Andrew Motion Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London; his mother was Catherine Gillian Bakewell (known as Gillian) and his father Andrew Richard Michael Motion (known as Richard). The family
John Lewis (typographer) in the UK and Reinhold in the US, including authors such as Peter Cook, Theo Crosby, Alan Fletcher, Ken Garland, Bob Gill, Norman Potter, David Pye, Paul Rand and Alison and Peter Smithson. The John Lewis Printing Collection of more than 20,000 items from the fifteenth to the twentieth century is held at Reading University. John Lewis (typographer) John Lewis (1912-1996) was a printer, illustrator and collector of printed ephemera. He was educated at Charterhouse and Goldsmiths', where his contemporaries included Denton Welch and Carel Weight. Lewis taught graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1951 to 1963.