1. Quentin Richard Stephen Letts was born on 6 February 1963 and is an English journalist and theatre critic.
21 Facts About Quentin Letts
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Quentin Letts has written for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and The Oldie.
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On 1 September 2023, Quentin Letts returned to the Daily Mail.
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The son of Richard Francis Bonner Quentin Letts and Jocelyn Elizabeth, he was born and raised in Cirencester and for a while attended Oakley Hall Preparatory School, which was run by his father.
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Quentin Letts boarded at The Elms School in Colwall on the Herefordshire side of the Malvern Hills.
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Quentin Letts's education continued at Haileybury College, before he won a scholarship to Bellarmine College, Kentucky, which he left after a year.
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Quentin Letts graduated with an MA degree in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
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Quentin Letts wrote a parliamentary sketch for The Daily Telegraph for four years until 2001.
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Quentin Letts then joined the Daily Mail appointed by the newspaper's editor, Paul Dacre, to resuscitate the paper's own parliamentary sketches, a feature which Quentin Letts has said had remained dormant at the title since 1990.
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Quentin Letts was the first person to write the Mails pseudonymous Clement Crabbe column, launched in 2006, and has been the publication's theatre critic since 2004, again at Dacre's suggestion.
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Marr was recovering from a stroke he suffered in 2013, and Quentin Letts later apologised for the remarks.
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Quentin Letts was invited to present an edition of the BBC current affairs programme Panorama broadcast on 20 April 2009, which dealt with the growing criticism of the influence of health and safety on various aspects of British life.
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Quentin Letts has been a regular guest on BBC programmes, such as Have I Got News For You and This Week.
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Quentin Letts's non-fiction book, Patronising Bastards: How The Elites Betrayed Britain, was published in October 2017 and is an attack on the British ruling elite.
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Letts' comments were widely criticised on Twitter, including by actors Samuel West and Robert Lindsay; the latter said that "Quentin Letts is not a reviewer offering any sensible critique so unlike a critic of stature should be ignored".
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Quentin Letts responded with a further article in the Daily Mail in which he argued that his critique was not racist, as he did not claim that it was Wringer's race which made him unsuitable for the role, but rather criticised what he saw as a culture in British theatre of casting actors based on their race rather than their talent or suitability for a role.
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In July 2019, in a review of David Hare's production of Peer Gynt at the National Theatre, London, Quentin Letts made an unfavourable comparison between English actor Oliver Ford Davies' "fruity purr" to "the whining Scottish accents".
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Quentin Letts is an Anglican, and in his writing, he has frequently criticised more modernised policies of the Church of England.
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Quentin Letts's uncle was the publisher and first chairman of National Heritage, John Letts.
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Quentin Letts has a particular liking for old hymns by Sankey and Moody especially one titled ' Pentecostal fire is burning.
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Quentin Letts was placed into administration on 29 March 2019.