Background
Thomas Weldon was born at 3 Bryanston Mansions, York Street, Marylebone, London, in 1896.
Thomas Weldon was born at 3 Bryanston Mansions, York Street, Marylebone, London, in 1896.
Magdalen College.
He finally went up to Oxford in 1919, graduating with a first class degree in 1921. Weldon was elected a fellow and philosophy tutor at his college two years later, getting to know CS Lewis (Lewis described Weldon as quick to anger and cynical). He then served as Rhodes travelling fellow in 1930, a temporary civil servant in London from 1939 to 1942, and Personal Staff Officer to Arthur Harris in Royal Air Force Bomber Command at High Wycombe from 1942 to 1945.
His final duties during World World War II involved justifying Harris"s controversial bombing strategy to politicians and the public.
His death in 1958 was attributed by college rumour to suicide but was in fact due to a cerebral hemorrhage.
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