Peter Stanford

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Stanford
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Nov 23, 1961(1961-11-23)
Age	63
Birthplace	Macclesfield
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Macclesfield
Horoscope	Capricorn

Peter Stanford Biography

Peter Stanford is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on November 23, 1961 in Macclesfield, Macclesfield, United Kingdom. Born on 23 November 1961 in Macclesfield to Reginald and Mary Catherine Stanford, Peter Stanford was educated at St Anselm’s College, Birkenhead, an Irish Christian Brothers school. He later read history at Merton College, Oxford. He began his journalistic career in 1983 at the Catholic weekly newspaper The Tablet. He was the editor of The Catholic Herald from 1988 to 1992. His resignation, to concentrate on writing books, coincided with the publication of Catholics and Sex, which he co-authored with fellow journalist Kate Saunders. They later presented a four-part TV series with the same title on Channel 4. It won a bronze medal at the New York International Television and Film Festival in 1993.

Stanford also followed Lord Longford into the campaign for Moors Murderer Myra Hindley to be paroled from her life sentence, supporting the claims of those who argued that Hindley should be released from prison as she had rehabilitated and was no longer a threat to society. Hindley died in November 2002, after serving 36 years of her life sentence, as her original 25-year minimum term had been increased by a succession of Home Secretaries to 30 years and finally to a whole life tariff, and three appeals against this ruling in the High Court were rejected.

Stanford has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent on Sunday and has written a monthly column in The Tablet since

2003. He is a feature writer on the Daily Telegraph.

As well as his biography of Lord Longford, the subjects of his other biographies include the poet laureate C. Day-Lewis (2007), 1950s supermodel, peeress, and Catholic convert Bronwen Astor (2000), Cardinal Basil Hume, leader of the Catholic Church in England (1993) and Martin Luther (2017).

Subsequent TV and radio work includes presenting The Devil: An Unauthorised Biography (BBC1, 1996) and Pope Joan (BBC1, 1998), both based on his own books. He also presented the Channel 5 series The Mission (1997) and BBC Radio 2’s Good Morning Sunday (2003 and 2004) as well as being a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze (1996) and Vice or Virtue (1997).

Peter Stanford Net Worth

Peter Stanford is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Stanford 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peter James Stanford (born 1961) is an English writer, editor, journalist and presenter, known for his biographies and writings on religion and ethics. His biography of Lord Longford was the basis for the 2006 BAFTA-winning film Longford starring Jim Broadbent in the title role. A former editor of the Catholic Herald newspaper, Stanford is also director of the Longford Trust for prison reform.

Stanford married Siobhan Cross, a lawyer on 11 February 1995; the couple have two children.

In 2002, he joined with family and admirers of Lord Longford to establish the Frank Longford Charitable Trust, better known as The Longford Trust, which aims to continue the peer’s commitment to prison reform via an annual lecture, and annual prize as well as awarding scholarships for young former prisoners to go to university. He is also a patron of the CandoCo Dance Company.

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Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Peter Stanford celebrates birthday on November 23 of every year.