Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil

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rdf:langString Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (15 March 1936 – 13 April 2010) was a British television executive and a Labour member of the House of Lords. Descending from Latvian Jewish immigrants and educated at Stowe School and St John's College, Cambridge, Bernstein joined the Granada Group, the leisure and television company founded by his uncle, Sidney, and his father, . He was a director of the company, managing director of Granada Television in the 1970s, and Chairman of Granada Group 1979–96. Bernstein was a major contributor to the Labour Leader's Office Fund run by Lord Levy to finance Tony Blair's private office. He was created a life peer as Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, of in the County of West Sussex, on 15 May 2000. He was also active in the arts, serving on several governing bodies and trusts. He married Vanessa Anne Mills in 1962; they had a son and a daughter, and divorced in 1993. In 1995, he married Angela Mary Serota, the former wife of Sir Nicholas Serota. Bernstein is a cousin of Richard Stone, noted for his involvement in the Runnymede Trust and the Jewish Council for Racial Equality.