The Death Guard
 The Death Guard is the only published novel of the English author Philip George Chadwick (b Batley Yorkshire: 1893 d Brighton Sussex: 1955). Although the author is virtually unknown to the wider public his work has received attention from literary scholars. The novel contains many themes later developed by L Ron Hubbard and James Blish. Chadwick was a political thinker with socialist tendencies a Fabian and subsequently an Independent and a disciple of H.G. Wells.Legend has it that H.G.