Robert Dellar


Robert Dellar was a British activist, musician and poet who was one of the founders of the Mad Pride movement.
Dellar grew up in Garston, Hertfordshire, attending Watford Grammar School for Boys..
In the mid 1980s Dellar moved to Brighton to study at Sussex University, also publishing the fanzine Straight Up. He then moved to London, where he would live for the rest of his life. He founded Spare Change Books, an independent publisher, in 1995.
Dellar worked for the mental health charity Mind, initially at Hackney & City Mind in the early 1990s. He also founded Hackney Patients Council in 1994. He was appointed as a development worker at Southwark Mind in 1997.
Dellar died of a pulmonary embolism one day after his fifty-second birthday, with a post mortem revealing he also had pancreatic cancer. He wrote several books, and a biography was published posthumously.

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