Christopher Sykes (author)
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Christopher Hugh Sykes (born 17 November 1907, died 8 December 1986) was an English author. Born into a wealthy north of England land- owning family, he was the second son of the diplomatist, Sir Mark Sykes.
Sykes is especially remembered for his biography of his friend, Evelyn Waugh, and for his classic history of the British Mandate of Palestine, Crossroads to Israel. He served in the Second World War with the British Army, and after the war worked for many years in BBC radio.
He was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
[edit] Marriage and child
He married Camilla Georgiana Russell, daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell and Evelyn Dorothea Temple Moore, on 25 October 1936.
- Mark Richard Sykes (b. 9 June 1937), father by his second marriage of six children, including New York-based fashion writer and novelist Plum Sykes and her twin sister, Lucy Sykes (Mrs. Euan Rellie), and their brother Thomas (Tom) Sykes.
