Toby Harnden
| Toby Harnden | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 January 1966 |
| Occupation | Author, reporter, columnist |
Toby Harnden (born 14 January 1966) is an Anglo-American journalist and author. He has been Washington bureau chief of The Sunday Times since January 2013. He previously spent 17 years at The Telegraph, based in London, Belfast, Washington, Jerusalem and Baghdad, finishing as US Editor from 2006 to 2011, and was also US Executive Editor of Mail Online and US Editor of The Daily Mail for a year in 2012. He is the author of two books: Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (1999) and Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Defining Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan (2011). Dead Men Risen won the 2012 Orwell Prize for Books. He was reporter and presenter of the BBC Panorama Special programme Broken by Battle about suicide and PTSD among British soldiers, broadcast on July 15, 2013.
Born at Bowlands maternity home, in Portsmouth, Harnden grew up in Portsmouth, Harefield, Marple and Rusholme, Manchester. He attended Harrytown Comprehensive School in Bredbury, Cheshire and St Bede's College, Manchester. He entered Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in January 1985 and passed out the following August. He was awarded a First in Modern History from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in July 1988. At Oxford, Harnden was Junior Common Room President of Corpus Christi in 1987, succeeding David Miliband. Before becoming a journalist, Harnden was an officer in the Royal Navy, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant in 1994 after service ashore and at sea in the assault ships HMS Fearless, and HMS Intrepid, the minesweeper HMS Itchen, the destroyers HMS Manchester and HMS Edinburgh and the frigate HMS Cornwall. During his training he was an exchange officer with the Royal Norwegian Navy, helping to transport reindeer on troop landing craft. His final naval appointment was in the Ministry of Defence as Flag Lieutenant to the Second Sea Lord. In August 2009 he became an American citizen. He is divorced and is the father of Tessa Harnden (born 2007) and Miles Harnden (born 2009).
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