Background
Achilles James Daunt was born on 18 October 1963, the son of the diplomat Sir Timothy Daunt and his wife Patricia Susan Knight.
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He was educated at Sherborne School, before reading history at Pembroke College, Cambridge University.
Career
His first job was as a purser with Carnival Cruise Lincolnshire. After working in the United States as a banker for Justice of the Peace Morgan, he founded Daunt Books, a chain of six bookshops in London. In May 2011 he was appointed managing director of Waterstones by the company"s new owner, the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut.
The pair were listed at fourth place in a 2011 Guardian list of the top 100 people in the British books industry.
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