British journalist, writer and broadcaster (1923-2020)
Peregrine Worsthorne
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Born
| Peregrine Gerard Koch de Gooreynd
(
1923-12-22
)
22 December 1923
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Died
| 4 October 2020
(2020-10-04)
(aged 96)
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Education
| Stowe School
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Alma mater
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Occupations
| - Journalist
- writer
- broadcaster
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Spouses
| -
Claudie Baynham
(
m.
1950; died 1990)
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Children
| 1
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Service/
branch
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British Army
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Years of service
| 1943?1945
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Rank
| Second lieutenant
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Service number
| 278628
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Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne
(
ne
Koch de Gooreynd
; 22 December 1923 ? 4 October 2020) was a British journalist, writer, and broadcaster. He spent the largest part of his career at the
Telegraph
newspaper titles, eventually becoming editor of
The Sunday Telegraph
for several years. He left the newspaper in 1997.
Worsthorne was a conservative-leaning political journalist, who wrote columns and leaders for many years.
Early life, school and military service
[
edit
]
Worsthorne was born in
Chelsea
, the younger son of General Alexander Louis Koch de Gooreynd, a Belgian banker who had served his country in
World War I
, and
Priscilla Reyntiens
, an English
Roman Catholic
and the granddaughter of the 12th
Earl of Abingdon
.
[1]
[2]
The family name was anglicised following the birth of Worsthorne's older brother
Simon Towneley
, who from 1976 to 1996 was the
Lord Lieutenant
of
Lancashire
.
[3]
[4]
The two boys were baptised Roman Catholic, but did not attend Catholic denominational schools.
Worsthorne's mother divorced his father when he was five years old, and shortly afterwards married
Sir Montagu Norman
, then the Governor of the
Bank of England
.
[2]
As a consequence of the split, the family butler effectively raised the two brothers for several years.
"Unhappy as some of my formative experiences were, all in all, it was pretty good soil for someone wanting to go into public life", he would later recall, commenting on the tradition of public duty and service so prevalent in his family and his family's social circle.
[5]
Worsthorne's biological father reverted his name to Koch de Gooreynd in 1937
[3]
and lived in
Rhodesia
for several years; Worsthorne discovered in the early 1960s that a half-brother was born during this period.
Worsthorne was educated at
Stowe School
, where, he wrote, he was once seduced on the art room
chaise-longue
by
George Melly
, a fellow pupil who was later a
jazz
singer and writer, but Melly always denied it happened. One other pupil,
Colin Welch
, became a lifelong friend.
[6]
Welch also had a career in journalism, and persuaded Worsthorne to apply to
Peterhouse, Cambridge
.
[7]
He began his studies at the college in 1942, having won an exhibition to read history. The
Master of Peterhouse
at that time was the Conservative academic
Herbert Butterfield
. As was normal practice Worsthorne was called up for war service after three terms; he was
rusticated
during the last term. In army training with the
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
, however, he injured his shoulder and after being admitted to a hospital in Oxford was able to persuade
Magdalen College, Oxford
, to admit him for a term.
After receiving his commission on 4 June 1943,
[8]
Worsthorne saw active service in
Phantom
during the
Italian campaign
with the philosopher
Michael Oakeshott
,
[9]
and was part of the occupying force in
Hamburg
for three months in 1945. Worsthorne returned to Peterhouse and took his degree a year early, gaining a second.
Early career in journalism
[
edit
]
Worsthorne entered the newspaper industry as a sub-editor on
The Glasgow Herald
in 1946, on a two-year training program for
Oxbridge
graduates. He then worked for
The Times
from 1948 on the Foreign Desk, again as a sub-editor in his first year there. During this time he was called into the office of the newspaper's editor
William Casey
, who then told him: "Dear Boy,
The Times
is a stable of hacks and a thoroughbred like you will never be at home here".
[10]
[4]
He became a correspondent in Washington (1950?52), where his advocacy of Senator
Joe McCarthy
's pursuit of communist subversion in the
United States
government eventually led to a split with the more circumspect
Times
, and, in 1953, he joined
The Daily Telegraph
.
[11]
Despite moving to a newspaper more suited to his politics, Worsthorne nevertheless left
The Times
with some regret, feeling that working for any other title in
Fleet Street
could only be anticlimactic, and that working conditions at
The Telegraph
were inferior to those at
The Times
, then based at
Printing House Square
. At this time he also contributed articles to the magazine
Encounter
(then covertly funded by the
CIA
).
