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
Robert Carter (editor) his second wife, Susan Nichols, in 1864. She was principal of the women's art school at Cooper Union in New York City, published handbooks of art and contributed to periodicals. He was the author of "A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England" (Boston, 1864), which passed through several editions. The 1888 edition has an introduction by Rossiter Johnson with biographical notes. He left unpublished memoirs, of which only the first volume was complete in manuscript. Robert Carter (editor) Robert Carter (February 5, 1819 Albany, New York – February 15, 1879 Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American editor, historian and