Marcus Williamson is a British writer, journalist and campaigner. As an obituarist for ''

The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...

'' he has written

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of more than 300 subjects, including artists, poets, actors and inventors.

Campaigns

Phorm

In 2009 the AIM-listed (since delisted and failed) spyware company

Phorm Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, was a digital technology company known for its contextual advertising software. Phorm was incorporated in Delaware, United States, but relocated to Singapore as Phorm Corporation (Singapore) Ltd in 2012. Founde ...

created a website Stopphoulplay.com to attack Williamson and fellow campaigner

Alexander Hanff Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

. The company accused Williamson of '...waging a "serial letter writing" campaign to Phorm's potential customers and partners in attempt to discredit the company and Mr Ertugrul.' The site was soon taken down and later described as a "PR disaster".

CEOemail.com

He is the editor of the consumer information website CEOemail.com, which provides the email addresses of many company CEOs. The website operates on donations from consumers, or a fee for business users for each email address provided.

Bibliography

* ''The True Celtic Language and the Stone Circle of Rennes les Bains''. 2008. . Translation of an 1886 work by

Henri Boudet L'abbé Jean-Jacques-Henri Boudet (16 November 1837 – 30 March 1915), is best known for being the French Catholic parish priest of Rennes-les-Bains between 1872 and 1914 and for being the author of the book ''La Vraie langue celtique et le ...

. * ''Claude Cahun at School in England''. Self-published, 2011 * ''Path''. Atelier St Louis Production, 2011. With Jonathan Moss. * ''Rene Halkett: From Bauhaus to Cornwall'' - Catalogue of exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery, 2019 * ''The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism'' (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019) - Biographical articles on

Raymond Roussel Raymond Roussel (; 20 January 1877 – 14 July 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French litera ...

Sarane Alexandrian Sarane Alexandrian (15 June 1927, Baghdad – 11 September 2009, Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher, essayist, and art critic. Early life Alexandrian was born to a French mother and Armenian father, Vartan Alexandrian, a stomatologist ...

Ithell Colquhoun Ithell Colquhoun ( 9 October 1906 – 11 April 1988) was a British painter, occultist, poet and author. Stylistically her artwork was affiliated with surrealism. In the late 1930s, Colquhoun was part of the British Surrealist Group before ...

David Gascoyne David Gascoyne (10 October 1916 – 25 November 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement, in particular the British Surrealist Group. Additionally he translated work by French surrealist poets. Early life and surrealis ...

and

Isabelle Waldberg Isabelle Waldberg, ''née'' Isabelle Margaretha Maria Farner (1911–1990) was a French-Swiss sculptor associated with surrealism. Life Born in Oberstammheim, Switzerland Isabelle Farner studied under Hannes Meyer in Zurich before moving to Paris ...

References

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