Alex Renton

Alex Renton (born 5 March 1961) is a British journalist and the author of Stiff Upper Lip,[1] and Planet Carnivore.[2]

Early life and family

Renton was born in Toronto, Canada, on 5 March 1961, the oldest child of the politician Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry and the novelist and historian Alice Blanche Helen Fergusson. He was educated at Ashdown House, East Sussex and Eton College.

Renton married Ruth Valerie Burnett in 2002. They have a son and daughter.

Career

As a journalist he has held staff jobs as a reporter and editor on British newspapers The Independent and the London Evening Standard. He has been a columnist for The Times and a Scotland-based correspondent for Newsweek magazine. He has won awards for foreign reporting, investigative journalism and food writing.[3] He worked in Asia for Oxfam from 2001 to 2004.

Renton was presenter and reporter on Exposure – Boarding Schools, the Secret Shame, a 55-minute investigative documentary broadcast by Britain's ITV channel in February 2018.[4]

Selected publications

  • Stiff Upper Lip: secrets, crimes and the schooling of a ruling class
  • Planet Carnivore

References

  1. ↑ Andrew Anthony (1970-01-01). "Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class – review | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  2. ↑ "Bee Wilson reviews 'Farmageddon' by Philip Lymbery, with Isabel Oakeshott and 'Planet Carnivore' by Alex Renton · LRB 20 March 2014". Lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
  3. ↑ "Stiff Upper Lip review: A book that asks 'powerful questions that parents can't ignore' - Country Life". Country Life. 2017-04-25. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  4. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/02/19/boarding-schools-secret-shame-exposure-review-raw-emotional/


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