Alex Renton

Alex Renton FRHistS (born 5 March 1961) is a British-Canadian journalist and the author of Blood Legacy,^[1] Stiff Upper Lip,^[2] and Planet Carnivore.^[3]

Early life and education[]

Renton was born in Toronto, Canada, on 5 March 1961, the oldest child of the politician Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry and the novelist and historian Alice Blanche Helen Fergusson. He was educated at Ashdown House, East Sussex and Eton College.

Career[]

As a journalist he has held staff jobs as a reporter and editor on British newspapers The Independent and the London Evening Standard. He has been a columnist for The Times and a Scotland-based correspondent for Newsweek magazine. He has won awards for foreign reporting, investigative journalism and food writing.^[4] He worked in Asia for Oxfam from 2001 to 2004.

Renton was presenter and reporter on Exposure – Boarding Schools, the Secret Shame, a 55-minute investigative documentary broadcast by Britain's ITV channel in February 2018.^[5]

Selected publications[]

• Stiff Upper Lip: secrets, crimes and the schooling of a ruling class (2017) ISBN 9781474600545
• Planet Carnivore (2014) ISBN 9781536643381
• Blood Legacy: reckoning with a family's story of slavery (2021) ISBN 9781786898869

Personal life[]

Renton married Ruth Valerie Burnett in 2002.^{[citation needed]} They have a son and daughter.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

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