Please note that if click on some of the images on this page they will enlarge Elizabeth "Su" Suter 1926 - 2012 Elizabeth (Su) Suter was the eldest daughter of George "Arthur" Suter and Dorothy Suter. Arthur was mayor of Uxbridge and features in the Suters Ltd History and about his role as Mayor at 1959 - THE MAYOR AND MAYORESS OF UXBRIDGE As Tom Suter reported in Suters Limited - A brief History of the company and the people behind it Elizabeth "Su" Suter joined the Wrens and worked for the Bletchley Park operation at Eastcote and Stanmore during World War 2. Her father George Arthur Suter served as mayor of Uxbridge in the 1959/1960. (See History of Suters Ltd - 1960s) (Left - Bletchley Park and below the Bletchley Park "Roll of Honour") Click on image to view page and go to Bletchley Park website She later became a fashion illustrator and deputy head of fashion at St Martin’s School of Art in London and was the principal lecturer in the fashion school for thirty years. For many years she covered the Paris collections for British magazines and newspapers including The Daily Telegraph. Left: June 1982 John and Bobbie Suter's Golden wedding anniversary party at Chalfont-St-Giles - Seated left Su Suter, Frank Suter, Bobbie Suter and John Suter Elizabeth "Su" Suter at her 80th birthday in Adderbury, Oxfordshire in 2006 Just before her 85th birthday we received this letter..... ..... and on the 3rd April 2012, Su passed away Obituary in The Daily Telegraph May 2012 Elizabeth Suter Remembered - Fashion School Daily Jo Brocklehurst Portraitist of the London punk "In Elizabeth Suter's drawing class at St Martin's School of Art in the early 1970s, Jo Brocklehurst was difficult to miss, a tall figure with long jet-black hair under a broad-brimmed hat pulled down low (even while drawing)." Go to page in The Independent Here for Jo Brocklehurst's obituary and also see Fashionlines.com Artwork by Su Suter in Liberty of London advertisement - Source Tom Suter Archives Elizabeth Suter: Sharp Lines and Swift Sketches 8 February – 2 June 2019 (click on image above to go to site) Fashion & Textile Museum Elizabeth Suter: Sharp Lines and Swift Sketches 8 February – 2 June 2019 (click on image above to go to site) University of The Arts London -Central Saint Martins Su Suter as a baby with her parents Dorothy and Arthur Suter -Source Tom Suter Archives - See also George "Arthur" Suter and Dorothy Suter page ____________________________________________________________________ Good Housekeeping feature October 1983 Details supplied by Ginny Suter June 2012 Return to Full Suters Department Stores Index ____________________________________________________________________ Source of images, unless otherwise stated - Suter family archives |