Francis Beckett

Francis Beckett is an English author, journalist, biographer, and contemporary historian. He has written biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. He has also written on education for the New Statesman, The Guardian and The Independent and is the editor of Third Age Matters, the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age. Beckett has been described as an Old Labour romantic by Guardian associate editor Michael White.

Francis Beckett was born in 1945 in Chenies, exactlymiles from the centre of London, because his father, John Beckett, just released from wartime internment because of his fascist past, was under a form of house arrest, unable to live withinmiles of the capital or to travel more than five miles away from his home. His mother Anne Cutmore was the common law wife of John Beckett until 1963 when he finally divorced his legal wife Kyrle Bellew.

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