2-565: Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British author, known for his books The Cloudspotter's Guide and The Wavewatcher's Companion . Pretor-Pinney is son of Anthony Robert Edmund Pretor-Pinney and Laura Uppercu, daughter of George Winthrop Haight, of Manhattan, observer for the American Bar Association and a specialist in international law. The Pretor-Pinney family were landowners at Somerton, Somerset since
4-458: The 1800s, descendants of the sugar merchant and Mayor of Bristol Charles Pinney ; Anthony Pretor-Pinney had Somerton Erleigh, named for the family's former house on a different part of the estate, built in 1972–3. Pretor-Pinney attended Westminster School , the University of Oxford , and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design . He co-founded the magazine The Idler and founded
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