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Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born 22 December 1923) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. He was educated at Stowe School, Peterhouse, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. Worsthorne spent the largest part of his career at the Telegraph newspaper titles, eventually becoming editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He left the newspaper in 1997 but remains an active contributor to various publications.
Peregrine Worsthorne was born the younger son of Alexander Koch de Gooreynd (himself the son of a Belgian banker) and Priscilla Reyntiens, an English Roman Catholic and the granddaughter of the 12th Earl of Abingdon. The family name was anglicised following the birth of Worsthorne's older brother Simon Towneley (later the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire from 1976 to 1996). The two boys were baptized Roman Catholic, but did not attend Catholic denominational school.
Peregrine Worsthorne married Claudie Bertrande Baynham (née Colame) in 1950, with whom he had a daughter (Dominique) and stepson. Claudie died in 1990. In 1991 he received a knighthood and married the architectural writer Lucinda Lambton. The couple live in Buckinghamshire. His daughter, Dominique, is married to the eminent potter Jim Keeling and they have five children and two grand-children.
The Vision Of The Peregrine Worsthorne In Fleet Street I lay down to sleep In the seediest journalist bar And in my sleep a vision I dreamed From afar In celestial mist made of light An angel that blinds mortal eyes This vision I knew knew no wrong Only right He took my hand and showed me things I'd never dreamed The veil blinding me was lifted And truth shone, a beacon beaming The vision said softly to me r"The people are becoming to free And if you want to sever the tea (?) Oh baby Peregrine is looking grim The economy is falling to pieces It seems quite hopeless Stand steadfastly by the friendly in exchange with free Broadcast calls for order and law Yet all shall be well, all shall be wellF" The Holy Ghost bid me be bold For wisdom that's weight out of old (?) Could will if it was spread among men Once again The vision departed me then And I awoke cold and distant I knew my mission
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