Harold Creighton

Who was Harold Creighton?

Harold Digby Fitzgerald Creighton was a British businessman and machine tool pioneer, who bought The Spectator magazine in 1967 for £75,000. Towards the end of the Second World War and after, he served a National Service commission in the Royal Armoured Corps of the British Army, based in Egypt and the Far East. He later joined a tin-smelting business in Malaya. and returned to Britain, where he eventually became Chairman of the Scottish Machine Tool Corporation of Glasgow. Although he had no prior experience as a journalist, he became Editor of The Spectator from 1973 to 1975, when he sold it. During his tenure, the magazine fervently opposed British entry into the European Economic Community.