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British businessman

Harold Digby Fitzgerald Creighton
Born(1927-09-11)11 September 1927
Died3 June 2003(2003-06-03) (aged 75)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Industrialist, magazine proprietor
Known forProprietor and editor of The Spectator
SpouseHarriet Wallace
ChildrenFour
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
Rank2nd lieutenant
UnitRoyal Armoured Corps

Harold Digby Fitzgerald Creighton (11 September 1927 – 3 July 2003) was a British businessman and machine tool pioneer, who bought The Spectator magazine in 1967 for £75,000.

In 1947, he was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps and served in Egypt and the Far East. After completing his National Service, he joined a tin-smelting business in Malaya (now known as Malaysia) and returned to Britain, where he eventually became Chairman of the Scottish Machine Tool Corporation of Glasgow.

In 1967, bought The Spectator, a politically conservative, weekly magazine. In 1973, he took over as editor although he had no prior experience as a journalist, after sacking the incumbent editor, George Gale. He edited the magazine until 1975, when he sold it for £75,000 to Henry Keswick. During his tenure, the magazine fervently opposed British entry into the European Economic Community.

Education

Creighton was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), at Hertford Heath, near to the county town of Hertford in Hertfordshire.

References

  1. "Harold Creighton Obituary". The Times. 14 July 2003. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
  2. "No. 38130". The London Gazette. 21 November 1936. p. 5576.
  3. "Harold Creighton Obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 8 July 2003. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
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Preceded byGeorge Gale Editor of The Spectator
1973 – 1975 		Succeeded byAlexander Chancellor


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