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Keith Kyle (4 August 1925,
Sturminster Newton,
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of , ...
– 21 February 2007, London) was a British writer, broadcaster and historian.
Early life
Kyle was educated at
Bromsgrove School
Bromsgrove School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England. Founded in 1553, it is one of the oldest public schools in Britain, and one of the 14 founding members of the Headmaste ...
and
Magdalen College
Magdalen College (, ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete. Today, it is the fourth wealthiest college, with a financial endowment of £332.1 million as of 2019 and one of the s ...
,
Oxford University
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, where his period as an undergraduate was broken by war service.
Career
He worked for the
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North American Service as a talks producer, succeeding
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British politician, writer and diarist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. A member of the Labour Party, ...
[Jeremy Harding "Right, Left and Centre", ''London Review of Books'', 6 August 2009, p34] in 1951. In 1953, he joined ''
The Economist
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'' and was sent to Washington; later he was reporter for the BBC's ''
Tonight
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'' programme from 1960, specialising in coverage of Africa
[David Wedgwood Ben]
"Keith Kyle"
''The Independent'', 13 March 2007 and based in Nairobi.
''Daily Telegraph'', 22 February 2007 He also contributed to ''
The Observer
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'' and ''
The Spectator
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It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...
'' at this time, and covered
Rhodesia in the period before the
Smith
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People
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government's
UDI.
From the late 1960s, Kyle began an academic career, while remaining active as a journalist for some years. He was a Fellow of the
John F Kennedy Institute of Politics at
Harvard (1967–68) and joined
Chatham House
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in 1972, where he remained for 30 years.
[Sandra Harri]
"Obituary: Keith Kyle"
''The Guardian'', 27 February 2007 In the late 1980s,
St Antony's College, Oxford invited him to become an associate member. His history, ''
Suez
Suez ( ar, السويس '; ) is a seaport city (population of about 750,000 ) in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez (a branch of the Red Sea), near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same bou ...
: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) first appeared in 1991,
and is regarded as definitive in almost all the cited articles. His other books include ''The Politics of the Independence of Kenya'' (Macmillan) in 1999 and his posthumous autobiography ''Keith Kyle: Reporting the World'' appeared in June 2009, published by
I.B.Tauris.
Parliamentary candidacies
Kyle had a chequered career as a parliamentary candidate. He had hoped to become a Conservative candidate in 1956, but government policy on Suez dissuaded him. He was an unsuccessful
Labour Party candidate in
St Albans in
1966, for
Braintree in both 1974 elections and was the
Northampton South SDP candidate in
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
.
References
External links
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British male journalists
People educated at Bromsgrove School
People from Sturminster Newton
1925 births
2007 deaths
20th-century English historians
Chatham House people
Social Democratic Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
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