Background
Stott, Richard Keith was born on August 17, 1943 in Oxford, England. Son of Fred Brooks and Bertha Stott.
Stott, Richard Keith was born on August 17, 1943 in Oxford, England. Son of Fred Brooks and Bertha Stott.
Born in Oxford, he attended Clifton College in Bristol.
He started his journalistic career in 1963 with the Buckinghamshire Herald and was the only journalist to interview the driver of the train that pulled the hijacked one off the main line after the infamous Great Train Robbery of that year. Stott had great political convictions and is the only man to have edited two United Kingdom national newspapers twice: The Daily Mirror from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1991 to 1992, and The People from 1984 to 1985 and again from 1990 to 1991. One of the few journalists who could call Robert Maxwell"s bluff during the time he was editors
Stott also edited the now defunct Today newspaper from 1993 to 1995.
Among many interests he enjoyed buying paintings by modern artists and building a fine collection of books His brother-in-law was the comedian and artist Dave Allen, whom he greatly admired.
His memoir, Dogs and Lampposts, was published in 2002 by Metro. Stott spent much of his last year editing Alastair Campbell"s book The Blair Years before his death in London, aged 63, of pancreatic cancer.
Married Penelope Anne Scragg, April 18, 1970. Children: Emily, Hannah, Christopher.