Education
He was educated at Cambridge University.
He was educated at Cambridge University.
As a child Seth was a chorister at Ely Cathedral and a King"s Scholar at King"s School, Ely. Appointed Professor of Literature at the University of Tallinn, Seth returned to London at the start of World World War II, joining the British Broadcasting Corporation and helping to start the Monitoring Intelligence Bureau. In 1941 he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force and in 1942 joined SOE. Parachuted into Estonia, he was captured by the Germans and trained by the Sicherheitsdienst as an agent for a mission to Britain.
Seth spent most of the rest of the war as a "stool pigeon" in Oflag 79, but in April 1945 was entrusted with a message of peace by Himmler, which he carried to London via Switzerland.
Chartham"s career included teaching and counselling in European universities, lecturing to British university students on "How to Enjoy Sex" and serving as a counsellor in his own London clinic. He was an editorial consultant to Forum: The International Journal of Human Relations.