Douglas Francis Jerrold

Douglas Francis Jerrold (Scarborough 3 August 1893 – 1964) was a British newspaper editor. As editor of The English Review from 1931 to 1935, he was a vocal supporter of fascism in Italy and of Catholic Nationalism in Spain. He was personally involved in the events of July 1936 when two British intelligence agents piloted an aircraft from the Canary Islands to Spanish Morocco, taking General Franco with them, and thereby helped to spark the military coup which ignited the Spanish Civil War.

Jerrold was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1893, the son of Sidney Douglas Jerrold and Maud Francis Goodrich. He was a descendant of the Victorian dramatist and writer Douglas William Jerrold, one of the founders of Punch.

Jerrold was at his core a Tory, and was hopeful of a career in politics, but he was critical of the alliance between the Conservative Party and big business, feeling that the party had become too nakedly capitalist. Such views were not popular with the party leadership, and in 1931 Jerrold's hopes of a parliamentary seat were dashed by Central Office.

Sidelined in mainstream politics, Jerrold became editor of The English Review, which he ran from 1931 to 1935, advocating "real Toryism as opposed to the plutocratic Conservatism represented by the official party" under the relatively liberal leadership of Stanley Baldwin. He was a romantic anti-capitalist and a devout Roman Catholic who was strongly attracted to the Fascism of Mussolini's Italy and the Catholic Nationalism of General Francisco Franco. In addition, he was an Imperialist, opposed to Britain's policy in India (which by this time had recognised the inevitability of self-rule), and in favour of a greatly strengthened executive government at home, if not outright dictatorship. Jerrold was, if not himself a fascist, undeniably sympathetic to fascism.

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