Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil
Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (15 March 1936 – 13 April 2010)[1] was a British television executive and a Labour member of the House of Lords.
Educated at Stowe School and St John's College, Cambridge,[2] Bernstein joined the Granada Group, the leisure and television company founded by his uncle, Sidney, and his father, . He was a director of the company, managing director of Granada Television in the 1970s, and Chairman of Granada Group 1979–96.
Bernstein was a major contributor to the Labour Leader's Office Fund run by Lord Levy to finance Tony Blair's private office. He was created a life peer as Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, of in the County of West Sussex, on 15 May 2000.[3][4] He was also active in the arts, serving on several governing bodies and trusts.
He married Vanessa Anne Mills in 1962; they had a son and a daughter, and divorced in 1993. In 1995, he married Angela Mary Serota, the former wife of Sir Nicholas Serota. Bernstein is a cousin of Richard Stone, noted for his involvement in the Runnymede Trust and the Jewish Council for Racial Equality.
References[]
- ^ Jessica Elgot "Labour peer Lord Bernstein dies", The Jewish Chronicle (website), 13 April 2010
- ^ Obituary: Lord Bernstein of Craigweil, Daily Telegraph (website), 18 April 2010
- ^ "No. 55859". The London Gazette. 26 May 2000. p. 5821.
- ^ David Osler "Taking It On Trust",What Next? no.25, 2003
- 1939 births
- 2010 deaths
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- British Jews
- British television executives
- Labour Party (UK) life peers
- People educated at Stowe School
- Jewish British politicians
- 20th-century British businesspeople
- Life peer stubs