Stanley Johnson (writer)

Stanley Johnson
Johnson in 2011
Member of the European Parliament for Wight and Hampshire East
In office 7 June 1979 – 14 June 1984
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Richard Simmonds
Personal details
Born	Stanley Patrick Johnson (1940-08-18) 18 August 1940 (age 83) Penzance, Cornwall, England
Citizenship	United Kingdom France[1]
Political party	Conservative
Spouses	Charlotte Fawcett ​ ​ (m. 1963; div. 1979)​ Jennifer Kidd ​ (m. 1981)​
Children	Boris Rachel Leo Jo Julia Maximilian
Parents	Wilfred Johnson (father) Irene Williams (mother)
Relatives	Ali Kemal (grandfather) Carrie Symonds (daughter-in-law) Amelia Gentleman (daughter-in-law)
Education	Exeter College, Oxford (BA) Columbia University
Stanley Johnson's voice Desert Island Discs, 18 May 2008 from the BBC programme Profile, 4 August 2012[2]

Stanley Patrick Johnson (born 18 August 1940) is a British-French^[3] author^[4] and former politician who was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wight and Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984. A former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission, he has written books on environmental and population issues. His six children include Boris Johnson, who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. He is a member of the Conservative Party.