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Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson (born 17 December 1956) is a British journalist.


Background

Lawson was born to a
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family, the elder son of
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politician
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and his first wife socialite Vanessa Salmon. Lawson was educated at
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(for one year, which he "absolutely hated"), completing his schooling at
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and proceeding to study History at
Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...
. Lawson had three sisters: the TV chef and writer
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; Horatia; and Thomasina (who died of breast cancer in 1993 in her early 30s). Their mother, an heir to the
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empire, died from
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in 1985. Lawson's father was
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between 1983 and 1989. Lawson was married to Jane Whytehead from 1982 until 1991. He has been married to
Rosa Monckton Rosamond Mary Monckton, MBE (born 26 October 1953) is an English business woman and charity campaigner. Background Monckton is the daughter of Marianna Laetitia Bower and Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and was educated at ...
, a Roman Catholic, the daughter of the 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, since 1991. The Lawsons have two daughters (another daughter, Natalia, was stillborn), Domenica Marianna Tertia and Savannah Vanessa Lucia; Domenica, who is a goddaughter of
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was born with
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.


Career

Lawson joined the
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as a researcher, and then wrote for the ''
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''. From 1990 until 1995 he was editor of ''
The Spectator ''The Spectator'' is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world. It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...
'' magazine, a post his father had occupied from 1966 to 1970. In his capacity as editor of ''The Spectator'' he conducted, in June 1990, an interview with the cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley in which Ridley expressed opinions immensely hostile to Germany and the
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, likening the initiatives of
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and others to those of
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. Lawson added to the damage caused, by claiming that the opinions expressed by Ridley were shared by the Prime Minister,
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. Ridley was forced to resign from the
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shortly after this incident. Although some senior Tories called for Lawson to be fired, his proprietor,
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, stood by him. Under Lawson's five-year editorship, the magazine's circulation grew from 30,000 to 50,000. From 1995 until 2005, Lawson was editor of ''
The Sunday Telegraph ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings. It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', kn ...
''. In 2006, he started to write columns for ''
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'' newspaper and in 2008, he became the main columnist for ''
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''. In his article for ''The Independent'' dated 2 September 2013, he wrote that it would be his last for that newspaper, although he did not give a reason. He is a strong chess player and is the author of ''The Inner Game'', on the inside story of the 1993
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. He was also involved in the organisation of the 1983 World Chess championship semi-final. Lawson writes a monthly chess column in '' Standpoint''. In 2014 he was elected president of the English Chess Federation.
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wrote in 2001 that Lawson had worked with the intelligence agency
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, but Lawson denied being an agent.
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, then editor of ''The Spectator'', wrote a pseudonymous article on the subject which Lawson (then editor of ''The Sunday Telegraph'') found "intensely annoying" because of the potential increase in the threat to his newspaper's foreign correspondents. However, in 1998, Lawson acknowledged that articles written in 1994, under a false name with a Sarajevo dateline while he was editor of the ''Spectator'' magazine, were "probably" written by an MI6 officer. In 2016, Lawson attributed the result of the
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to the legalisation of
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.


References


Publications

* Lawson, Dominic, ''The Inner Game'', Hardinge Simpole Limited, 2008, * Diamond, John,
Dawkins, Richard Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An at ...
(Foreword), Dominic Lawson (Editor), ''Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations'', Vintage, 2001, * Lawson, Dominic, ''End Game: Kasparov vs. Short'', Harmony, 1994,


External links

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