In a November 1954 article discussing McCarthyism titled "America: Conscience or Shield?", he wrote that America's flaws were something the British would have to accept for their own benefit, because: "legend created an American god. The god has failed. But unlike the Communist god which, on closer examination, turned out to be a devil, the American god has just become human".
[12]
Later he favourably compared a post-war America which "put its faith in the [intellectual elites]" over a Britain dedicated to the "masses".
At
The Sunday Telegraph
[
edit
]
Deputy editor (1961?76)
[
edit
]
In 1961 Worsthorne was appointed as the first deputy editor of
The Sunday Telegraph
; a job with fewer responsibilities than its title implies, and in his autobiography Worsthorne expressed some regret that he rejected an offer to become editor of
The Yorkshire Post
. In due course though, he became a leading columnist on his newspaper, taking a Conservative
High Tory
stance.
[13]
Worsthorne mourned the loss of the
British Empire
; he once argued that the public's acceptance of decolonisation was paralleled by their acquiescence to
socialism
.
Of the
Six-Day War
in 1967 he wrote an article titled "Triumph of the Civilised":
"Last week a tiny Western community, surrounded by immensely superior numbers of the underdeveloped peoples, has shown itself able to impose its will on the Arabs today almost as effortlessly as the first whites were able to do on the Afro-Asian native in the imperial heyday".
[14]
The following year, after
Enoch Powell
's speech in April 1968 on the perceived threat of non-white immigration, he argued that voluntary repatriation was the "only honest course".
[15]
In common with his friend the journalist
Paul Johnson
, he advocated the recolonisation of former colonies. In September 1991, he advocated "a new form of imperialism directed against the countries of the
Third World
" intended to create an "anti-barbarian alliance" to control the use of weapons by "primitive peoples." In his view nothing could be done about famines "without the advanced countries re-exerting political control ? i.e., a return to colonialism."
[16]
In 1965, he defended the
declaration of independence
by the white minority government of
Ian Smith
in
Rhodesia
. Worsthorne, in an article on the Sunday following the declaration, wrote:
Just as in the light of history
Lord North
has been judged wrong for refusing to give independence to the white slave owners in America, so will Mr
Harold Wilson
be for refusing to give it to the
white supremacists
of Southern Africa.
[17]
Worsthorne initially accepted Britain's entry into the
European Economic Community
. After the publication of the
Heath
Government's 1971
White Paper
, he wrote in a
Daily Telegraph
column that the "Europeans" deserved to win in the battle over British entry. "The sceptics have failed to produce an alternative faith", he argued.
[18]
By the time of the imminent
Single European Act
of 1992, however, he wrote in
The Sunday Telegraph
of 4 August 1992 that: "Twenty years ago, when the process began, ... there was no question of losing sovereignty. That was a lie, or at any rate, a dishonest obfuscation",
[
citation needed
]
in contradiction of the
Treaty of Rome
's commitment (1957) to an "ever closer union".
On the
BBC
's
Nationwide
programme
[19]
in March 1973, he was the second person on the nation's television to say "fuck", when asked if the general public were concerned that a Conservative Government minister
Lord Lambton
(his future father-in-law) had shared a bed with two call girls.
[20]
Worsthorne said in 2013: "There's a possibility it wasn't spontaneous. Apparently I took advice about it before in El Vino's. I don't remember. To the best of my knowledge, it was the
mot juste
."
[21]
The use of the swear word on television cost him the opportunity to edit
The Daily Telegraph
, as its then owner
Lord Hartwell
strongly objected to Worsthorne's comment
[2]
and was persuaded to bar him from appearing on television for six months. Worsthorne was, nevertheless, promoted to associate editor in 1976.
Associate editor (1976?86)
[
edit
]
Worsthorne argued in 1978 that the possible advance of "socialism" created an "urgent need ... for the state to regain control over 'the people', to re-exert its authority ..."
[22]
in the context of Britain "being allowed to spin into chaos".
[22]
He was critical of
Margaret Thatcher
's connection of domestic socialism with the form in the
Eastern Bloc
as he did not perceive this as being in line with the experiences of most of the population
[22]
(the "untalented majority").
[22]
He saw "the needs and values of the strong" as something which "should obsess the popular imagination" of "all healthy societies".
[22]
He defended the conduct of
Pinochet's
forces in the 1973
Chilean
coup, and wrote that he hoped the British army would launch a coup in Britain if a radical minority socialist government should ever enter power.
[23]
In 1978 Worsthorne did not see the potential for elements of his views (the end of socialism as an alternative in Britain) to be reflected in the forthcoming change of government (in what the political scientist
Andrew Gamble
came to call "the free economy and the strong state"). In the year before Thatcher's election he wrote that her government "is not going to make all that much difference [...] Her proposals amount in effect to very little: a controlled experiment in using market methods to improve the workings of social democracy".
