David Astor couldn’t help being born rich any more than most of the rest of us can help being coming into this world on the other side of the tracks. What made him different from most of the kidnapable classes was that he did some worthwhile things with his life. His good works ranged from transforming the Observer into one of the most influential English language newspapers in the world, helping to found Amnesty and Index on Censorship, and supporting a London refuge for battered women.
One would have thought the Guardian, present owners of the Observer, might have treated Jeremy Lewis’s superb biography of Astor with the respect it deserves. Instead we got Roger Lewis’s mean-spirited and error-strewn review (David Astor by Jeremy Lewis – how the Observer’s celebrated owner-editor coped with being so rich, 18 February).
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