Alex Renton

Alex Renton
The Honourable; Alex Renton
Born	March 5, 1961; Toronto, Canada
Education	Ashdown House; Eton College
Occupation	Journalist
Parents	Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry (father); Alice Fergusson (mother);
Website	alexrenton.com

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

Early life and education

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.

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 ISBN 9781474600545
Planet Carnivore ISBN 9781536643381

Personal life

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

References

Andrew Anthony (1 January 1970). "Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class – review | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
"Bee Wilson reviews 'Farmageddon' by Philip Lymbery, with Isabel Oakeshott and 'Planet Carnivore' by Alex Renton · LRB 20 March 2014". Lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
"Stiff Upper Lip review: A book that asks 'powerful questions that parents can't ignore' - Country Life". Country Life. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
Hogan, Michael (19 February 2018). "Boarding Schools: The Secret Shame – Exposure review: a raw and emotional exploration of systematic failure of abuse victims" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.

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[1] Andrew Anthony (1 January 1970). "Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class – review | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2017.

[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 11 April 2017.

[3] "Stiff Upper Lip review: A book that asks 'powerful questions that parents can't ignore' - Country Life". Country Life. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.

[4] Hogan, Michael (19 February 2018). "Boarding Schools: The Secret Shame – Exposure review: a raw and emotional exploration of systematic failure of abuse victims" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.