Harold Creighton, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Harold Creighton

British businessman

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1927

Date of Death: 03-Jul-2003

Profession: editor, journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.In 1947, he was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps and served in Egypt and the Far East.
After completing his National Service, he 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. In 1967, bought The Spectator, a politically conservative, weekly magazine.
In 1973, he took over as editor although he had no prior experience as a journalist, after sacking the incumbent editor, George Gale.
He edited the magazine until 1975, when he sold it for £75,000 to Henry Keswick.
During his tenure, the magazine fervently opposed British entry into the European Economic Community.