Postgate, Raymond, 1896-1971

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Dates:

Birth 1896-11-06

Death 1971-03-29

Biographical notes:

Raymond William Postgate (1896-1971) was educated at Oxford University. A conscientious objector, disinherited by his father for his views, he was arrested and court-martialled, but later released due to ill health.

From the guide to the Raymond Postgate papers, 1914-1990, (GB 206 Leeds University Library)

Born in Cambridge, Great Britain 1896, died in Great Britain 1971; journalist, author on labour and radical history; attracted to Guild socialism; one of the first conscientious objectors in 1916; journalist for the Daily Herald (edited by George Lansbury) in 1919; supported the Plebs League; founder/member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920; edited its weekly The Communist; broke with the party in 1922 and returned to the Daily Herald until 1925; with his father-in-law G. Lansbury he founded the Lansbury's Labour Weekly in 1925; member of the Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda; edited Fact in 1937; wrote biographies of John Wilkes, George Lansbury and others, novels, detective stories and after the Second World War also gastronomic guides.

From the description of Archives 1916, 1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80566270

Epithet: author

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