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
Gordon Rintoul elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Gordon Rintoul Gordon Rintoul (born 29 May 1955) CBE FRSE is Director of National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rintoul was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1955 and was educated at Allan Glen's School, a science-orientated school in the city. He studied physics at the University of Edinburgh and received a PhD from the University of Manchester in the history of science and technology. In 1984, he was appointed as curator of the Colour Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Between 1987 and 1998, he was Director of Catalyst, a museum in