Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil

The Right Honourable
The Lord Bernstein of Craigweil
The Right Honourable The Lord Bernstein of Craigweil
Member of the House of Lords
	In office; 15 May 2000 – 13 April 2010
Personal details
Born	Alexander Bernstein; 15 March 1936
Died	13 April 2010 (aged 74)
Political party	Labour
Education	Stowe School
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Profession	television executive

Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (15 March 1936 – 13 April 2010^[1]) was a British television executive and Labour member of the House of Lords.

Life

Descended from Latvian Jewish immigrants^[2] and educated at Stowe School then St John's College, Cambridge,^[2] Bernstein joined the Granada Group, the leisure and television company founded by his uncle, Sidney, and his father, Cecil Bernstein. 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. Created a life peer as Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, of Craigweil in the County of West Sussex, on 15 May 2000,^[3] he was active in the Arts, serving on several governing bodies and trusts.^[4]

He married Vanessa Anne Mills in 1962; they had a son and a daughter, and divorced in 1993. In 1995, he married Angela Mary née Beveridge, formerly wife of Sir Nicholas Serota.