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 Nares 1818 and then of All Hallows, London Wall until his death in 1829. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803. He was married three times but had no children. In 1784 he published his first philological work, "The Elements of Orthoepy". In 1793 he was founding editor of the "British Critic" with the assistance of his lifelong friend, Rev. William Beloe. In 1822 he published his principal work, "Nares' Glossary", which was described in 1859, by Halliwell and Wright, as indispensable to readers of Elizabethan Literature. Robert Nares Robert Nares (9 June 1753, York – 23