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
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) was a noted English hymnwriter and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1845. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood subsequently in 1847. His best-known work is the hymn ...
,
C.O., founder of the
Brompton Oratory
Brompton Oratory is a large neo-classical Roman Catholic church in the Knightsbridge area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. Its full name is the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, or as named in its Grade II* archite ...
.
Life
Faber was educated at
Rugby School
Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. ...
and
Christ Church, Oxford. 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
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...
.
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.
He was
knighted in the
1954 New Years Honours List.
Works
''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)
''Jowett''"> ''Jowett'''': A Portrait with Background''(1957)
* ''Twelve Years'' (1962), a poem
* ''Modern First Editions: Points and Values''
Legacy
William Saroyan wrote a short story about Faber in his 1971 book, ''Letters from 74 rue Taitbout or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody''.
See also
* Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
References
External links
New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors*
1889 births
1961 deaths
People from Malvern, Worcestershire
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
British World War I poets
20th-century British male writers
Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
People educated at Rugby School
Oxford University Press people
Knights Bachelor
British publishers (people)
20th-century British poets
British male poets
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