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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Charles Moore's life peerage gazetted ...

 _. The life peerage awarded to Charles Moore in Boris Johnson's Dissolution Honours list has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Moore of Etchingham, of Etchingham in the County of East Sussex, 17 September, 2020.

Charles Hilary Moore (born 31 October 1956) is an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph; he still writes for all three. At the Telegraph he was the boss of later Prime Minister Boris Johnson who was the paper's Brussels correspondent. When asked what working with Johnson was like he replied: "it was a nightmare." Moore is best known globally for his authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, published in three volumes (2013, 2016 and 2019).

Moore was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. After university he joined The Daily Telegraph as a political correspondent. From the Telegraph, he became a political columnist at The Spectator. In 1984 he became editor of The Spectator and edited The Sunday Telegraph from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 2003 he served as editor of The Daily Telegraph.

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