Ben Pimlott

Benjamin "Ben" John Pimlott (born July 4, 1945 in London ; † April 10, 2004 ibid) was a British historian , who was best known for his biographies .

Life

After attending Marlborough College , he studied at Worcester College, University of Oxford .

In the mid- 1970s he began his career as a writer of biographies and specialist books on British politics. He focused primarily on the Labor Party and wrote highly acclaimed biographies on Hugh Dalton and Harold Wilson , in addition he wrote an extensive biography on Queen Elizabeth II. For the biography of Labor politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, he received the 1985 Whitbread Book Award for the best biography.

His attempts to gain a foothold as a politician failed; in the general election in February and October 1974 he lost. In the British general election in 1979 he was defeated again. He then took a post at the London School of Economics and Political Science , from which he moved to Birkbeck College in 1981 , where he held a teaching position. From 1987 to 1988 he was also the political editor of the weekly New Statesman . In 1996 he was elected a member of the British Academy . Pimlott died of leukemia in 2004 .

His most famous publications include:

Peter Hennessy : Benjamin John Pimlott, 1945-2004 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 150 , 2007, p. 161-179 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

personal data
SURNAME	Pimlott, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pimlott, Benjamin John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	April 10, 2004
Place of death	London