Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson was born on 17 December 1956 and is a British journalist.
16 Facts About Dominic Lawson
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Dominic Lawson was educated at Eton College, an all-boys independent boarding school, for one year, which he "absolutely hated".
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Dominic Lawson then completed his schooling at Westminster School, an independent school.
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Dominic Lawson had three sisters: the TV chef and writer Nigella Dominic Lawson; Horatia; and Thomasina.
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Dominic Lawson's father was Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989.
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Dominic Lawson was married to Jane Whytehead from 1982 until 1991.
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Dominic Lawson has been married to Rosa Monckton, a Roman Catholic, the daughter of the 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, since 1991.
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Dominic Lawson joined the BBC as a researcher, and then wrote for the Financial Times.
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Dominic Lawson added to the damage caused, by claiming that the opinions expressed by Ridley were shared by the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
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From 1995 until 2005, Dominic Lawson was editor of The Sunday Telegraph.
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Dominic Lawson is a strong chess player and is the author of The Inner Game, on the inside story of the 1993 World Chess Championship.
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Dominic Lawson was involved in the organisation of the 1983 World Chess championship semi-final.
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Richard Tomlinson wrote in 2001 that Dominic Lawson had worked with the intelligence agency MI6, but Dominic Lawson denied being an agent.
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Boris Johnson, then editor of The Spectator, wrote a pseudonymous article on the subject which Dominic Lawson found "intensely annoying" because of the potential increase in the threat to his newspaper's foreign correspondents.
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However, in 1998, Dominic Lawson acknowledged that articles written in 1994, under a false name with a Sarajevo dateline while he was editor of the Spectator magazine, were "probably" written by an MI6 officer.
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In 2016, Dominic Lawson attributed the result of the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum to the legalisation of same-sex marriage.