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Sir Bernard Ingham (born 21 June 1932) is a British journalist and former civil servant who is best known as Margaret Thatcher's chief press secretary while she was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. He was knighted in Mrs Thatcher's 1990 resignation honours list. Despite never having attended university himself〔Old Etonians and Red Princes: Tories and Labour are reverting to dynastic politics – Telegraph Blogs - note paragraph 3 for Ingham | http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/suecameron/100263841/old-etonian-and-red-princes-tories-and-labour-are-reverting-to-dynastic-politics/,〕 Ingham lectured in public relations at The University of Middlesex,.〔Ingham to teach `spin doctoring' course at university - News - The Independent | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ingham-to-teach-spin-doctoring-course-at-univer-1177780.html〕 He was also secretary to Supporters of Nuclear Energy (SONE)(1998-2007), a group of individuals who seek to promote Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom.〔SONE – Supporters of Nuclear Energy | Nuclear PowerSONE - Supporters of Nuclear Energy | Nuclear Power - Supporters of Nuclear Energy | Nuclear Power http://www.sone.org.uk/〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About SONE )〕 and he holds the position of Vice President of Country Guardian, an anti-wind energy campaign group.〔Campaign Country Guardian http://www.countryguardian.net/Campaign%20Country%20Guardian.htm〕 Ingham is also a regular panellist on BBC current affairs programme ''Dateline London''. ==Background== Ingham was educated at Hebden Bridge Grammar School, leaving at the age of 16 to join the ''Hebden Bridge Times'' newspaper.〔Hebden Bridge Times http://www.hebdenbridgetimes.co.uk/〕〔BBC - South Yorkshire - History - Miners Strike 1984: Sir Bernard Ingham| http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2008/06/13/miners_strike_bernard_ingham_interview_feature.shtml〕 He continued to write articles until 2013, as reported by the HEBDENBRIDGEweb.〔HebWeb News 2013: Bernard Ingham column comes to an end| http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/news/2013/039.html〕 He attended Bradford Technical College on day release as part of the studies required to qualify for the Certificate of Training for Junior Journalists, which he describes as being "taken rather seriously in early post-war Britain". He went on to work for the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'', the ''Yorkshire Post'', latterly as northern industrial correspondent (1952-1961), and ''The Guardian'' (1962-1967). While a reporter at the Yorkshire Post, Ingham was an active member of the National Union of Journalists and was vice chairman of the Leeds branch. He is also likely to have been the anonymous and aggressively anti-Conservative columnist "Albion" for the Leeds Weekly Citizen – a Labour Party organ – from 1964 to 1967. In 1967, he joined the Civil Service, working as a press and public relations officer and director of Information in various Government departments, including the Department of Energy, 1974–77, where he also served as Under-Secretary in the Energy Conservation Division, 1978-79.〔Janus: The Papers of Sir Bernard Ingham| http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FINGH;sib0=216〕 Ingham's father was a Labour Party councillor for Hebden Royd Town Council and he was himself a member of the Labour Party〔 until he joined the Civil Service. Ingham contested the then safe Conservative Moortown ward of Leeds City Council in the 1965 council elections for the Labour party, having been nominated by the Fabian Society.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bernard Ingham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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