Dominick Harrod

Dominick Roy Harrod (21 August 1940 – 4 August 2013) was a British journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's economic correspondent in the 1970s and 1980s.

Early life Born in Oxford, England, his parents were Sir Roy Harrod, the economist and biographer, and the former Wilhelmine Cresswell, known as "Billa" Harrod, who became a campaigner for the preservation of historic churches in Norfolk.

Career After graduating from Oxford, Harrod joined The Sunday Telegraph, writing the "Albany column" under Kenneth Rose. He later joined The Daily Telegraph, spending three years in the United States from 1966 as its Washington correspondent. Harrod was struck by a policeman's baton while covering the 1968 Chicago riots for the Telegraph. Harrod was made redundant following changes under the Director-General of the BBC John Birt, but later participated in several budget reports for the broadcaster.

Harrod spent a year as the city editor of the Yorkshire Post, and in 1994 became programme director of St George's House, a private institution for discussion founded by the Duke of Edinburgh. He retired from St George's House in 1998.

Harrod wrote two books on economics for a general readership, The Politics of Economics (1978) and Making Sense of the Economy (1983). In 2000, he wrote War, Ice and Piracy: The Remarkable Career of a Victorian Sailor about the Arctic exploration by his great-great-great-uncle, Samuel Gurney Cresswell, in the 1850s.

A member of the Garrick Club, Harrod was married to Christina Hobhouse from 1974 until her death in 1996; the couple had a son.