Marsh Biography Award
1 appearances
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Edition 2 (1989) Winner
Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet
デイヴィッド・ロバート・ギルモアだいよだんしゃく
Deividdo Robāto Girumāchiyon-dai yon-danshaku
Aliases:
David Gilmour (historian) / Sir David Gilmour
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1952-11-14
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Christianity
Career
- Occupations
- historian, writer
- Active Years
- 1980-2018
- Affiliations
- Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), St Antony's College, Oxford (former research fellow), Balliol College, Oxford (former senior research associate)
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
- Nominations
- Whitbread Prize shortlist (Curzon), Saltire Prize shortlist (Curzon), Marsh Biography Award shortlist (Curzon)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eton College | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Balliol College, Oxford | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
Eton College
Country:
United Kingdom
Balliol College, Oxford
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Duff Cooper Prize | Curzon: Imperial Statesman | — | — | winner |
| 2003 | Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography | The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling | — | — | winner |
Duff Cooper Prize
1994
Work:
Curzon: Imperial Statesman
Result:
winner
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
2003
Work:
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Duff Cooper Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 39 (1994) Winner
Works
Major Works
Curzon: Imperial Statesman
1994 BiographyBiography of Lord Curzon.
Imperialism
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
2002 BiographyBiography of Rudyard Kipling.
ImperialismLiterature
Bibliography
- Dispossessed: The Ordeal of the Palestinians 1917–1980 (1980)
- Lebanon: The Fractured Country (1983)
- The Transformation of Spain: from Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy (1985)
- The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1988)
- The Hungry Generations (1991)
- Cities of Spain (1992)
- Curzon: Imperial Statesman (1994)
- The French and their Revolution (ed, 1988)
- Paris & Elsewhere (ed, 1998)
- The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (2002)
- 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)
- The British in India: A Social History of the Raj (2018)
Legacy
British historian and writer specialising in the British Empire, particularly the Raj in India. Winner of several literary prizes.
Trivia
- Son of Conservative politician Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar.
- Princess Margaret was his sponsor at christening.
- 4th Baronet Gilmour.