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John Carter (writer)
John Waynflete Carter (10 May 1905 – 18 March 1975) was an English writer, diplomat, bibliographer, book-collector, antiquarian bookseller and president of the Bibliographical Society in 1968. He was recognised as one of the most important figures in the Anglo-American book world. He was the great-grandson of Canon T. T. Carter
After attending Eton College, he studied classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a double first. He then joined Scrivner's working two periods 1927–1939 and 1946–1953 building up the antiquarian bookselling side.
During World War II he worked for the Ministry of Information until 1943 and then moved to New York City to work for the British Information Services where he wrote Victory in Burma.
He held the Sandars Readership in Bibliography at Cambridge University in 1947 and lectured on Taste and technique in book collecting: a study of recent developments in Great Britain and the United States. The Sandars Readership is one of the major British bibliographical lecture series.
He returned to Scrivner's after the War until it closed its London Office in 1953. He then worked for Roger Makins, British Ambassador to the United States until 1955 and was made a CBE.
In 1955 he joined Sotheby's where he worked closely with Anthony Hobson. He was associate director until 1972.
Carter was the husband of the writer and curator Ernestine Carter and the brother of the printer Will Carter (1912–2001) of the Rampant Lions Press, at which some of his smaller-scale works were published.
He was buried in the cemetery at Eton and Housman's poem, XLVII – FOR MY FUNERAL, "O thou that from thy mansion" was read at the service.
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John Waynflete Carter (10 May 1905 – 18 March 1975) was an English writer, diplomat, bibliographer, book-collector, antiquarian bookseller and president of the Bibliographical Society in 1968. He was recognised as one of the most important figures in the Anglo-American book world. He was the great-grandson of Canon T. T. Carter
After attending Eton College, he studied classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a double first. He then joined Scrivner's working two periods 1927–1939 and 1946–1953 building up the antiquarian bookselling side.
During World War II he worked for the Ministry of Information until 1943 and then moved to New York City to work for the British Information Services where he wrote Victory in Burma.
He held the Sandars Readership in Bibliography at Cambridge University in 1947 and lectured on Taste and technique in book collecting: a study of recent developments in Great Britain and the United States. The Sandars Readership is one of the major British bibliographical lecture series.
He returned to Scrivner's after the War until it closed its London Office in 1953. He then worked for Roger Makins, British Ambassador to the United States until 1955 and was made a CBE.
In 1955 he joined Sotheby's where he worked closely with Anthony Hobson. He was associate director until 1972.
Carter was the husband of the writer and curator Ernestine Carter and the brother of the printer Will Carter (1912–2001) of the Rampant Lions Press, at which some of his smaller-scale works were published.
He was buried in the cemetery at Eton and Housman's poem, XLVII – FOR MY FUNERAL, "O thou that from thy mansion" was read at the service.