Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham

The Lord Moore of Etchingham
Moore speaking at Policy Exchange in 2013
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
13 October 2020
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Charles Hilary Moore

(1956-10-31) 31 October 1956 (age 68)
Hastings, Sussex, England
Political partyNone (non-affiliated)
Spouse
Caroline Baxter
(m. 1981)
Children2
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
OccupationJournalist
Known forAuthorised biographer of Margaret Thatcher

Charles Hilary Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham (born 31 October 1956) is an English journalist and the chairman of The Spectator. He is a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, and The Sunday Telegraph; he still writes for all three. He is known for his authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher,[1] published in three volumes (2013, 2016 and 2019). Under the government of Boris Johnson, Moore was given a peerage in July 2020, thus becoming a member of the House of Lords.

  1. ^ Charles Moore "Radical, egotistical, romantic, innocent – the real Margaret Thatcher", The Daily Telegraph, 19 April 2013