Andreas Whittam Smith

Andreas Whittam Smith
First Church Estates Commissioner
In office
6 March 2002 – June 2017
Succeeded byLoretta Minghella
Personal details
Born (1937-06-13) 13 June 1937 (age 87)
Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
ProfessionJournalist
newspaper editor

Sir Andreas Whittam Smith, CBE (born 13 June 1937)[1] is an English financial journalist, who was one of the founders of The Independent newspaper, which began publication in October 1986 with Whittam Smith as editor. He is a former president of the British Board of Film Classification.

  1. ^ The Making of the Independent, Michael Crozier, G. Fraser, 1988, p. 9