Frank Johnson (journalist)

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Frank Robert Johnson (January 20, 1943–December 15, 2006) was an English journalist.

He was the editor of the conservative Spectator magazine from 1995 to 1999 and was a popular columnist for The Daily Telegraph. He had a particular reputation for his work as a parliamentary sketch writer, as which he was widely regarded as the most incisive and amusing commentator of his generation.

He married Virginia Fraser, the widow of Simon Fraser, Master of Lovat, in 1998 who survives him. He died after a seven-year fight against cancer.

He was a junior reporter at the North West Evening Mail in Barrow-in Furness from 1965 to 1966. One of the duties of news staff was to cover sport, which was an unwanted intrusion into the weekend. Johnson managed to get the score of a Barrow Rugby League game wrong and was cursed as a bloody fool by the editor on the Monday morning. However, he never had to cover sport again.

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Preceded by Dominic Lawson	Editor of The Spectator 1995–1999	Succeeded by Boris Johnson

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