Peter Usborne

Thomas Peter Usborne (18 August 1937 – 30 March 2023) was a British publisher. In the early 1960s, Usborne co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye. In 1973 he founded the children's book publisher Usborne Publishing. Career Usborne studied at the University of Oxford and INSEAD business school in France. He was the first managing director of the London-based satirical magazine Private Eye from its foundation in 1961, before leaving to study at INSEAD. After taking a position at the British Printing Corporation, he started working in children's books when he found out he was going to become a parent. Soon afterwards, in 1973, he set up his own company. His eponymous publishing company was named Children's Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards in both 2012 and 2020, Independent Publisher of the Year at the Independent Publishing Awards in 2014, and Private Business of the Year in 2015.