Alexander Chancellor

Alexander Surtees Chancellor,

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(4 January 1940 – 28 January 2017) was a British journalist. Chancellor was educated at

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and

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. He was the editor of the conservative ''

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'' magazine from 1975 to 1984. In 1986, after a spell as deputy editor of ''The'' ''Sunday Telegraph'', he became the first Washington correspondent of the newly-launched quality broadsheet, ''

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,'' and subsequently launched and edited the paper's first Saturday magazine. In 1993, he spent a year in the

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working as an editor at ''

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'' magazine, where he oversaw the "Talk of the Town" section. This experience was the basis of a memoir, ''Some Times in America'', which both satirised the ordeal and recorded his deep affection for New York and the United States. It was published in both the UK and the U.S. in 2000. In June 2014 he became editor of ''

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'' magazine in succession to

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. Until January 2012, he contributed a weekly column in ''

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'', published in the "Weekend" supplement each Saturday. In March 2012, he began to contribute to ''The Spectator'' again, with a column entitled "Long Life". Chancellor lived in

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. He was the father of British model

Cecilia Chancellor Cecilia Chancellor (born 1 September 1966) is a British model who has worked consistently since the 1980s and has been referred to as the living embodiment of the "London Girl" by ''British Vogue'' creative director Robin Derrick in his book ' ...

, and Eliza, who married the writer

Alexander Waugh Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh (born 1963) is an English writer, critic, and journalist. Among other books, he has written ''Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family'' (2004), about five generations of his own family, and ''The House of Wi ...

. He was the grandson of Sir John Chancellor, the first

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. He was the uncle of British actress

Anna Chancellor Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is a British actress who has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards. Background and early life Chancellor was born in Richmond, England to barrister John Paget Chancellor, eldest son of ...

. He was appointed a

in the

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Articles by Chancellor
in ''

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