Harold Digby Fitzgerald Creighton (11 September 1927-3 July 2003) was a British businessman and machine tool pioneer, who bought The Spectator magazine in 1967 for £75,000.[1] Towards the end of the Second World War and after, he served a National Service commission in the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army, based in Egypt and the Far East. He later joined a tin-smelting business in Malaya (now known as Malaysia). and returned to Britain, where he eventually became Chairman of the Scottish Machine Tool Corporation of Glasgow. Although he had no prior experience as a journalist, he became Editor of The Spectator from 1973 to 1975, when he sold it. During his tenure, the magazine fervently opposed British entry into the European Economic Community.[2]
Creighton was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), at Hertford Heath, near to the county town of Hertford in Hertfordshire.
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| Preceded by George Gale |
Editor of The Spectator 1973 – 1975 |
Succeeded by Alexander Chancellor |