TOM FABER flourished as a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and as its College Lecturer in Physics. The college — the only college in Oxford or Cambridge founded by their citizens — has a history of 652 years’ research and teaching on the same site since its foundation in mediaeval Cambridge. But Faber was not only a scholar. For most of his life he was involved with publishing in the family firm of Faber and Faber, as a board member and eventually as chairman of the board.
Faber and Faber, founded in 1929, is perhaps Britain’s foremost publisher of new poetry and works of literature. Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, founded it in 1929. Geoffrey Faber was