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 Labour member of the House of Lords.

Life

Descended from Latvian Jewish immigrants^[2] and educated at Stowe School then St John's College, Cambridge,^[2] Bernstein joined the Granada Group, the leisure and television company founded by his uncle, Sidney, and his father, Cecil Bernstein. 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. Created a life peer as Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, of Craigweil in the County of West Sussex, on 15 May 2000,^[3] he was active in the Arts, serving on several governing bodies and trusts.^[4]

He married Vanessa Anne Mills in 1962; they had a son and a daughter, and divorced in 1993. In 1995, he married Angela Mary née Beveridge, formerly wife of Sir Nicholas Serota.

References

^ Jessica Elgot "Labour peer Lord Bernstein dies", The Jewish Chronicle (website), 13 April 2010
^ ^a ^b 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" Archived 23 December 2012 at archive.today,What Next? no.25, 2003