12 Facts About Alex Renton

Alexander James Torre Renton FRHistS is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Alex Renton is the author of several historical and investigative books, including Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class and Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery.

Alexander James Torre Renton was born in Toronto, Canada, the oldest child of the politician Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry and the novelist and historian Alice Blanche Helen Fergusson.

Alex Renton was educated at Ashdown House, East Sussex; Eton College; Brighton College; and the University of Exeter, where he studied English.

Since 2024, Renton has been a Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University.

Alex Renton has been a columnist for The Times and a Scotland-based correspondent for Newsweek magazine.

Alex Renton has won awards for foreign reporting, investigative journalism and food writing.

Alex Renton worked in Asia for Oxfam from 2001 to 2004.

Alex Renton has said that many prestigious schools go to great lengths to protect their reputation rather than victims.

Alex Renton has said that boarding schools are "simply unsafe" until the law on safeguarding in residential institutions for the vulnerable is overhauled, and that his is the first in about seven generations of his family not to send their children to boarding school.

The BBC Radio 4 series In Dark Corners produced by BBC Scotland and presented and co-written by Alex Renton, won the British Broadcasting Press Guild's Radio Programme of the Year award in 2023.

Alex Renton is the author of several historical and investigative books, including:.