William Cash

William Rupert Paul Cash (born 1 September 1966) is a journalist and author. Cash is the founder and editor-in-chief of cross-party politico magazine The Mace and The Westminster Index, a Who's Who of politics and public/foreign affairs. He was the founder of Spear's magazine and a director until 2020. Cash is also chairman of The Catholic Herald (UK and USA) and the Scottish Catholic Observer and is a columnist and writer for the publication. Early life The son of Sir William Cash, the young Cash attended St Anthony's School, Hampstead and Moor Park School before joining Downside School, moving for the sixth form to Westminster School. He then gained a place at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature. Career Between 1991 and 1999, Cash worked as Los Angeles correspondent for The Times and The Daily Telegraph. He also contributed to The Observer and The New Republic. An account of his years in California was written up in his first book, Educating William; Memoirs of a Hollywood Correspondent, in which Cash chronicled his adventures as a British journalist in America and his encounters with such figures as David Hockney, Elizabeth Taylor, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, and Antony Haden-Guest. The book was published in 1994 by Simon & Schuster.