Gerald Warner

James Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie
Born	1945
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Occupation	Journalist
Political party	Conservative

James Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie (born 1945) is a Scottish newspaper columnist, author, broadcaster, commentator, and former policy adviser to Michael Forsyth when he was Secretary of State for Scotland.

A graduate of the University of Glasgow (Honours MA in Medieval and Modern History), he has been a columnist and social diarist (i.e. society editor) for The Sunday Times (of London), a columnist and editorial (i.e. leader) writer for Scotland on Sunday, and a leader writer for the Scottish Daily Mail. Although his legal name in the United Kingdom is "James Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie", he does not appear to use this formal style in his journalistic writing, preferring "Gerald Warner".

In the 90s Conservative government of Prime Minister John Major, he left journalism to become Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland, the British cabinet minister responsible for Scottish affairs. He had previously been, in 1974, an unsuccessful Parliamentary candidate.

He is the author of seven books, primarily on specialised historical subjects, curiosities, and folklore. His official history of the Scottish Tory Party included a foreword by Margaret Thatcher. He has spoken of his latest book, Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries (written with co-author Stephen Klimczuk), as a "robust and skeptical look at the kind of esoteric nonsense celebrated in The Da Vinci Code." It covers various sites and societies favoured by conspiracy theorists and unexplained mystery enthusiasts, including Rosslyn Chapel, Area 51, Skull and Bones, Opus Dei, the Esalen Institute, Mount Weather, Heinrich Himmler's Wewelsburg Castle, Montecristo island and Disneyland's Club 33.

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