David Gilmour (historian)
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Sir David Gilmour, 4th Baronet
)
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
).
Biography
Sir David Gilmour is the eldest son of
8th Duke of Buccleuch. Princess Margaret was his sponsor at his christening.[1] He became the 4th Baronet on the death of his father in 2007. He is a first cousin of Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, one of the largest private landowners in Scotland, and Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland
.
Gilmour was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), former research fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and former senior research associate of Balliol College, Oxford.
He has also reviewed for publications such as 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 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)
- Whitbread Prize, Saltire Prize and Marsh Biography Award
- The French and their Revolution (ed), (1988)
- Paris & Elsewhere (ed), (1998)
- The Long Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography2003)
- 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.
- ISBN 978-0374533601.
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