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Matthew d'Ancona was born on January 27, 1968 in Lewisham, London, United Kingdom. Son of John and Helen D’Ancona. Of Italian descent, his father came from Malta to Britain to study and ended up playing youth football for Newcastle United before becoming a civil servant. His father was a Maltese tennis champion, and his mother was an English teacher.
D'Ancona was educated at St Dunstan's College, an independent school for boys (now co-educational) in Catford in south London, where he was head boy. He also showed an early aptitude for journalism by winning an essay writing competition run by The Observer on the subject of the future of British industry. He went to Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, where he took the top First in Modern History for his year in 1989.
Matthew joined the magazine Index on Censorship, before proceeding to The Times as a trainee, then became an assistant editor (1990-1995). There he rose swiftly to become Education Correspondent and then Assistant Editor at the age of 26. He joined The Sunday Telegraph in 1996 as deputy comment editor and columnist, before becoming Deputy Editor. He wrote a weekly political column in The Sunday Telegraph for a decade. A former deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph, he was appointed editor of The Spectator in February 2006, a post he retained until August 2009. On 28 August 2009 it was announced that d'Ancona would be stepping down as editor to be replaced by Fraser Nelson.
D'Ancona is also the co-author of two books on early Christian theology, "The Jesus Papyrus" and "The Quest for the True Cross". He has written three novels, "Going East", "Tabatha's Code" and "Nothing to Fear". D'Ancona has also written several articles for the British political magazine Prospect. In January 2015, d'Ancona joined The Guardian as a weekly columnist.
Matthew wrote a weekly political column in The Sunday Telegraph for a decade, in which role he "is treated as the best insight into Cameronism by Conservative MPs".
Matthew has been a member of Beefsteak Club.
Matthew married Katherine Bergen, on May 13, 1995.
