Gavin Souter

Gavin Geoffrey Souter AO (born 2 May 1929) is an Australian journalist and historian.

He was born in Sydney, the son of a bank manager, Archibald Souter and Roma Souter, was educated at Kempsey High School, and Scots College in Warwick, Queensland and graduated BA from the University of Sydney. He joined The Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet journalist in 1947 and worked there for the next 40 years, serving as a correspondent in New York City and London and raised to Officer level (AO) in 1995. He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001.

List of works New Guinea: the Last Unknown, Angus and Robertson, 1963. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1965. Sydney Observed, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1968 Cat. Card No. 62-25528 Registry No. 68-1817, Brio Books, 2017, A Peculiar People: the Australians in Paraguay. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1968. , Brio Books, 2012, The Idle Hill of Summer: an Australian Childhood 1939-1945, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1972. Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia 1901-1919, Collins, 1976. , Brio Books, 2017, Company of Heralds: a Century and a Half of Australian Publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its Predecessors 1831-1981, Melbourne University Press, 1981. Acts of Parliament: A narrative history of Australia's Federal Legislature, Melbourne University Press, 1988. Heralds and Angels: the House of Fairfax 1841-1990, Melbourne University Press, 1991. Mosman: a History, Melbourne University Press, 1994. , Brio Books, 2012, A Torrent of Words: Leon Gellert: a Writer's Life, Brindabella Press, 1996, Brio Books, 2012, Lucinda: A memorial for the Centenary of Federation, The Spit, Mosman, Mosman Municipal Council, 2001, Times & Tides: a Middle Harbour Memoir, Simon & Schuster, 2004. , Brio Books, 2012, (Unpublished MS, held by the National Library of Australia: Cocos. A History of the Clunies-Ross Family. Commissioned by John Clunies-Ross)