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John Percival Postgate (1853–1926), classicist

The Postgate family is an English family that has been notable in a variety of different fields. It originated in the North York Moors and records go back to land held by Postgates in 1200.[citation needed] Fields and a farm bearing the name still exist.[citation needed] The name is rare outside Yorkshire.

food adulteration.[2]

His son

Classical Quarterly, and published both school textbooks and editions of Latin poetry. He married Edith Allen,[3]
and they had six children.

John Percival Postgate's daughter Dame

Daisy Lansbury (1892–1971), daughter of, and secretary to, the politician George Lansbury (1859–1940) who led the Labour Party
from 1932 to 1935, and whose biography was among Raymond's books.

In the next generation, Raymond's children include the microbiologist John Postgate FRS (1922–2014),[4] Professor of Microbiology at the University of Sussex, who was also a writer on, and sometime performer of, jazz.[5][6] His brother, Richard Oliver Postgate (1925–2008), was an animator, puppeteer and writer, who created television series including Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, and Clangers from the 1950s to the 1980s. Oliver Postgate had three sons, Stephen Postgate, Simon Postgate and Daniel Postgate. His youngest son Daniel Postgate is a children's book writer and illustrator, he inherited Oliver's company Smallfilms and since then has created a new series of Postgate's Clangers on CBeebies.[7] Their cousin, actress Dame Angela Lansbury (1925-2022), had a film and stage career spanning over 70 years.

Another son of John Percival Postgate was Ormond Oliver Postgate (1905–1989), a much-loved teacher of Latin and history at Peter Symonds School in Winchester, who retired in 1970. His son Nicholas Postgate,[8] FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British academic and Assyriologist. He is Professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[9]

The family is probably related collaterally to the Catholic

recusant priest and martyr Blessed Nicholas Postgate (1596/97 – 7 August 1679) who was hanged, disembowelled and quartered at York in the aftermath of the Popish Plot, as well as to Michael Postgate who founded the Postgate School at Great Ayton where Captain James Cook was educated.[10]

The Australian writer and academic Coral Lansbury, the mother of Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, was a distant cousin through the Lansburys.

Biographies and autobiographies

The speaking voice of Oliver Postgate, from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, 15 July 2007
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References

  1. ^ Postgate (2001), pp. 7-13
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35582
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  3. ^ "Postgate, John Percival (PSTT872JP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ "POSTGATE, Prof. John Raymond". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online edition via Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Royal Society list of Fellows; Postgate was elected in 1977.
  6. ^ John Postgate (microbiologist) profile, Cambridge University Press; accessed 23 April 2016.
  7. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/100678
    . Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  8. ^ "POSTGATE, Prof. (John) Nicholas". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online edition via Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ^ "(John) Nicholas POSTGATE". People of Today. Debrett's. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  10. ^ Postgate (2001) pp. 75–76, where more sources concerning Nicholas and Michael may be found.
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