Peter Utley

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 a double first in History. During the Second 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", then columnist 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 and Simon 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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