John Stapleton

John Martin Stapleton (born 24 February 1946) is a British award-winning journalist and presenter with fifty years experience in newspapers and television. He now works as a freelancer with various media outlets.

Early life

Stapleton was born in Oldham, Lancashire. His father Frank was secretary of the local Co-operative and his mother, June was a part-time junior school teacher. Stapleton was educated at Diggle Primary School and Hulme Grammar School, Oldham and St John's College of Further Education, Manchester where he did "A" levels. He did not go to university, but started working as a trainee reporter at the age of seventeen on the now defunct Eccles and Patricroft Journal. He was later indentured to the Oldham Evening Chronicle for three years before moving onto the Daily Sketch first in Manchester and then London.

Career

Stapleton is a former Royal Television Society News Presenter of the Year His career began on local newspapers in North West England, before becoming a staff reporter on the Daily Sketch in Fleet Street. His first job in television was as a researcher and script writer on This is Your Life presented by the Eamonn Andrews at the time.

John Stapleton (disambiguation)

John Stapleton is an English journalist.

John Stapleton may also refer to:

John Stapleton (MP)

John Stapleton (11 April 1816 - 25 December 1891) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1852 and 1874.

Stapleton was the fourth son of Thomas Stapleton, of Carlton Hill, Yorkshire and his wife Maria Juliana Gerard, daughter of Sir Robert Gerard, bt. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Göttingen and Berlin. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1833, but later moved to the Middle Temple. He went on the Northern circuit.

At the 1852 general election, Stapleton was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick upon Tweed but was unseated on petition. He was elected in 1857 but lost the seat in 1859. At the 1868 general election Stapleton was re-elected for Berwick and held the seat until his defeat at the 1874.

Stapleton died at the age of 75.

Stapleton married Frances Dorothea King, second daughter of Edward Bolton King, of Chadshunt, Warwickshire. They had three sons and four daughters.

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