Nicholas Mosley

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Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet MC (born June 25, 1923) is a British novelist. He is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet and Lady Cynthia Mosley, a daughter of Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Diana Mosley (née Mitford) was his stepmother.

Born in London, Mosley was educated at Eton and Oxford and served in Italy during the Second World War, winning the Military Cross for bravery. He succeeded as the 3rd Baron Ravensdale in 1966 on the death of Mary Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale, his mother's sister. On the death of his father, he also succeeded to the baronetcy.

His father, Sir Oswald Mosley, founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932 and was an outspoken supporter of Hitler and Mussolini. Sir Oswald was arrested in 1940 for his antiwar campaigning, and spent the majority of World War II in prison. As an adult, Nicholas was a harsh critic of his father in Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933-1980 (1983), calling into question his father's motives and understanding of politics. Nicholas' work contributed to the 1997 Channel 4 television programme titled Mosley based on his father's life. At the end of the mini-series, Nicholas is portrayed meeting his father in prison to ask him about his national allegiance.

Nicholas Mosley has been married twice and is the father of five children. He lives in London. He is a half-brother of Max Mosley, President of the FIA. His heir is his son, Hon. Shaun Nicholas Mosley (b. 5 August 1949; m. 1978, Theresa Clifford).

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[edit] Select novels

Mosley has also written two volumes of family biography, Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 (1982) and Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933-1980 (1983) [1], and wrote the screenplay for Joseph Losey's 1973 film, The Assassination of Trotsky. His autobiography is called Efforts at Truth (1994).

[edit] Additional bibliography

  • Spaces of the Dark
  • The Rainbearers
  • Corruption
  • Meeting Place
  • Assassins
  • Catastrophe Practice
  • Imago Bird
  • African Switchback
  • The Life of Raymond Raynes
  • Experiece and Religion
  • Julian Grenville [1]

[edit] Criticism

  • Shiva Rahbaran (2007) Paradox of Freedom: A Study of Nicholas Mosley's Intellectual Development in His Novels and Other Writings (London: Dalkey Archive Press)
  • John O'Brian (1982) "It's like a story. Nicholas Mosley's impossible object." Review of Contemporary Fiction: 142-148.
  • John Banks (1982) "Slight-of-Language" Review of Contemporary Fiction: 118-123.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ This additional bibliography taken from a copy of Hopeful Monsters published in hardback by Secker and Warburg (London) in 1990


Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Mary Irene Curzon		 Baron Ravensdale
1966 – present		 Incumbent
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Oswald Mosley		 Baronet
(of Ancoats)
1980 – present		 Incumbent