{"id":546,"date":"2020-11-02T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546"},"modified":"2020-11-11T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:05:28","slug":"peter-durrant-a-gentleman-of-fleet-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Peter Durrant – “A Gentleman of Fleet Street”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am very sorry to tell you that our friend and colleague Peter Durrant has died. You may know that Peter has not been well for some time and has been in and out of hospital in recent years.<\/p>\n

Despite this he has continued to be an enthusiastic supporter of the Press Club and attended functions whenever he could.<\/p>\n

Peter has been one of the longest serving members of the club as a member and board director, including in the role of club secretary. He was popular across other organisations too and was well known for his after dinner speeches \u201cby the Gentleman of Fleet Street\u201d.<\/p>\n

Peter has been hugely supportive to me personally during my chairmanship.<\/p>\n

We will miss Peter\u2019s always cheerful demeanour and can-do enthusiasm for the Press Club.<\/p>\n

Doug Wills, Chairman, London Press Club<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo caption: In 2017, the Press Club presented Peter (pictured above, second left) with a commemorative tankard to mark his many years of service to the Club<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am very sorry to tell you that our friend and colleague Peter Durrant has died. You may know that Peter has not been well for some time and has been in and out of hospital in recent years. Despite this he has continued to be an enthusiastic supporter of the Press Club and attended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nPeter Durrant - "A Gentleman of Fleet Street" - London Press Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Durrant - "A Gentleman of Fleet Street" - London Press Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am very sorry to tell you that our friend and colleague Peter Durrant has died. You may know that Peter has not been well for some time and has been in and out of hospital in recent years. Despite this he has continued to be an enthusiastic supporter of the Press Club and attended […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"London Press Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-02T19:04:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-11-11T19:05:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"336\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"richard.dymond\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"richard.dymond\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/fecaedad6b52f8cdc488c004db44dbe1\"},\"headline\":\"Peter Durrant – “A Gentleman of Fleet Street”\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-02T19:04:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-11-11T19:05:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"commentCount\":2,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\\\/media\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/11190352\\\/Peter-Durrant.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546\",\"name\":\"Peter Durrant - \\\"A Gentleman of Fleet Street\\\" - London Press Club\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\\\/media\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/11190352\\\/Peter-Durrant.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-02T19:04:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-11-11T19:05:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/fecaedad6b52f8cdc488c004db44dbe1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\\\/media\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/11190352\\\/Peter-Durrant.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\\\/media\\\/2020\\\/11\\\/11190352\\\/Peter-Durrant.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":336},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?p=546#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Peter Durrant – “A Gentleman of Fleet Street”\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/\",\"name\":\"London Press Club\",\"description\":\"Celebrating brilliant journalism\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/fecaedad6b52f8cdc488c004db44dbe1\",\"name\":\"richard.dymond\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/149e3a615948e969f87d92c78a6457c2703682bf52e5695331b7274f133aec6b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/149e3a615948e969f87d92c78a6457c2703682bf52e5695331b7274f133aec6b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/149e3a615948e969f87d92c78a6457c2703682bf52e5695331b7274f133aec6b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"richard.dymond\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/londonpressclub.co.uk\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Peter Durrant - \"A Gentleman of Fleet Street\" - London Press Club","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Peter Durrant - \"A Gentleman of Fleet Street\" - London Press Club","og_description":"I am very sorry to tell you that our friend and colleague Peter Durrant has died. You may know that Peter has not been well for some time and has been in and out of hospital in recent years. Despite this he has continued to be an enthusiastic supporter of the Press Club and attended […]","og_url":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546","og_site_name":"London Press Club","article_published_time":"2020-11-02T19:04:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-11-11T19:05:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":336,"url":"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"richard.dymond","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":false,"Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546"},"author":{"name":"richard.dymond","@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/fecaedad6b52f8cdc488c004db44dbe1"},"headline":"Peter Durrant – “A Gentleman of Fleet Street”","datePublished":"2020-11-02T19:04:34+00:00","dateModified":"2020-11-11T19:05:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546"},"wordCount":173,"commentCount":2,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546","url":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546","name":"Peter Durrant - \"A Gentleman of Fleet Street\" - London Press Club","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg","datePublished":"2020-11-02T19:04:34+00:00","dateModified":"2020-11-11T19:05:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/fecaedad6b52f8cdc488c004db44dbe1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg","width":600,"height":336},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=546#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Peter Durrant – “A Gentleman of Fleet Street”"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/","name":"London Press Club","description":"Celebrating brilliant journalism","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/fecaedad6b52f8cdc488c004db44dbe1","name":"richard.dymond","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/149e3a615948e969f87d92c78a6457c2703682bf52e5695331b7274f133aec6b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/149e3a615948e969f87d92c78a6457c2703682bf52e5695331b7274f133aec6b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/149e3a615948e969f87d92c78a6457c2703682bf52e5695331b7274f133aec6b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"richard.dymond"},"url":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?author=1"}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"large":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"et-pb-post-main-image":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant-400x250.jpg",400,250,true],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"et-pb-portfolio-image":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant-400x284.jpg",400,284,true],"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant-510x336.jpg",510,336,true],"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant-400x336.jpg",400,336,true],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false],"et-pb-image--responsive--phone":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant-480x269.jpg",480,269,true],"rt_custom":["https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2020\/11\/11190352\/Peter-Durrant.jpg",600,336,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":2,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"I am very sorry to tell you that our friend and colleague Peter Durrant has died. You may know that Peter has not been well for some time and has been in and out of hospital in recent years. Despite this he has continued to be an enthusiastic supporter of the Press Club and attended…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}