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About George Bayntun
- George Bayntun (4 August 1873 - September 1940) was an English bookseller, bookbinder, and collector. George Bayntun was born and lived in Bath, Somerset, England where he served a book-binding apprenticeship before starting his own book-binding business in Northumberland Place in 1894.
- He took on a number of London binders in order to raise the standard of craftsmanship in his own bindery and soon afterwards moved the business into larger premises on Walcot Street in Bath.
- In 1920, he purchased the bindery business of George Gregory, and in 1939, the Bayntun and Rivière binderies were incorporated into a new set of premises on Manvers Street in Bath, from where the business still operates today.Bayntun adhered to traditional book binding techniques, and built a strong relationship with many American dealers, Arthur Brenanto of Brentano's, Maurice Inman, and Nat Ladden.
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- Rosenbach hosted a lunch in his honour on a visit to New York City in 1936.George Bayntun died in 1940 at the age of 67.
- Bayntun's last years were crowned by the patronage of Queen Mary, who spent the World War II years near Bath.
- She granted the firm the royal appointment of Bookseller to Her Majesty in 1950. After George Bayntun's death in 1940, the firm continued under a series of managers and George's only child, Constance, oversaw its continuation.
- In 1953, she was joined by her son, Hylton Bayntun-Coward, who took over the management in 1954.
- Hylton served twice as President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and as High Sheriff of Avon.
- Hylton's widow, Charlotte, owned the bindery business of George Gregory until her death in September 2016. George Bayntun is now owned by Hylton's son, Edward Bayntun-Coward who is George Bayntun's great-grandson.
- Educated at Marlborough College and University College, Oxford, Edward worked for five years at Maggs Bros Ltd in Berkeley Square, London.
- He has served as Chairman of the Bath Preservation Trust and in March 2016 he was appointed as High Sheriff of Somerset.
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