Rintoul
The Spectator's founder, Scottish reformer Robert Stephen Rintoul, former editor of the Dundee Advertiser and the London-based Atlas, launched the paper on 6 July 1828. Rintoul … See more

Evelyn Wrench and Wilson Harris
For his first year as proprietor, John Evelyn Wrench appointed John (Jack) Atkins his editor, who had worked on the paper for the last two decades, acting as editor during Strachey's recurrent bouts of illness. But the … See more

Matthew d'Ancona
D’Ancona had been Deputy Editor at The Sunday Telegraph, and before that an assistant editor at … See more

The Spectator is politically conservative. The magazine has historically been liberal in outlook: over the course of its first century it supported the Radical wing of the Whigs, the Liberal Party, and the Liberal Unionists, who eventually merged with the Conservatives. In … See more

Henry Keswick and Alexander Chancellor
In 1975 Creighton sold The Spectator to Henry Keswick, again for £75,000 (Creighton sold the 99 Gower Street premises separately, so the magazine moved to 56 Doughty Street). Keswick was chairman of the See more

The Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for outstanding travel writing offers £2,000 every year. The first winner, was Hilary Mantel, in 1987. See more

The magazine has popularised or coined the phrases "The Establishment" (1955), "nanny state" (1965), "pseud" (1960s), "young fogey" (1984), and "virtue signalling" (2015). See more