Stephen Glover (columnist)

The son of clergyman John Morton Glover (died 1979), a prebendary of Hereford Cathedral and rector of Broseley, Shropshire, and Helen Ruth, née Jones (died 1984),^[2][3][4] Glover was educated at Shrewsbury School and Mansfield College, Oxford.^[5]

Glover joined the Daily Telegraph in 1978 as a leader writer. He co-founded The Independent in 1986 with Andreas Whittam Smith and Matthew Symonds.^[6] All three had previously been journalists on the Telegraph.

Between 1986 and 1990, Glover was foreign editor of The Independent.^[6] The paper's early foreign correspondents included James Fenton, Alexander Chancellor, Patrick Marnham and Rupert Cornwell. In 1990, he became the founding editor of The Independent on Sunday.^[7]

In 1992, Glover helped Richard Ingrams launch The Oldie magazine with fellow journalists Auberon Waugh, Alexander Chancellor, and Patrick Marnham.^[8]

Glover has been a columnist for the London Evening Standard (1992–95), The Daily Telegraph (1995–97), The Spectator (1996–2005), The Independent (2005–12) and The Oldie (2014–23). He has written a column for the Daily Mail since 1998.

In 2004, Glover proposed a new compact upmarket newspaper with fellow journalists Francis Wheen and Frank Johnson.^[9] They sought a reported £15.4 million to launch The World,^[10] less than the funding for The Independent. The project did not get off the ground.

Glover is the author of Paper Dreams (1993),^[11] an account of the founding of The Independent, and editor of The Penguin Book of Journalism (1999).^[12] His first novel, Splash!, was published by Constable in 2017.^[13]

He married Celia Elizabeth Montague in 1982; they have two sons.^[14]