{{Short description|British academic, publisher, and poet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use British English|date=July 2012}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} '''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.<ref>Pine, L. G., ed., ''The Author's and Writer's Who's Who'', 4th ed., 1960, p. 125</ref> He gained a first in Classical Moderations in 1910 and a first in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1912.<ref>''Oxford University Calendar 1914'', Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1914, pp. 198, 210</ref> 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.<ref>UK list: {{London Gazette |issue=40053 |date=29 December 1953 |pages=2 |supp=y}}</ref>

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''

==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== {{portal|Poetry |Books}} * Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == *[http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/fa.htm New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors] * {{LCAuth|nr90012337|G. C. Faber|14|ue}}

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