Donald Gilchrist Trelford was a British journalist and academic who was editor of The Observer newspaper from 1975 to 1993.
10 Facts About Donald Trelford
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Donald Trelford was a director of The Observer from 1975 to 1993 and chief executive from 1992 to 1993.
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Donald Trelford was educated at Bablake School, Coventry, where he was school captain from 1955 to 1956.
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Donald Trelford was a member of the Newspaper Panel of the Competition Commission from 2001 to 2007.
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Donald Trelford was a regular broadcaster and published books on snooker and cricket and co-authored a book on the 1993 Times World Chess Championship in London between Nigel Short and Garry Kasparov.
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Donald Trelford was interviewed by National Life Stories in 2007 for the 'Oral History of the British Press' collection held by the British Library.
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Donald Trelford had three children from his first marriage, to Jan Ingram, whom he married in or around 1963.
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Donald Trelford had another child from his second marriage, to Katherine Mark.
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In 2001, he married former television presenter Claire Bishop, and they had children in 2011 and 2014, when Donald Trelford was 73 and 76.
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Donald Trelford died from cancer in Mallorca, on 27 January 2023, at the age of 85.