Matthew d'Ancona
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Matthew d'Ancona
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| Born |
27 January 1968 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
St Dunstan's College Magdalen College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Editor of The Spectator Columnist for The Daily Telegraph |
Matthew d'Ancona (born 27 January 1968) is a British journalist. A former deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph, he was appointed editor of The Spectator in February 2006, a post he retained until August 2009.
Of Italian descent, his father, a Maltese tennis champion, came from Malta to Britain to study and ended up playing youth football for Newcastle United before becoming a civil servant. His mother was an English teacher.
D'Ancona was educated at St Dunstan's College, an independent school for boys (now co-educational) in Catford in south London, where he was head boy. He also showed an early aptitude for journalism by winning an essay-writing competition run by The Observer on the subject of the future of British industry. He went to Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, where he took the top First in Modern History for his year in 1989. The same year, he was elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
After a year studying medieval confession, he joined the magazine Index on Censorship, before proceeding to The Times as a trainee. There he rose swiftly to become Education Correspondent and then Assistant Editor at the age of 26.
He joined The Sunday Telegraph in 1996 as deputy comment editor and columnist, before becoming Deputy Editor. He wrote a weekly political column in The Sunday Telegraph for a decade, in which role he was "treated as the best insight into Cameronism by Conservative MPs". He succeeded Boris Johnson as editor of The Spectator. On 28 August 2009 it was announced that d'Ancona would be stepping down as editor to be replaced by Fraser Nelson.
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