Veteran journalist, editor and author who wrote about finance, the arts and cricket
In 1956, when the writer and journalist Stephen Fay was just 18 years old, he was invited, along with other recipients of the Beaverbrook scholarship for children of journalists, to lunch by the lord himself. Beaverbrook asked them for their reaction to the Suez crisis. Stephen was the only one to say that it was an extremely bad idea.
Despite his tender years, he already refused to be intimidated, a characteristic that served him well in six decades of writing and editing.