- Peter Utley
Thomas Edwin 'Peter' Utley CBE (
February 1 ,1921 –June 21 ,1988 ) was an English High Tory journalist.Utley was blind since his childhood and he went to
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he achieved adouble first inHistory . During theSecond 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 ", thencolumnist 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. [http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=8246&sort=party&office=yes]Margaret Thatcher called him 'the most distinguished Tory thinker of our time'. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980.His son Tom is a columnist for the "
The Daily Mail ".Books
*"Essays in Conservatism" (1949).
*"Modern Political Thought" (1952).
*"The Conservatives and the Critics" (1956).
*"Documents of Modern Political Thought" (Joint editor, 1957).
*"Not Guilty" (1957).
*"Edmund Burke" (1957).
*"Occasion for Ombudsmen" (1963).
*"Your Money and Your Life" (1964).
*"Enoch Powell: The Man and his Thinking" (1968).
*"What Laws May Cure" (1968).
*"Lessons of Ulster" (first edition: 1975, second edition: 1997).
*Charles Moore andSimon Heffer (editors), "A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T. E. Utley" (1989).External links
* [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107273 Written Statement by Mrs. Thatcher on the death of T.E. Utley (22 June, 1988)]
* [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107736 Mrs. Thatcher's preface to "A Tory Seer" (17 July, 1989)]
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