T. E. Utley
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Thomas Edwin 'Peter' Utley C.B.E. (1921 - 1988) was a High Tory journalist.
Utley was blind since his childhood and he went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he achieved a double first in History. During the Second World War he was a Times leader writer and then worked for the Observer and the Sunday Times. In the early 1950s Utley was Assistant Editor of The Spectator and then for twenty years he was a leader writer for The Daily Telegraph, then columnist and Chief Assistant Editor. In 1987 Utley then moved to The Times as Obituary Editor and a columnist.
In the general election of February 1974 Utley stood as the Ulster Unionist candidate for North Antrim against Ian Paisley but lost getting 21.01% of the vote. [link]
Margaret Thatcher called him 'the most distinguished Tory thinker of our time'.
His son, Tom is a columnist for the The Daily Telegraph.
Books
- A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T. E. Utley edited by Charles Moore and Simon Heffer
- The Lessons of Ulster (1975) (Friends of the Union, 1997) by T. E. Utley
External links
- [Written Statement by Mrs. Thatcher on the death of T.E. Utley (22 June, 1988)]
- [Mrs. Thatcher's preface to A Tory Seer (17 July, 1989)]
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