Editors
The editors of The Spectator have been:
- Robert Stephen Rintoul, 1828–1858
- John Scott, 1858–1861
- Meredith Townsend and Richard Holt Hutton, 1861–1886
- Meredith Townsend, 1886–1887
- John St Loe Strachey, 1887–1925
- Sir Evelyn Leslie Wrench, 1925–1932
- Henry Wilson Harris, 1932–1953
- Walter Taplin, 1953–1954
- Ian Gilmour, 1954–1959
- Brian Inglis, 1959–1962
- Iain Hamilton, 1962–1963
- Iain Macleod, 1963–1965
- Nigel Lawson, 1966–1970
- George Gale, 1970–1973
- Harold Creighton, 1973–1975
- Alexander Chancellor, 1975–1984
- Charles Moore, 1984–1990
- Dominic Lawson, 1990–1995
- Frank Johnson, 1995–1999
- Boris Johnson, 1999–2005
- Matthew d'Ancona, 2006–2009
- Fraser Nelson, 2009–present
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“Narrowed-down by her early editors and anthologists, reduced to quaintness or spinsterish oddity by many of her commentators, sentimentalized, fallen-in-love with like some gnomic Garbo, still unread in the breadth and depth of her full range of work, she was, and is, a wonder to me when I try to imagine myself into that mind.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The trenchant editorials plus the keen rivalry natural to extremely partisan papers made it necessary for the editors to be expert pugilists and duelists as well as journalists. An editor made no assertion that he could not defend with fists or firearms.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)