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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
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on image to view page
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

Obituary
in The Times
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
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Good
Housekeeping
feature October 1983

Details
supplied by Ginny Suter June 2012
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Source
of images, unless otherwise stated - Suter family archives