David Gilmour (historian)
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Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, FRSL (born 14 November 1952) is a British author.
Biography
Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, is the eldest son of Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 3rd Baronet, and Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch. HRH Princess Margaret was his sponsor at his christening.[1] He became the 4th baronet on the death of his father in 2007.
Gilmour was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
Gilmour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) and former Research Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is a historian and biographer.
He has also reviewed for 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 the New York Review of Books.[2]
Personal life
He married Sarah Anne Bradstock, only daughter of Michael Hilary George Bradstock on 27 September 1975. They have four children:
- Rachel Ann Caroline Gilmour (21 December 1977)
- Alexander Ian Michael Gilmour (19 February 1980)
- Katharine Victoria Mary Gilmour (1984)
- Laura Elizabeth Rose Gilmour (1985)
Works
- Dispossessed. The Ordeal of the Palestinians 1917-1980, (1980)
- Lebanon: The Fractured Country, (1983)
- The Transformation of Spain: from Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy,[3] (1985)
- The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, (1988, new edition by Eland published in 2007)
- The Hungry Generations, (1991)
- Cities of 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 Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (2002) (Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography Prize 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),[4]
- The British in India: A Social History of the Raj (2018)
See also
References
- ^ "Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Royal Godchildren". Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ^ Gilmour, David (1 December 2012). "The Last Leopard: A life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa". Eland Publishing. Retrieved 30 January 2019 – via Amazon.
- ^ Maxwell, Kenneth (29 December 1985). "Startling Normality". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- ^ David Gilmour (13 November 2012). The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples. ISBN 978-0374533601.
- 1952 births
- Living people
- British non-fiction writers
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- Presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association
- People educated at Eton College
- British male writers
- Sons of life peers
- Male non-fiction writers