[24]
"We put too much emphasis on Mrs. Thatcher forming a government", Worsthorne said on the
BBC
's election night programme late on 3 May 1979 as the results were about to come in. "It will really be Conservative ideas and Conservative policies that have formed a government. I don't think that she's articulated it very well."
[25]
He wrote an article "When Treason Can Be Right" in the
Sunday Telegraph
on 4 November 1979, in which he said that he would accept a request to work with the CIA to undermine a
Labour Government
in the UK. A quote from this article appears in some copies of the novel
A Very British Coup
, in which the main conspirator is named Sir Peregrine.
[26]
[13]
Editor and later responsibilities (1986?91)
[
edit
]
After
Conrad Black
's holding company gained 80% of the company stock in 1986, Worsthorne was finally able to become editor of
The Sunday Telegraph
, though in the end only for three years. In 1989 the
Telegraph
titles briefly became a seven-day operation under
Max Hastings
, with the bulk of
The Sunday Telegraph
edited by
Trevor Grove
. Worsthorne's responsibilities were reduced to the three comment pages by the editor-in-chief
Andrew Knight
, who sacked Worsthorne as editor over lunch in
Claridge's
.
[27]
[28]
The lofty ethos of the comment pages, with contributors including
Bruce Anderson
, was captured in their nickname, 'Worsthorne College'. This arrangement continued until September 1991 when Worsthorne's commitments were reduced to his weekly column.
In January 1990, Worsthorne was the defendant in a libel case brought by
Andrew Neil
and
The Sunday Times
, over a March 1989 editorial "Playboys as Editors" in
The Sunday Telegraph
which claimed that as a result of Neil's involvement with
Pamella Bordes
, he and
The Observer
'
s
Donald Trelford
(also involved with Bordes)
[29]
should not serve as editors of their titles.
[30]
(
The Independent on Sunday
, the other British quality Sunday, did not begin publication until January 1990.)
The Sunday Telegraph
had accused Neil of knowing that Bordes was a prostitute, which according to
Roy Greenslade
, he certainly did not know,
[30]
[31]
a fact which the
Telegraph
had accepted by the time of the court case, but still defended the two articles (one was not by Worsthorne) as fair comment.
[29]
[32]
Neil won the defamation case, being awarded damages of £1,000,
[33]
and his paper won its then cover price of 60p.
[30]
[34]
Earlier, in March 1988, Worsthorne had said Neil was a "brilliant editor", according to an entry in the diary of his friend,
Woodrow Wyatt
.
[35]
"The job of journalism is not to be scholarly", Worsthorne commented in 1989. "The most that can be achieved by an individual newspaper or journalist is the articulation of an intelligent, well-thought-out, coherent set of prejudices ? ie, a moral position."
[28]
Worsthorne received a
knighthood
in the
1991 New Year Honours
for services to journalism.
[36]
[13]
[37]
Views concerning homosexuality
[
edit
]
Worsthorne long criticised homosexual activity, castigating
Roy Jenkins
in particular in a 1982 editorial for his tolerance of "queers".
[38]
At the time of the debate over
Section 28
in January 1988 he appeared on
BBC Radio Three's
Third Ear
programme and persistently referred to gay men as "them", which caused the other interviewee,
Ian McKellen
, to
come out
by saying, "I'm one of them myself".
[39]
[40]
Worsthorne also said on the programme that not being gay was "a close-run thing" for some of his contemporaries.
[41]
In a 2011 article for the
London Evening Standard
, in reference to the 1930s, Worsthorne said "I think more boys would have gone gay if there hadn't been such a price to pay for it."
[42]
He later accepted the possibility of same sex marriages, believing they allow gay people to form "stable relationships" and argued Conservatives should embrace
political correctness
as a form of modern courtesy.
[43]
Worsthorne also claimed to have been seduced by Jazz musician George Melly.
[44]
[45]
Later life and career (1993?2020)
[
edit
]
In 1993, Worsthorne criticised the legacy of Margaret Thatcher's government; during the 1980s, his ambivalence to what he saw as her "bourgeois triumphalism" resulted in Worsthorne and the
Telegraph
being out of favour at
10 Downing Street
for some time.
[46]
In 2005 he argued that Thatcher's "utterly un-Tory ideological excesses left such a bad taste in the mouth of the English people as to make Conservatism henceforth unpalatable, except as a last resort in the absence of a less dire alternative".
[47]
He added: "For many of our people, life in the late 20th and in the 21st Century will be repulsive, brutal, and short as well."
