Rodney Dale
| Rodney A.M. Dale | |
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| Born | 28 November 1933 Muswell Hill, London |
| Occupation | Author, editor, publisher |
| Nationality | English |
| Subject | Non-fiction topics (biography, technology, computing, jazz, illustration, and folklore); fiction |
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| fernhouse.com | |
Rodney A.M. Dale (born 1933) is an English author, editor, publisher, and a co-founder and former member of Cambridge Consultants Ltd. He has also written principally on non-fiction topics (biography, technology, computing, jazz, illustration, and folklore), as well as three novels, a number of poems, and pantomimes.
Dale was born in Muswell Hill (North London) to Donald and Celia Dale in 1933. In 1939, with the approach of war, the family left London for Cambridge, where Dale was to develop lifelong interests in writing, engineering, printing, publishing, and music. He attended The Perse School from 1940 to 1952. In 1953 Dale began a two-year term of National Service, first joining the Suffolk Regiment and later transferring to the Royal Army Education Corps, where he served as a sergeant instructor both in Shorncliffe, Kent, and Münster, Westphalia (BAOR12), Germany. Having earlier (1950) been awarded a scholarship to the University of Cambridge, he attended Queens' College in the fall of 1955 and studied natural sciences. In 1959 he established Polyhedron Services, a design and print company, which he developed for four years.
It was at the University of Cambridge that Dale had met Tim Eiloart and David Southward, then fellow students and with whom he would later establish Cambridge Consultants Ltd., the first independent research and development organisation in the United Kingdom. In 1963 he joined Cambridge Consultants full-time, heading several design projects before ultimately assuming the role of the organisation's personnel and training manager. His 1979 book From Ram Yard to Milton Hilton (updated in 1981 to mark the move of the company from Bar Hill to the Cambridge Science Park) chronicles the organisation's background, founding, and first two decades; his 2010 revision, From Ram Yard to Milton Hilton: Cambridge Consultants – The Early Years, was published upon the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Cambridge Consultants.
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