Frank Johnson (journalist)
| Frank Johnson | |
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| Born | Frank Robert Johnson 20 January 1943 |
| Died | 15 December 2006 |
| Spouse(s) | Virginia Fraser |
| Notable credit(s) | Spectator The Daily Telegraph |
Frank Robert Johnson (20 January 1943 – 15 December 2006) was an English journalist.
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[edit] Education
Johnson failed his Eleven Plus examination, and was educated at a state secondary school in Shoreditch in East London, which he left at the age of 16. Unlike many senior journalists of his time, he did not have a background in further or higher education, and instead, had taken a job as a 'messenger' on a national newspaper.[1]
[edit] Career
[edit] Early career
He was a junior reporter at the North West Evening Mail in Barrow-in-Furness from 1965 to 1966. One of the duties of news staff was to cover sport, which was an unwelcome intrusion into the weekend. Johnson once reported the score of a Barrow Rugby League match inaccurately and was cursed as a bloody fool by his editor on the Monday morning. However, he never had to cover sport again.
[edit] Later career
He was the editor of the conservative Spectator magazine from 1995 to 1999 and was a popular columnist for The Daily Telegraph. He had a particular reputation for his work as a parliamentary sketch writer, as which he was widely regarded as the most incisive and amusing commentator of his generation.
[edit] Personal life
He married Virginia Fraser, the widow of Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, in 1998 who survives him. He died after a seven-year fight against cancer.[2]
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| Preceded by ? |
Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph 1994–1995 |
Succeeded by Kim Fletcher |
| Preceded by Dominic Lawson |
Editor of The Spectator 1995–1999 |
Succeeded by Boris Johnson |
[edit] References
- ^ Frank Johnson - Obituary The Independent newspaper. Retrieved 2 October, 2011.
- ^ Frank Johnson dies telegraph.co.uk
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