Francis Clive-Ross

Francis Fabian Clive-Ross (1921–1981) was a British publisher and author whose works focused on occultism, comparative religion, and the Traditionalist School. Clive-Ross was also a Trustee of the World of Islam Festival (held in London in 1976), as well as a justice of the peace.

Publishing Clive-Ross was the proprietor for many years of the Aquarian Book Service, established at Pates Manor. He relinquished his interest in Aquarian Press around 1966. Soon after the London Spiritualist Alliance was reorganized as the College of Psychic Science in 1955, Clive-Ross became editor of the long-established Spiritualist journal Light. Under his editorship, the journal expanded its scope to include articles on occultism, comparative religion, and parapsychology, some of them highly critical and skeptical. Readers demanded that the journal revert to its former role as a Spiritualist publication. Clive-Ross pointed out that he had accepted editorship on the condition that Light be an independent journal. Subsequently, he resigned and Dr. V. F. Underwood took over.

Clive-Ross formed Perennial Books to specialize in metaphysics, philosophy, and religion. He retained a critical faculty in dealing with occult subjects, believing that there is a good deal of fraud or self-deception in Spiritualism and psychical research.

Books Studies in Comparative Religion: 1967 Commemorative Annual Edition (World Wisdom, 2007) Studies in Comparative Religion: 1968 Commemorative Annual Edition (World Wisdom, 2007) The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, East Bedfont (British Publishing, 1970)