Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale

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Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet MC FRSL (born June 25, 1923 in London , † February 28, 2017 there ) was a British peer and writer .

life and career

Mosley was born on June 25, 1923 to Cynthia Blanche Curzon and the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley . Diana Mosley was his stepmother. He attended Eton College and then studied at Balliol College of Oxford University . During World War II he was used in Italy, among other places, and was awarded the Military Cross .

Mosley inherited the title of Baron Ravensdale in 1966 from his aunt Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale . He inherited the title of baronet from his father in 1980. In later years he was a sharp critic of his father, about whom he wrote a two-volume biography.

Mosley lost his seat in the House of Lords in 1999 under the House of Lords Act 1999 . He lived in London until his death in February 2017.

family

Mosley was married twice and had five children. Max Mosley , President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), was his half-brother. His heir is his grandson Daniel Mosley, 4th Baron Ravensdale (* 1982).

Selected novels

  • Corruption (1957)
  • Accident (1965) (filmed in 1967 by Joseph Losey , with a screenplay by Harold Pinter under the title Accident - Incident in Oxford )
  • Impossible Object (1968)
  • Natalie Natalia (1971)
  • Serpent (1981)
  • Judith (1986)
  • Hopeful Monsters (1990) - won the Whitbread Book Award
  • Children of Darkness and Light (1995)
  • The Hesperides Tree (2001)
  • Inventing God (2003)
  • Look at the Dark (2005)

Mosley also wrote two biographical works about his father and the rest of the family:

  • Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 (1982)
  • Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933–1980 (1983)

In 1994 he published his autobiography.

more publishments

  • Spaces of the Dark
  • The Rainbearers
  • Corruption
  • Meeting place
  • Assassins
  • Catastrophe Practice
  • Imago Bird
  • African switchback
  • The Life of Raymond Raynes
  • Experience and Religion
  • Julian Grenville (republished by Persephone Books in 1999 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicholas Mosley: Obituary The Guardian , March 1, 2017

swell

predecessor Office successor
Irene Curzon Baron Ravensdale
1966-2017 		Daniel Mosley
personal data
SURNAME Mosley, Nicholas, 3rd Baron Ravensdale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosley, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2017
Place of death London