Alexander Chancellor obituary

Endlessly curious writer and editor who gave the Spectator magazine its lively shape and toneAlexander Chancellor, who has died aged 77, was a journalist of grace and distinction whose work as a writer and editor enhanced several British magazines, including the Oldie, which he was editing when he took ill last week. Perhaps his greatest success came with his reinvention in the mid-1970s of the Spectator, a fading weekly to which he gave a lively shape and tone that has survived the half-dozen e