Peter du Sautoy

Peter Francis du Sautoy CBE (1912–1995) was a British publisher and editor who was the chairman of Faber and Faber.[1][2]

Peter du Sautoy

CBE
Born(1912-02-19)19 February 1912
Died16 July 1995(1995-07-16) (aged 83)
Employer(s)Faber & Faber
Royal Air Force
British Museum

Early life

Du Sautoy was born to a notable family in 1912.[3] His father served as a colonel in the Army and received the Order of the British Empire for his services.[3]

Du Sautoy was educated at Uppingham Foundation School and for higher education, he went to Wadham College, Oxford at the University of Oxford, where he received his Master of Arts degree.[3]

Career

In 1935, he joined the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum where he served for a year.[3] After that he joined the University of Oxford as an Assistant Educational Officer and worked there for three years.[3]

In 1940, he enlisted himself in the Royal Air Force where he served until the end of the Second World War. In 1946, he joined Faber and Faber.[3]

Bibliography
  • du Sautoy, Peter (1957). The Civil Service
  • du Sautoy, Peter (1958). Community Development in Ghana[4][5]
  • du Sautoy, Peter (1964). Problems of Communication in Extension and Community Development Campaigns

Personal life

His grandchildren include Marcus du Sautoy.[6]

He married Molly Floud, the twin sister of Peter Floud (who married the advocate of comprehensive education Jean MacDonald) and who was the sister of Bernard Floud, the Labour MP from 1964 to 1967 for Acton, who was accused of working for the KGB, and had killed himself aged 52, only days after he was interviewed by MI5 for links to the KGB.

References
  1. "Du Sautoy, Peter Francis (1912–1995), publisher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/59125. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Peter du Sautoy". The New York Review of Books.
  3. "OBITUARY:Peter du Sautoy". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022.
  4. Milburn, S. (6 July 1959). "Community Development in Ghana. By Peter Du Sautoy. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Pp. 209, ill. 15s". Africa. 29 (3): 315. doi:10.2307/1157629. JSTOR 1157629. S2CID 147404183 – via Cambridge University Press.
  5. Sautoy, Peter DU (1966). "Book Reviews". Community Development Journal. 1 (3): 42. doi:10.1093/cdj/1.3.42.
  6. "My family values". TheGuardian.com. 11 September 2009.
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