Alexander Chancellor
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Alexander Chancellor (born 4 January 1940) is a British journalist. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was the editor of the conservative Spectator magazine from 1975 to 1984, and until his retirement in January 2012 contributed a weekly column in The Guardian, published in the "Weekend" supplement each Saturday.
In 1993 he spent a year in America working as an editor at The New Yorker magazine, where he oversaw the "Talk of the Town" section.[1] This experience was the basis of a memoir, Some Times in America, which was published in both the UK and the US.[2] He lives in Northamptonshire, and is the father of British model Cecilia Chancellor and the uncle of British actress Anna Chancellor.[3]
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- ^ Porter, William (6 February 2000). "Best New Yorker profiles gathered in Life Stories"The Denver Post (Colorado): p. G-04.
- ^ Chancellor, Alexander (2000). Some Times in America - And a Life in a Year at the New Yorker. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 978-0-7867-0710-2.
- ^ Kay, Richard (18 November 2005). "Winner singing the blues"Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-369048/Winner-singing-blues.html.
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| Preceded by Harold Creighton |
Editor of The Spectator 1975 - 1984 |
Succeeded by Charles Moore |
| Preceded by ? |
Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph 1986 |
Succeeded by Ian Watson |
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