Anthony Howard (journalist)

Anthony Michell Howard CBE ( born February 12, 1934 Act; † December 19, 2010 in London, England ) was a British journalist, radio host and author. He was also editor of several British magazines.

Life

Anthony Howard, was born as the son of an Anglican clergyman, Canon Guy Howard. He attended the Purton Stoke School in Kintbury, West Berkshire, England and London Highgate School in Highgate School and Westminster Westminster Abbey, before he went to Christ Church College in Oxford. There he was in 1954 chairman of the Oxford University Labour Club and 1955 President of the Oxford Union.

After graduating from Oxford University Howard planned a career as a lawyer. In 1956 he was called to the London Bar of the Inner Temple, however, had been already taken into the army. In the Suez crisis, he participated in the Franco-British occupation of the Suez Canal Zone and other parts of Egypt as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers. With the publication of his diary from that time he violated rules of secrecy and narrowly escaped a military court proceedings.

The experiences from the period after Sue brought Howard to the path as a journalist. He began as a correspondent for Politics at Reynolds News and went in 1959 to the Manchester Guardian, today's The Guardian. In 1960 he was able to study scholarship in the United States due to a Harkness, however, was still employed at the same time the Manchester Guardian. From 1961 to 1964 he worked for the New Statesman as a political correspondent. During this time he was an admirer of the leader of the Labour Party, Hugh Gaitskell and a proponent of a more democratic development, when it was represented by the Conservative Party at the time.

Howard went 1965 on the conservative The Sunday Times, which led to a boycott by the Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the Labour Party, the ministers and government officials forbade to work with Howard. This went from 1966 to 1969 as a correspondent for the Observer to Washington, DC. During the years 1971 and 1972 he was the author of a political column in the Observer.

In the years 1972 to 1978 Howard was editor of the New Statesman, after he had been 1970-1972 deputy of Richard Crossman on the magazine. From 1979 to 1981 he was then editor of the weekly magazine of the BBC, The Listener. From 1981 to 1988 he was deputy editor of the Observer, but left the magazine after he had accused the editor Donald Trelford that this Tiny Rowland, the owner of the magazine, would allow too much interference in the content of the Observer.

In subsequent years, Howard worked as a reporter for various television programs for the BBC. In recent years in the profession, he worked as a freelancer for The Times worked for obituaries and responsible as a critic for the Times Book Review in the years 1990 to 2004. His last book review was published in 2005, the column is then set.

Howard was married to journalist Carol Anne Gaynor since 1965. In 1997 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE). He died after a surgery of an aneurysm. Howard was interested all his life in the developments of the Anglican Church, went to church every Sunday, but never referred to himself as a " devout " Christians.

Publications (selection)

• Basil Hume: The Monk Cardinal, Headline Books, London 2005 ISBN 0-7553-1247-3.
• As editor: Lives Remembered: " Times Obituaries " The Blewbury Press 1993.
• Crossman: The Pursuit of Power, Jonathan Cape, London 1990.
• RAB: Life of RAButler, Jonathan Cape London 1987.
• Richard West: Road to No. 10 Macmillan, New York City, USA in 1965.

• Richard Crossman: Diaries of a Cabinet Minister: Selections, 1964-1970, Hamish Hamilton, 1979.