16 Facts About Tom Stacey

Tom Stacey FRSL was a British novelist, publisher, screenwriter, journalist and penologist.

At Eton College Tom Stacey became a fourth-generation successive Tom Stacey pupil at Eton, where he was a solo treble, the founder of Wotton's Society in the field of philosophy, editor of the weekly Eton College Chronicle, winner of the Essay Prize, and House Captain.

Tom Stacey was staff writer at the Lilliput Magazine, as a colleague of Patrick Campbell and Maurice Richardson.

Tom Stacey then became feature writer and foreign correspondent for Picture Post.

Tom Stacey joined The Sunday Times as roving correspondent and chief foreign correspondent, with a worldwide brief, covering the dismantling of the British Empire globally, and major conflict zones of the period, and interviewing many heads of state.

Tom Stacey then moved to the London Evening Standard, where he was a columnist and roving correspondent, while standing for Parliament.

In October 1954, in Uganda, Tom Stacey co-founded the Bakonzo Life History Research Society, which, throughout a tempestuous campaign demanding his consistent involvement, was to emerge as the vehicle of a recognised Kingdom of Rwenzururu 55 years later.

In March 1963, Tom Stacey was urgently invited by Milton Obote, Prime Minister of newly independent Uganda, to mediate between the Government and secessionist Bakonzo tribe in the Ruwenzori Mountains while furloughed from the Sunday Times.

Tom Stacey contested the parliamentary seat of Hammersmith North for the Conservatives in 1964, and was defeated; and of Dover in 1966, where, again defeated, he increased the Party vote against a landslide to Labour nationally.

In 2001, Tom Stacey ascended to the Ruwenzori glaciers following the defeat of the ADF guerilla invaders from the Congo.

In 2009, Tom Stacey was hailed by the approximately 800,000 people of the Ruwenzori Mountains as "catalytic agent" in the recognition by the Government of Uganda of their ethno-cultural entity, Rwenzururu, with its King who is in remand in Kampala for allegedly inciting violence, rebellion and calling for independence from Uganda, in clashes reported to leave over 50 people dead.

Tom Stacey died from pneumonia on 24 December 2022, at the age of 92.

Tom Stacey wrote his literary work in response to the inner clamour of each work to be written.

Tom Stacey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1977.

Tom Stacey's awards include the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and the Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award.

Profiles of Tom Stacey have been published in the Observer Magazine and elsewhere.