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Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil

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Name
  
Alexander Baron

Role
  
Former Life peer


Parents
  
Cecil Bernstein

Cousins
  
Jane Wells

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Died
  
April 13, 2010, London, United Kingdom

Spouse
  
Angela Mary Serota (m. 1995), Vanessa Anne Mills (m. 1962–1993)

Uncles
  
Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein

Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (15 March 1936 – 13 April 2010) was a British television executive and a Labour member of the House of Lords.

Educated at Stowe School and St John's College, Cambridge, Bernstein joined the Granada Group, the leisure and television company founded by his uncle, Sidney, and his father, Cecil Bernstein. He was a director of the company, managing director of Granada Television in the 1970s, and Chairman of Granada Group 1979-96.

Bernstein was a major contributor to the Labour Leader's Office Fund run by Lord Levy to finance Tony Blair's private office. He was created a life peer as Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, of Craigweil in the County of West Sussex, on 15 May 2000. He was also active in the arts, serving on several governing bodies and trusts.

He married Vanessa Anne Mills in 1962; they had a son and a daughter, and divorced in 1993. In 1995, he married Angela Mary Serota, the former wife of Sir Nicholas Serota.

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Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil Wikipedia