Harry Mount
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Harry Mount was New York correspondent for the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph until he was fired in November 2006. He was previously deputy editor of the paper's comment pages. He is a son of the prominent journalist Ferdinand Mount and a cousin of the British Conservative Party leader David Cameron. Mount wrote a book about his year as a pupil barrister, and has written defending nepotism as a practice [1].
Before he went into journalism he read Classics at Oxford and then worked as a Latin tutor. At Oxford he was a member of the Bullingdon Club. It has been reported that at one of the club's annual meetings he was pushed down a hill in a Portaloo by a Hungarian count while George Osborne looked on.