Editing Simon Jenkins (section)

{{Short description|English journalist and author}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[Sir]]
| name               = Simon Jenkins
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|FRSL}}
| image              = Simon Jenkins at Policy Fight Club (cropped).jpg
| alt                = 
| caption            = Jenkins in 2012
| birth_name         = Simon David Jenkins
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1943|6|10}}
| birth_place        = [[Birmingham]], England
| death_date         = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|1943|6|10}} -->
| education          = [[Mill Hill School]]
| alma_mater         = [[St John's College, Oxford]]
| death_place        = 
| nationality        = 
| awards             = [[Knight Bachelor]]
| other_names        = 
| known_for          = 
| occupation         = Journalist, author
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| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage |[[Gayle Hunnicutt]]|1978|2009|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage |Hannah Kaye|2014}}
}}
}}

'''Sir Simon David Jenkins''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FSA|FRSL}} [[Learned Society of Wales|FLSW]] (born 10 June 1943) is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor. He was editor of the <!-- Only acquired the London prefix in 2009. -->''[[Evening Standard]]'' from 1976 to 1978 and of ''[[The Times]]'' from 1990 to 1992.

Jenkins chaired the [[National Trust]] from 2008 to 2014. He currently writes columns for ''[[The Guardian]]''.