Sir David Gilmour, 4th Baronet

David Gilmour (full name with title: The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, born November 14, 1952) is a Scottish author.

Life

He is the first son of Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 3rd Baronet and Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu -Douglas -Scott, youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Baccleuch. After the death of his father in 2007 he became the 4th Baronet. In 1975 he married Sarah Anne Bradstock, with whom he has four children. He went to Eton to school and studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He regularly writes book reviews 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 won several awards as an author: Duff Cooper Prize, in final selection of the Whitbread Prize, Saltire Prize, and Marsh Biography Award, Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography Prize 2003 Most of his books have the history of the countries and people around the Mediterranean on the topic..

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
  • The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, 2002
  • The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj, Pimlico; London, 2007
  • Looking for Italy, a history of people, cities and regions from ancient times to the present day Klett Verlag, Stuttgart, 2013 original: The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and Their Peoples (2011)
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