasha'', 1966 * ''The Russian Terrorists'', 1967 * ''The Executioners: The Story of SMERSH'', 1967 * ''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 ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{worldcat id|id=lccn-n80-32762|name=Ronald Seth}} * {{worldcat id|id=lccn-n50-36243|name=Robert Chartham}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chartham, Robert}} [[Category:1911 births]] [[Category:1985 deaths]] [[Category:University of Paris alumni]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:British sexologists]]'