Andreas Whittam Smith

Sir Andreas Whittam Smith
First Church Estates Commissioner
In office
6 March 2002 – June 2017
Preceded byJohn Sclater
Succeeded byLoretta Minghella
Personal details
Born(1937-06-13)13 June 1937
Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
Died29 November 2025(2025-11-29) (aged 88)
ProfessionJournalist
Newspaper editor
Known forCo-founder of The Independent
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Sir Andreas Whittam Smith (13 June 1937 – 29 November 2025) was an English financial journalist, who was one of the founders of The Independent newspaper, which began publication in October 1986 with Whittam Smith as editor. He was a onetime president of the British Board of Film Classification.