In Memoriam: Ron Hess (1949-2019)

W. Ron Hess, a prolific Oxfordian researcher and author, died during the weekend of May 18-20, 2019. This video pays tribute to Ron’s tireless research and unflagging devotion to the authorship question and the Oxfordian theory.

Hess was a retired civil servant with an MS in Computer Sciences. He taught IT Security at various night schools in the Washington, D.C. area, including an extension center of Johns Hopkins University Graduate School. He became an Oxfordian in 1991 after attending the 1987 Moot Court debate (Oxford vs. Shakspere) at American University. Ron published numerous articles in Oxfordian and other journals, as well as his two-volume trilogy The Dark Side of Shakespeare (2002 and 2003).

This talk was presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference in Hartford, CT on October 18, 2019.

Jan Scheffer was trained as a psychiatrist and neurologist at the University of Utrecht and subsequently as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst (Freudian, Lacanian). He worked for twenty-five years in forensic psychiatry and held various offices in the psychoanalytical community. Having been introduced to Ogburn’s Mysterious William Shakespeare in 1994, he joined the DeVere Society and in 2004-2007 organized four Authorship conferences in the Netherlands. He spoke at the 2015 SOF Annual Conference in Ashland, Oregon, on Oxford Captured by (Dutch) Pirates, and collaborated with Ron Hess on papers presented at the SOF Annual Conferences in 2016 (Boston), in 2017 (Chicago) on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Platonism, and Desportes, and in 2018 (Oakland) on Commedia Erudita and Sinister Politics in 1575. This year he and Ron would have presented on a joust in which Oxford wielded his lance as well as his pen. Jan lives with his family in Utrecht where he has a psychoanalytical practice.

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