SINCLAIR-STEVENSON, Christopher Terence

[colinp]

The publisher Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson has died - obit in the Telegraph  Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, old-school publisher who opposed the corporate behemoths – obituary

He m 1965 Hon Deborah Susan (1941-2022) d of Rt Hon Sir Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, 1st Baronet (cr 1960), Conservative MP and Minister (cr a life peer as Baron Broxbourne 1983)

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Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, old-school publisher who fought against corporate behemoths

‘Corporate publishing does not encourage editors’ enthusiasms and eccentricities’ so ‘an anodyne, homogenised culture has broken out’

Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, who has died aged 85, was once hailed by The Daily Telegraph as “the last of the great lunching publishers”; after three decades with Hamish Hamilton, he struck out in 1989 to launch his own firm, Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, in a valiant but doomed stand against the increasing corporatisation of publishing………

Christopher Terence Sinclair-Stevenson was born on June 27 1939, the son of George Sinclair-Stevenson, an officer in the Coldstream Guards and later a leading lawyer in Hong Kong, and his wife Gloria, née Gordon. Christopher inherited an Argentine peerage descended from a paternal great-great-uncle, but chose not to use the title, Baron Belgrado………….

He married, in 1965, Deborah Walker-Smith, daughter of the Conservative politician Lord Broxbourne. She died in 2022.

Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, born June 27 1939, died January 20 2025

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I must confess I am not as familiar as I should be with the Argentine peerage

[Richard R]

Death notice in the Times of 31 Jan 2025: SINCLAIR-STEVENSON Christopher on 20th January 2025. Born in 1939, Christopher had an interesting, successful and greatly admired life in the literary world. Devoted husband to Deborah, who died in December 2022. Together they were a much-loved couple by both their family and their many friends. Private cremation and a thanksgiving for their lives at a later date...