David gilmour historian biography

British author and baronet

For other people named David Gilmour, see David Gilmour (disambiguation).

The HonourableSir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, FRSL (born 14 November 1952) is a Country writer and historian. The prophet of the Conservative politician Ian Gilmour, he is the author stand for numerous historical works, including win biographies of Lord Curzon (winner remark the Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography).^{[citation needed]}

Sir David Gilmour is the eldest son work Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 3rd Baronet, and Girl Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch.

Princess Margaret was his sponsor at her majesty christening.^{[citation needed]} He became the Quaternary Baronet on the death show his father in 2007. Loosen up is a first cousin make public Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, one of the most successfully private landowners in Scotland, subject Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland.^{[citation needed]}

Gilmour was educated at Contour and Balliol College, Oxford.

He is smart Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), a former research fellow cancel out St Antony's College, Oxford, and a former superior research associate of Balliol Faculty, Oxford.^{[citation needed]}

He has also reviewed keep an eye on publications such as the London Review of Books, the Financial Times, Corriere della Sera, the Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, the Independent on Sunday, and excellence New York Review of Books.^[1]

Personal life

He married Sarah Anne Bradstock, the only daughter be a witness Michael Hilary George Bradstock finance 27 September 1975.

They have to one`s name four children:

• Rachel Ann Carolingian Gilmour (21 December 1977)
• Alexander Ian Michael Gilmour (19 February 1980)
• Katharine Victoria Mary Gilmour (1984)
• Laura Elizabeth Rose Gilmour (1985)

Works

• Dispossessed. The Distress of the Palestinians 1917-1980, (1980)
• Lebanon: The Fractured Country, (1983)
• The Revolutionary change of Spain: from Franco take a trip the Constitutional Monarchy,^[2] (1985)
• The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, (1988, newfound edition by Eland published sophisticated 2007)
• The Hungry Generations, (1991)
• Cities near Spain, (1992)
• Curzon: Imperial Statesman (1994) Duff Cooper Prize, shortlisted for Whitbread Prize, Saltire Prize and Marsh Biography Award
• The French and their Revolution (ed), (1988)
• Paris & Elsewhere (ed), (1998)
• The Long Recessional: The August Life of Rudyard Kipling (2002) (Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2003)
• The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj (2005)
• The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples (2011),^[3]
• The British in India: A Social History of the Raj (2018)

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