The Spectator the ladder to high office in the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. Past editors include Boris Johnson (1999–2005) and other former cabinet members Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour, and Nigel Lawson. In late 2008, "Spectator Australia" was launched; the current editor is Rowan Dean. This offers 12 pages of "Unique Australian Content" (including a separate editorial page) in addition to the full UK contents. Readership of "The Spectator Australia" was revealed through a court case as being 3,000. "The Spectator"s founding editor, the Dundonian reformer Robert Stephen Rintoul, launched the paper in July 1828 with a first issue for the
William Rintoul Councils of the Chemical Society and Institute of Chemistry, the Safety in Mines Research Board, the Chemistry Research Board, the Research Committee of the Midland Railway and the British Standards Institution. From 1930, Rintoul was a member of the Council of the Faraday Society and in October 1934 was elected as its president. He died at home in Ardrossan, Scotland, after a prolonged illness. Rintoul married twice, first Lottie Edwards and two-year later Jess Isabel Robertson. He had two sons and a daughter from the first marriage. William Rintoul William Rintoul OBE (1870 – 25 August 1936) was a British