Mary Wakefield (journalist)
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12 April 1975
Mary Wakefield | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield 12 April 1975 |
| Education | Wycombe Abbey |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | The Spectator |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
| Father | Humphry Wakefield |
| Website | spectator.co.uk/writer/mary-wakefield |
Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield (born 12 April 1975)[1][2] is a British journalist, and a columnist and commissioning editor for The Spectator.
Wakefield is the daughter of the antique and architectural expert Sir Humphry Wakefield, 2nd Baronet and the Hon. Katherine Mary Alice, daughter of Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, a colonial administrator in Africa, a younger son of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer.[3] She has two brothers; Maximilian Wakefield (born 1967), an entrepreneur and racing car driver,[4][1] and Jack Wakefield (born 1977), former director of the Firtash Foundation and an art critic who writes for The Spectator and other publications.[5][6] A third brother, William Wakefield, was born in 1975 and died in infancy.[4]
Wakefield was educated at the independent girls' boarding school Wycombe Abbey and at the University of Edinburgh (MA).[7]
Career
Wakefield has worked at the weekly magazine The Spectator for twenty years[when?], since Boris Johnson was editor, and was commissioning editor in 2017,[8] assistant editor from 2001[9] and then deputy editor.[10] She also writes for the magazine as a columnist,[11] and has written for The Sun, Daily Mail, The Telegraph and The Times.[12]
In 2015, following an online petition, Wakefield apologised and amended an article she had written for The Spectator in which she described an 18-year-old who had recently died in a moped crash as a "thuggish white lad".[13]
