Sir David Gilmour, 4th Baronet
The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet (born 14 November 1952) is a British author. He is the first 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 and author of the following books:
- Dispossessed. The Ordeal of the Palestinians 1917-1980, (1980)
- Lebanon: The Fractured Country, (1983)
- The Transformation of Spain: from Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy,[2] (1985)
- The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, (1988)
- The Hungry Generations, (1991)
- Cities of Spain, (1992)
- Curzon (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)
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.[3]
Personal
He married on 27 Sept 1975 Sarah Anne Bradstock, only daughter of Michael Hilary George Bradstock. They have four children- three daughters Rachel, Katharine, and Laura, and a son, Alexander Ian Michael Gilmour, born 19 Feb 1980.
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ian Gilmour |
Baronet (of Liberton and Craigmillar) 2007- |
Succeeded by current |
Links and References
- ↑ http://users.uniserve.com/~canyon/godchildren.htm#Margaret
- ↑ Startling Normality, (favourable) book review by Kenneth Maxwell, New York Times, 29 December 1985, accessed 29 June 2008
- ↑ , Amazon.co.uk's About the Author