Charles Hadfield

Charles Hadfield may refer to:

Charles Hadfield (historian)

Ellis Charles Raymond Hadfield (5 August 1909 – 6 August 1996) was a canal historian and the author of many classic works on the British canal system, mostly published by the firm he co-founded, David & Charles.

Biography

Charles Hadfield was born in South Africa, moved to Devon, England in 1924 and was educated at Blundell's School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1936 he joined the Oxford University Press. He was invited to the home of the theatre critic and author Robert Aickman in May 1946, as were the author L Tom C Rolt and four others, the outcome of which was the formation of the Inland Waterways Association (IWA), a pressure group for the preservation and restoration of the waterways, with Aickman as chairman, Hadfield as vice-chairman and Rolt as secretary. In 1950 books about the waterways started to appear, to inform the public about their plight, with Rolt producing The Inland Waterways of England, Aickman producing Know your Waterways, and Hadfield producing Introducing Canals. Later the same year, his book British Canals appeared, which ultimately was expanded into a comprehensive series of books about canals throughout Great Britain.

Charles Hadfield (journalist)

Charles Hadfield (1821–1884) was a journalist.

Hadfield, the son of Charles and Anne Hadfield, was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, 14 October 1821, and being taken to Manchester when only one year old, was brought up to the trade of a house-painter and decorator, becoming specially skilled in graining, and able to imitate the grain of the oak with great perfection. At an early age he wrote verses in the Manchester Times, and his tastes soon led him to adopt literature as a profession. In 1861 he edited a monthly paper in connection with trades unions, called Weekly Wages, of which only five numbers appeared. He then, in 1861, accepted an offer of Joseph Cowen, M.P., to join the staff of the Newcastle Chronicle, and to act as lecturing agent for the Northern Reform Union.