Name T. Utley Role Journalist | Party Ulster Unionist Party | |
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Died June 21, 1988, London, United Kingdom Education Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Books A Tory seer, Lessons of Ulster, What laws may cure | ||
Thomas Edwin 'Peter' Utley CBE (1 February 1921 – 21 June 1988) was a British High Tory journalist and writer.
Blind since childhood, Utley read History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge University with a double first. During the Second World War he was a Times leader writer and then worked for The Observer and The Sunday Times. In the early 1950s, he was Assistant Editor of The Spectator and then for twenty years, he was a leader writer for The Daily Telegraph, then columnist and Chief Assistant Editor. In 1987, he moved to The Times, working as the Obituary Editor and as a columnist.
In the general election of February 1974, Utley had stood unsuccessfully as the Ulster Unionist candidate for North Antrim, gaining a 21.01% of the share of the vote, but lost to Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionists.
Margaret Thatcher referred to him "the most distinguished Tory thinker of our time". He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1980. His son, Tom, is a columnist for the Daily Mail.