Stephen Glover (columnist)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox person Stephen Charles Morton Glover (born 13 January 1952)<ref>People of Today, Debrett's Ltd, 2002, p. 751</ref> is a British journalist and columnist for the Daily Mail.

Early life

The son of clergyman John Morton Glover (died 1979), a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral and formerly rector of Broseley, Shropshire, and Helen Ruth, née Jones (died 1984),<ref>People of Today, Debrett's Ltd, 2002, p. 751</ref><ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory, 87th ed., Oxford University Press, 1977, pp. 376-7</ref><ref>First Lady- Intrigue at the court of Carrie and Boris Johnson, Michael Ashcroft, Biteback Publishing, 2022, p. 9</ref> Glover was educated at Shrewsbury School and Mansfield College, Oxford.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Glover co-founded The Independent in 1986 with Andreas Whittam Smith and Matthew Symonds.<ref name=founding>Template:Cite news</ref> All three had previously been journalists on The Daily Telegraph and had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell's ownership.

Between 1986 and 1990, Glover was Foreign Editor of The Independent.<ref name=founding/> The paper's early foreign correspondents included James Fenton, Alexander Chancellor, Patrick Marnham and Rupert Cornwell. In 1990, he became the founding editor of The Independent on Sunday.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1992, Glover helped Richard Ingrams launch The Oldie magazine with fellow journalists Auberon Waugh, Alexander Chancellor, and Patrick Marnham.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Glover has been a columnist for the London Evening Standard (1992–95), The Daily Telegraph (1995–97), The Spectator (1996–2005), The Independent (2005–12) and The Oldie (2014–23). He has written a column for the Daily Mail since 1998.

In 2004, Glover proposed a new compact upmarket newspaper to be called The World with fellow journalists Francis Wheen and Frank Johnson under the chairmanship of Adam Broadbent, a former managing director of finances at Schroders plc.<ref>David Rowan,"Man with a new paper dream; Stephen Glover thinks we need another quality daily - but is there room in the market?" London Evening Standard, 24 March 2004.</ref> The proposed newspaper was loosely modelled on Le Monde in France, and was intended as a response to the dumbing down of some quality titles.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was reported that Glover and his colleagues sought only £15.4 million to launch The World,<ref name=World>Template:Cite news</ref> less than the budget for The Independent almost 20 years earlier, though this amount was subsequently slightly increased. The project did not get off the ground.

Glover is the author of Paper Dreams (1993),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> an account of the founding of The Independent, and editor of The Penguin Book of Journalism (1999).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His first novel, Splash!, was published by Constable in 2017.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Personal life

He married Celia Elizabeth Montague in 1982; they have two children.<ref>People of Today, Debrett's Ltd, 2002, p. 751</ref>