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Anthony Blond (Anthony Bernard Blond) was born on 20 March, 1928 in Sale, Cheshire, England, is a British publisher and author. Discover Anthony Blond's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 March, 1928
Birthday 20 March
Birthplace Sale, Cheshire, England
Date of death 27 February, 2008
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His wife is Charlotte Strachey (m. 1955-1960) Laura Hesketh (m. 1981)

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1928

Anthony Bernard Blond (20 March 1928 – 27 February 2008) was a British publisher and author, who was involved with several publishing companies over his career, including several he established himself, or in partnerships, from 1952.

Born in Sale, Cheshire, Blond was the elder son of Major Neville Blond CMG, OBE, who was a cousin of Harold Laski.

His mother was from a Manchester Sephardic Jewish family.

His parents divorced when Blond was a child and Blond was educated at Eton, where he was bullied.

He briefly served National Service in the Army, but growing pacifism soon led to him registering as a conscientious objector.

Having gained a History exhibition (scholarship) to New College, Oxford, he lost it by indulging too much in the distractions of an undergraduate life: "the joys of drink, people, parties, fancy waistcoats, foreign travel and falling in love – mostly with young men."

1952

After Oxford University, he briefly worked for a literary agent Raymond Savage, but set up his own firm in 1952, Anthony Blond (London) Ltd, in partnership with the future novelist Isabel Colegate He briefly joined Allan Wingate, but that publishing company folded in 1958, and with his own £5,000 set up a new firm.

Reported to have given the first chance to some 70 writers, Blond was particularly close to the novelist Simon Raven.

1955

In 1955, Blond married Charlotte, the daughter of John Strachey; the marriage lasted until 1960, and Charlotte eventually married the political journalist Peter Jenkins.

1962

Blond set up various publishing firms over the years, including Blond Educational in 1962, which he sold in 1969 to CBS, and he went into partnership with Desmond Briggs as Blond & Briggs in 1960, an informal arrangement that lasted until 1979 when Briggs retired and Harlech Television bought the company in 1979, retaining Blond as an advisor.

In a management buyout Blond regained control after two years, and established his last partnership, Blond, Muller and White.

1964

Blond was a Labour Party candidate in Chester at the 1964 general election and was also on the executive of the National Council for Civil Liberties.

1970

His friendship with James Goldsmith (and other members of the Clermont Club circle) survived Goldsmith's numerous writs to the magazine in the mid-1970s.

1981

After a long relationship with Andrew McCall, Blond, who was bisexual, married Laura Hesketh in 1981.

Blond also had a son, Aaron, by the author Cressida Lindsay.

1987

Century Hutchinson absorbed this firm in 1987.

Blond was an early director and publisher of satirical magazine Private Eye.

2004

His autobiography, Jew Made in England, was published in 2004.

Anthony Blond died aged 79 in hospital in Limoges, France, near the home he had shared with his wife for 25 years.

Blond was described in Michael Barber's Guardian obituary as "the last of the eponymous Jewish publishers whose chutzpah made publishing hum in the days before the conglomerates".