Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Pretor-Pinney is son of Anthony Robert Edmund Pretor-Pinney and Laura Uppercu, daughter of George Winthrop Haight, of Manhattan, observer for the American Bar Association and a specialist in international law.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/14/obituaries/george-w-haight.html|title=George W. Haight|newspaper=The New York Times|date=14 August 1983}} The Pretor-Pinney family were landowners at Somerton, Somerset since the 1800s, descendants of the sugar merchant and Mayor of Bristol Charles Pinney; Anthony Pretor-Pinney had Somerton Erleigh, named for the family's former house on a different part of the estate, built in 1972–3.{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1406542|title=Somerton Erleigh, Somerton - 1406542 | Historic England}}A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, seventh edition, vol. II, Sir Bernard Burke, Harrison and Sons, 1886, p. 1467

Pretor-Pinney attended Westminster School, the University of Oxford, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

He co-founded the magazine The Idler and founded the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2004.{{Cite news|url=https://blog.ted.com/the-joy-of-cloudspotting-10-incredible-visions-in-clouds/|title=The joy of cloudspotting: 10 incredible visions in clouds|date=2013-07-16|work=TED Blog|access-date=2018-10-07|language=en-US}} He grew up in West London and now also lives in Somerton, Somerset.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

• 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, winner, The Wavewatcher's Companion[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/expert-in-idleness-is-surprise-winner-of-science-book-prize-6264095.html "Expert in idleness is surprise winner of science book prize"], The Independent, 18 November 2011

• The Cloudspotter's Guide (2006)
• The Cloud Collector's Handbook (2006)
• A Pig with Six Legs and Other Clouds (2007)
• The Wavewatcher's Companion (2010){{cite web |url=http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/wavewatchers-companion/ |title=The Wavewatcher's Companion |access-date=6 February 2011 |archive-date=10 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910021721/https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/wavewatchers-companion/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7814714/The-Wavewatchers-Companion-by-Gavin-Pretor-Pinney-review.html |title=Daily Telegraph review | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph |date=13 June 2010}}
• The Ukulele Handbook (September 2013; co-written with Tom Hodgkinson)
• A Cloud A Day (2019)

• Presented on BBC TV: Cloudspotting{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k99th |title=Cloudspotting |publisher=BBC}}
• Appeared on BBC TV: The Secret Life of Waves{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y5jhx |title=The Secret Life of Waves |publisher=BBC}}

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• [http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/ Cloud Appreciation Society]
• [http://idler.co.uk/ The Idler magazine]

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