Digby Anderson

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Digby Carter Anderson (born 25 May 1944) is a right-wing Christian conservative who directed of the right-wing think-tank, the Social Affairs Unit, from 1980 to 2004.

Biography

Anderson was born on 25 May 1944, the son of Donald Anderson and Elizabeth Nance Ethel Anderson. He attended St Lawrence College, a private boarding school in Kent with a strong Christian ethos. He studied a degree at the University of Reading and a PhD at Brunel University. [1]

Digby was senior lecturer at the Luton College of Higher Education (1965-1977) and then associate lecturer at Brunel University (1977-78). From 1977 to 1980 he was also a research fellow at the University of Nottingham. [2]

In 1980 he founded the Social Affairs Unit, which he directed until 2004. He was ordained as a deacon in 1985 and a priest in 1986, and has since been an honoury assistant priest St Saviour's in Luton. [3]

Anderson has worked as a columnist for a number of Britain's right-wing newspapers and weeklies. He has been a columnist at: The Times (1984-88), The Spectator (1984-2000), Sunday Telegraph (1988-89), Sunday Times (1989-90) and the National Review (1991-99).

Notes

  1. ANDERSON, Dr Digby Carter’, Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009; online edn, Nov 2009, accessed 14 Jan 2010
  2. Debrett's People of Today, Dr Digby Anderson [Accessed 14 January 2009]
  3. Debrett's People of Today, Dr Digby Anderson [Accessed 14 January 2009]