David Gilmour, 4th Baronet

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Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet (born November 14, 1952 ) is a Scottish author.

Life

He is the first son of life peer Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar and Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch . On September 27, 1975, he married Sarah Anne Bradstock, with whom he has three daughters and a son. When his father died in 2007, he inherited his subordinate title of Baronet , of Liberton and Craigmillar in the County of Midlothian.

He was at Eton College educated and studied at Balliol College of Oxford University . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . He regularly reviews books for the London Review of Books , Financial Times , Corriere della Sera , Times Literary Supplement , Spectator, Independent on Sunday, and New York Review of Books . He has won several author awards: the Duff Cooper Prize, finalized Whitbread Prize, Saltire Prize and Marsh Biography Award, Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography Prize 2003. Most of his books are about the history of the countries and people around the Mediterranean Sea. His work In Search of Italy (2013) is a “book that is knowledgeable and easy to read, fed by as much local knowledge as it is reading”, said Johan Schloemann .

Works

  • Dispossessed. The Ordeal of the Palestinians 1917-1980. Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1980.
  • Lebanon: The Fractured Country. rev. Sphere Books, London, 1984.
  • The Transformation of Spain from Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy. Quartet Books, London 1985.
  • The Hungry Generations (novella). Sinclair-Stevenson, London 1991.
  • Cities of Spain. Dee, Chicago 1992.
  • The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Quartet Books, London 1988.
  • Curzon , 1994. ISBN 0-333-64406-9 .
  • The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling. 2002.
  • The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. Pimlico, London 2007
  • In search of Italy, a history of people, cities and regions from ancient times to the present . Translation Sonja Schumacher. Klett-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2013 Original: The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples. 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 75, Easter 2013, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Maike Albath: David Gilmour: A Brit helps to understand the Italians. In: welt.de . April 15, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 .

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predecessor Office successor
Ian Gilmour Baronet, of Liberton and Craigmillar
2007 – present 		current title holder
personal data
SURNAME Gilmour, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gilmour, Sir David Robert, 4th Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish author
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1952