Harry Mount occupation journalist
Henry Francis Mount (born 1971) is a British author and journalist who is editor of The Oldie magazine and a frequent contributor to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph.Early life
Harry Mount was born in 1971. His father, Sir Ferdinand Mount, Bt, FRSL, is also a journalist, and was an advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. One of his second cousins is the former British prime minister David Cameron.
Mount was educated at the North Bridge House School in London, followed by Westminster School, where he was an Honorary Scholar. He then read Ancient and Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first. At Oxford he was a member of the Bullingdon Club.Mount pursued postgraduate studies in Architectural History at the Courtauld Institute, receiving an additional MA degree; he then qualified as a barrister, but failed to secure a tenancy in chambers following his pupillage. He also briefly worked as a banker.Career
Harry Mount is editor of The Oldie, a British monthly magazine founded in 1992 by Richard Ingrams. Ingrams was succeeded in 2014 by Alexander Chancellor, and Mount took over after Chancellor's death in 2017.
Mount has worked as a leader writer and a New York correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. and now has a regular column at the same paper.He has written extensively for The Spectator since 2002, and for the Evening Standard since 2012.In 2022, he was appointed an Independent Member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission during Boris Johnson's final days in office. The appointment was criticized by Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner who called it "a display of pure arrogance by Boris Johnson, putting his own leading crony in charge of stopping cronyism in parliament".
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