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Alexander Chancellor

1 article 2007

Alexander Chancellor was a prominent British journalist and editor, best known for editing The Spectator from 1975 to 1984 and later writing columns for The Guardian and other publications. He contributed an obituary tribute to William Deedes for The Weekly Standard in 2007.

William Deedes, 1913-2007

September 17, 2007 · Magazine, Books and Arts

The Daily Telegraph that Bill Deedes edited from 1974 to 1986--the year in which Conrad Black bought the newspaper and ousted him--was an institution that would be unimaginable today, and one that must have already seemed antediluvian to its thrusting new Canadian proprietor.