John Fairbairn
English Go translator and knowledgeable historian. Vendor of the "Games of Go on disk" collections (Gogod). Author of Invitation to Go.
A short biography is to be found at http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/jf.html, and more information about his contributions to both Go and Shogi may be found on Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fairbairn
On April the 17th 1997 John Fairbairn started a thread on rec.games.go named The Big Game: http://gobase.org/studying/biggame/