Background
Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there.
Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there.
University of Cambridge.
In 1945 he went to Cambridge University, where he read economics, after which he spent some years teaching in Ottawa, Canada, returning to England in 1953. He worked as a freelance journalist in London and Madrid. From 1954 to 1965 he worked for Petroleum Times, becoming its editors
In 1966 he became a petroleum consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Drayton is the author of one volume of poetry, Three Meridians (1950), and two novels: Christopher (1959), which was first published in part in Bim magazine, and Zohara (1961). He has also written short stories, such as "Mr Dombie the Zombie", which was broadcast on the British Broadcasting Corporation programme Caribbean Voices.