Robert Dellar

Robert Dellar (16 December 1964 – 17 December 2016)[1] was a British activist, musician and poet who was one of the founders of the Mad Pride movement. [2][3][4]

Dellar grew up in Garston, Hertfordshire[5], attending Watford Grammar School for Boys.[6].

In the mid 1980s Dellar moved to Brighton to study at Sussex University, also publishing the fanzine Straight Up.[7] He then moved to London, where he would live for the rest of his life.[1] 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.[8] He was appointed as a development worker at Southwark Mind in 1997.[2]

Dellar died of a pulmonary embolism one day after his fifty-second birthday, with a post mortem revealing he also had pancreatic cancer.[9][2] He wrote several books, and a biography was published posthumously.[10]

Publications

  • Gobbing, Pogoing and Gratuitous Bad Language!: An Anthology of Punk Short Stories (editor) Spare Change Books (1998) ISBN 0952574454
  • Seaton Point Robert Dellar and others, Spare Change Books (1998) ISBN 0952574411
  • Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture (Edited by Robert Dellar with Ted Curtis and Esther Leslie), Spare Change Books (2003) ISBN 095257442X
  • Splitting in Two: Mad Pride and Punk Rock Oblivion Unkant Publishers (2014) ISBN 0992650909
  • Kiss Of Life: Remembering Robert Dellar (ed. Lawrence Burton) Ce Acatl Publishing (2017)

References

  1. ^ a b Hunt, Ruth. "Tribute to Robert Dellar (1964 - 2016)". National Survivor User Network. Retrieved 3 December 2017. In a typically low-key style, Robert posted on Facebook on December 15 that he had to go into hospital and that it was the day before his birthday. [...] On December 17 Robert died suddenly from a pulmonary embolism.
  2. ^ a b c McKenna, Denise (7 January 2017). "Obituary: Robert Dellar". Mental Health Resistance Network. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  3. ^ Hervey, Nick (June 2009). "The bigger picture". Mental Health Today: 23.
  4. ^ Abraham, Amelia. "Remembering Mad Pride, The Movement That Celebrated Mental Illness". vice.com. Vice Media. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
  5. ^ Monk, Claire (2017). Growing Up In Garston in Kiss of Life: Remebering Robert Dellar (1 ed.). Ce Acatl Publishing. pp. 181–184.
  6. ^ Hayes, Steve (2017). Bop Til You Drop in Kiss of Life: Remembering Robert Dellar (1 ed.). Ce Acatl Publishing. pp. 95–105.
  7. ^ Dines, Mike (2016). "A eulogy to Robert Dellar: Mike Dines in conversation with Ted Curtis". Punk & Post-Punk. 5 (3): 349–352. doi:10.1386/punk.5.3.349_7. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
  8. ^ Conway, Terry. "I had my 21st birthday in a psychiatric hospital". National Survivor User Network. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
  9. ^ "Activists mourn Robert Dellar, co-founder of Mad Pride and a 'tenacious force for good'". Disability News Service. 22 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  10. ^ Burton, Lawrence; Pearson, Shirley (2017). Kiss of Life - Remembering Robert Dellar. Ce Acatl.


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