Richard Guyatt

Professor Richard Guyatt (1914–2007) was a

For the 1951

Sir Hugh Casson wrote on Guyatt's retirement from the Royal College of Art in 1981, ". . . all his life Dick Guyatt has readily accepted and punctiliously dealt with teaching, designing, consulting, illustrating, lecturing, administrating; bringing to each problem, however small, that same quality of the true professional, the ruthless determination to achieve by rational methods aims that have been conceived in passion."

In 2000 he was awarded the

Gerald Beckwith, writing in The Independent after Guyatt's death, said "He was one of our last remaining examples of a genuine Edwardian gentleman, to whom the qualities of duty, fidelity, truthfulness and manners were paramount. To the end he practised all these with a lightness and impeccability of style entirely his own."

Book

• Two Lectures.
  ISBN 0-902490-25-7

• Guardian Obituary 27 October 2007.
• Independent Obituary 29 October 2007
• Times Obituary 4 December 2007