[47]
His weekly article in
The Sunday Telegraph
was discontinued in 1997 during the editorship of
Dominic Lawson
, who said that Worsthorne's column had run its "natural lifespan".
[48]
From that point, Worsthorne became critical of Conrad Black's wife,
Barbara Amiel
, and Black himself for his newspapers' uncritical support for
Israel
and the foreign policies of the United States.
[49]
[50]
In 1997 he criticised the "great and irreversible changes in society" and said of a changing Britain that "this is not a country I recognise or am particularly fond of any more".
[51]
In 1999, Worsthorne said that only a federal Europe can stop the abolition of Britain, arguing that "the European Right (and Left for that matter) has no fear of the strong state, no hang-ups about individual liberty, which is why it is as willing to use the power of the state to curb the excesses of free speech and a free media, as of free enterprise or free trade".
[52]
In the early 2000s, in reference to nuclear weapons and the possibility of nuclear war during the
Cold War
, he said "would some historian emerging centuries later from the post-thermonuclear war Dark Ages have judged (pressing the button) morally justified, or so evil as to dwarf even the most monstrous inequities of
Hitler
,
Stalin
and
Mao
? ... How could we have believed anything so preposterous?".
[53]
In 2004 he released a book called
In Defence of Aristocracy
.
[54]
In a speech at the
Athenaeum Club
on 19 June 2006, titled "Liberalism failed to set us free. Indeed, it enslaved us", he criticised liberalism and aspects of
meritocracy
; as well as the "liberal triumphalism" of the "West's victory in the Cold War left liberalism as the only ism still backed by a world superpower".
[55]
In the 2000s he regularly contributed book reviews to the
New Statesman
, and was still a subscriber to the magazine in the 2010s. He told
Jason Cowley
of the
New Statesman
in a 2016 interview: "I've always thought the English aristocracy so marvellous compared to other ruling classes. It seemed to me that we had got a ruling class of such extraordinary historical excellence, which is rooted in England almost since the
Norman Conquest
."
[28]
In his Athenaeum Club speech in 2006 he noted the emergence of
David Cameron
in a positive light, seeing in him "the return of the English gentleman." By December 2013, having met Cameron only once, he was more sceptical: "Cameron fits into that gentlemanly tradition but he's very embarrassed and awkward about it."
[21]
Bruce Anderson observed of Worsthorne, "my dear friend and master", on his 90th birthday in December 2013: "Throughout his career, Perry defended conventions, while also defying them."
[2]
Private life and death
[
edit
]
Worsthorne married Claudie Bertrande Baynham (nee de Colasse)
[56]
in 1950, with whom he had a daughter (Dominique) and stepson (David Anthony Lloyd Baynham). Claudie died in 1990.
[57]
In 1991 he married the architectural writer
Lucinda Lambton
.
[58]
A portrait of the couple, by Denis Waugh, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[59]
As of 2013, the couple lived in
Buckinghamshire
. Worsthorne publicly advocated for Lambton and her sisters to inherit properties and fortunes from their father.
[54]
Worsthorne died on 4 October 2020 at the age of 96.
[60]
[61]
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[
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]
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Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
, Granta (US edition:
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
, 2000 The New Press)
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1977) "Boy Made Man", in
George MacDonald Fraser
(ed)
The World of the Public School
(pp. 79?96), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson /St Martins Press (US edition)
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1978) "Too Much Freedom", in
Maurice Cowling
(ed)
Conservative Essays
, Cassell
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1993)
Tricks of Memory: An Autobiography
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1999) "Dumbing Up" in Stephen Glover (ed),
Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism
Allen Lane pp. 115?24 [published in paperback as
The Penguin Book of Journalism: Secrets of the Press
Penguin 2000]
Other writings
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- Mary Wilson (et al.) (1977)
The Queen
, Penguin [contributor]
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1958)
Dare democracy disengage?
, Conservative Political Centre [pamphlet]
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1971)
The Socialist Myth
, Cassell
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1973)
Edwina Sandys
, Crane Kalman Gallery [exhibition catalogue introduction]
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1980)
Peregrinations: Selected pieces by Peregrine Worsthorne
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1987)
By the Right
, Brophy Educational [selections from his Sunday Telegraph columns]
- Peregrine Worsthorne (1988)
The politics of manners and the uses of inequality: Autumn address
, Centre for Policy Studies [pamphlet]
- Peregrine Worsthorne (2004)
In Defence of Aristocracy
HarperCollins [published in paperback as
Democracy Needs Aristocracy
Perennial 2005]
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