Nicholas Coleridge

Appearing on television discussion programme After Dark with Bruce Oldfield in 1988

Nicholas David Coleridge CBE (born March 4, 1957 in London) is the Managing Director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes Vogue, Glamour, GQ, The World of Interiors, House & Garden, Conde Nast Traveller, Tatler, Easy Living, the Conde Nast Johansen hotel guides, Brides, Wired, Love and Vanity Fair. He has been a Vice President of Conde Nast International since 1999, and also oversees Conde Nast India which is based in Mumbai and Conde Nast France in Paris.

Biography

He is the great-great-great-great-great nephew of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,^[1] and son of David Coleridge, who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London in the late 1980s. He is the eldest of three brothers, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied Theology and History of Art.

He has written twelve books, both fiction and non-fiction, based largely upon either his professional life (The Fashion Conspiracy, Paper Tigers, With Friends Like These) or social novels (Godchildren, A Much Married Man, "Deadly Sins"). He has been Chairman of the PPA - the magazine publishers' association - and Chairman of the British Fashion Council. He was founding Chairman of Fashion Rocks, the fashion and rock music annual extravaganza, which has raised more than £3 million to date for the Prince's Trust charity. He was on the Advisory Board for the Concert for Diana, Wembley Stadium 2007. He has been a member of the Council of the Royal College of Art, and a member of the Trading Board of the Prince's Trust and is Deputy Chairman of The Campaign for Wool, 2009-. He is a Director of PressBof, the parent organisation of the Press Complaints Commission. As a journalist, he has been an irregular contributor to the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator and the Financial Times.

Personal life

He is married to the author and children's book reviewer Georgia Metcalfe with four children, Alexander, Freddie, Sophie and Tommy.They live in Chelsea, London, and in Worcestershire. The December 2007 issue of Conde Nast's World of Interiors magazine contains a feature on his country house, the 1709 Wolverton Hall in Worcestershire. His enthusiasms include India and Indian art, gardening, sunbathing, hillwalking and photography.

Awards

He was awarded the 1982 prize for British Press Awards Young Journalist of the Year when he was a columnist at the Evening Standard, and the Mark Boxer Lifetime Achievement Award for magazine journalism by the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2001.

Coleridge was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.^[2]

References

1. ^ Nicholas Coleridge Q&A at Orion Publishing Group
2. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59090. p. 7. 13 June 2009.

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