Geoffrey Faber

Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet. He was a nephew of the noted Catholic convert and hymn writer, Father Frederick William Faber, C.O., founder of the Brompton Oratory.

Life

Faber was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford.Pine, L. G., ed., The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 4th ed., 1960, p. 125 He gained a first in Classical Moderations in 1910 and a first in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1912.Oxford University Calendar 1914, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1914, pp. 198, 210 In 1913 he joined the Oxford University Press.

A fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he was the founding editor of Faber and Gwyer (shortly afterwards Faber and Faber), one of the most celebrated of literary publishing houses.{{cn|date=January 2023}}

He was knighted in the 1954 New Years Honours List.UK list: {{London Gazette |issue=40053 |date=29 December 1953 |pages=2 |supp=y}}

His grave is located in the churchyard of St. James's Church, Stedham, West Sussex.{{Cn|date=March 2024}}

Works

[https://archive.org/details/interflowpoemsc00fabegoog Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical] (1915)
In the Valley of Vision: Poems Written in Time of War (1918)
Elnovia, An Entertainment for Novel Readers (1925)
Oxford Apostles. A Character Study of the Oxford Movement (1933)
A Publisher Speaking (1935)
The Buried Stream: Collected Poems 1908–1940 (1941)
[https://archive.org/details/principlesscien00jevogoog Benjamin Jowett : A Portrait with Background] (1957)
Twelve Years (1962), a poem
Modern First Editions: Points and Values