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Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born 22 December 1923) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. He was educated at Stowe School, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Worsthorne spent the largest part of his career at the ''Telegraph'' newspaper titles, eventually becoming editor of ''The Sunday Telegraph''. He left the newspaper in 1997 but remains an active contributor to various publications. == Early life, school, and military service == Worsthorne was born the younger son of Alexander Koch de Gooreynd,〔Bruce Anderson ("Peregrine Worsthorne at 90: still colourful and indiscreet" ), telegraph.co.uk, 22 December 2013〕 the son of a Belgian banker, and Priscilla Reyntiens, an English Roman Catholic and the granddaughter of the 12th Earl of Abingdon. The family name was anglicised following the birth of Worsthorne's older brother Simon Towneley, who from 1976 to 1996 was the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.〔Adrian Room (''Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins'' ), Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, p.514, citing an article in ''Punch'', 26 October-1 November 1996 by Nigel Dempster〕 The two boys were baptized Roman Catholic, but did not attend Catholic denominational school. Worsthorne's mother divorced his father when he was five years old and she would soon marry Sir Montagu Norman, then the Governor of the Bank of England.〔 As a consequence of the split, the family butler effectively raised the two brothers for several years. "Unhappy as some of my formative experiences were, all in all, it was pretty good soil for someone wanting to go into public life", he would later recall, commenting on the tradition of public duty and service so prevalent in his family and his family's social circle.〔Peregrine Worsthorne (2004) ''In Defence of Aristocracy'', Harper Collin.〕 Worsthorne's biological father reverted his name to Koch de Gooreynd in 1937〔 and lived in Rhodesia for several years; Worsthorne discovered in the early 1960s that a half-brother was born during this period. He wrote that while at Stowe he was once seduced on the art room ''chaise-longue'' by George Melly, a fellow pupil who was later a jazz singer and writer,〔Worsthorne (1977) p.90-91〕 an accusation that Melly always denied. One other pupil, Colin Welch, did though become a lifelong friend. Welch also had a career in journalism, and persuaded Worsthorne to apply to Peterhouse, Cambridge.〔Richard West (Obituary: Colin Welch ), ''The Independent'', 29 January 1997〕 He began his studies at the college in 1942, having won an exhibition to read History. The master of Peterhouse at that time was the Conservative academic Herbert Butterfield. As was normal practice Worsthorne was called up for war service after three terms; he was rusticated during the last term. However, in army training with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry he injured his shoulder and after being admitted to a hospital in Oxford was able to persuade Magdalen College to admit him for a term. He saw active service in Phantom during the Italian campaign with the philosopher Michael Oakeshott,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What Can Be The Legal Reasons For Breaking Your Lease? - )〕 and was part of the occupying force in Hamburg for three months in 1945. Worsthorne returned to Peterhouse and took his degree a year early, gaining a Second. 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「Peregrine Worsthorne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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