Editing Raymond Postgate (section)

{{Short description|English socialist, writer, editor and historian (1896–1971)}}
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{{Infobox writer
|name=Raymond Postgate
|image=Raymond_Postgate.jpg
|caption=Postgate in April 1970
|birth_date= 6 November 1896
|birth_place=[[Cambridge]], England
|death_date= {{death date and age|1971|3|29|1896|11|6|df=y}}
|death_place=[[Canterbury]], [[Kent]], England
|occupation={{flatlist|
* Writer
* journalist
* editor
}}
|parents=[[John Percival Postgate]] and Edith Allen 
|relatives=<br>[[Oliver Postgate]] <small>(son)</small><br>[[John Postgate (microbiologist)|John Postgate]] <small>(son)</small><br>[[Margaret Cole]] <small>(sister)</small>
|genre=
|language=English
}}

'''Raymond William Postgate''' (6 November 1896&nbsp;– 29 March 1971) was an English socialist, writer, journalist and editor, social historian, [[mystery fiction|mystery novelist]], and gourmet who founded the ''[[Good Food Guide]]''.  He was a member of the [[Postgate family]].