Editor's Note: Frank Westwood passed away in 2013.   In his memory, Rod Jackson has made early issues of Frank's popular ERB fanzine -- The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, available for fans. Our tribute to Frank is featured at ERBzine 4538. Rod Jackson's contribution to that Webpage is an excerpt from that tribute.

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Rod Jackson Remembers For over forty years Frank Westwood's was the name that came to mind when any reference to Burroughs fandom in the UK was made. He was equally well known on the other side of the Atlantic through his editorship of The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the various vacations and convention attendances in the USA that he and Doreen made in the 1980s and 90s.

I first met Frank in 1969, through the medium of Gordon Landsborough of Four Square Books, who asked if I would like to be put in touch with a fellow Burroughs fan. Frank impressed me straightaway with his knowledge of the author and his book collection, and six years later we helped to found the British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society. From the ninth issue of the Society’s Journal Frank took up the editorship and attracted a worldwide subscription, presenting the readership with articles, artwork and correspondence that had a uniquely British slant on all aspects of ERB. In 1988 and 1997 he and Doreen organised two memorable conventions, based in both London and the very special venue of Greystoke in Cumbria.

When I first knew him Frank was working on a comprehensive survey of the Barsoomian series, which he had titled The Martian Manuscripts of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a work which sadly was not fully completed when he passed away. (Laurence Dunn hopes to put the finishing touches to this work and have it published at some future date).

Frank was admired by all who knew him for his friendship, generous and sympathetic nature, and for his boundless and infectious enthusiasm for ERB. We will all miss him so much.

~ Rod Jackson
Co-founder of the British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society