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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.
Geoffrey Faber History of Faber & Faber: 1920s Publisher and poet, educated at Malvern College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a double first in Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores (1912).
Sir Geoffrey Faber (1889 – 1961) was the chairman, first of Faber and Gwyer Ltd., and then from 1929 until his retirement in 1960, Faber & Faber Ltd. He became a prominent figure in the world of publishing and as President of the Publishers’ Association fought a successful campaign in 1940 to prevent taxation on books.
Sir Geoffrey Faber meanwhile gave way to Richard de la Mare as Chairman in 1960, taking up the newly created post of President. Faber died the next year. There has always been a Faber family member – and representative of the family company Faber Holdings – on the board of Faber & Faber.
Der Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize ist ein 1963 begründeter britischer Literaturpreis, der seit 1964 zu Ehren von Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), dem Gründer und ersten Chairman des britischen Verlags Faber & Faber, verliehen wird.
Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), publisher and poet, was educated at Malvern College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a double first in Classical Moderations (1910) and Literae Humaniores (1912). He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple (1921), though he was never to practise law.
The Times (1 Apr 1961) 12. Sir Geoffrey Faber, president of the publishing house that bears his name, died yesterday, aged 71. Geoffrey Cust Faber was born on August 23, 1889, at Malvern, and was the second son of the Rev. Henry Mitford Faber, a housemaster at Malvern College.
