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 March 2012, Chancellor returned as a columnist for the Spectator, with a column entitled "Long Life".[1]
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.[2] This experience was the basis of a memoir, Some Times in America, which was published in both the UK and the US.[3] He lives in Northamptonshire, and is the father of British model Cecilia Chancellor and the uncle of British actress Anna Chancellor.[4]
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| Preceded by Harold Creighton |
Editor of The Spectator 1975 - 1984 |
Succeeded by Charles Moore |
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Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph 1986 |
Succeeded by Ian Watson |
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