David Richard Thorpe - World Literary Awards

Profile

Gender: Male
Born: 1943-03-12
Died: 2023-02-02 age 79
Nationality: British
Languages: English
Religion: Unknown

Career

Occupations: historian, biographer, teacher
Active Years: 1980-2023
Affiliations: Charterhouse School, Churchill College, Cambridge, St Antony's College, Oxford, Brasenose College, Oxford
Memberships: Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)
Nominations: Orwell Prize shortlist (2010, Supermac)

Education

Institution	Faculty	Department	Degree	Period	Country
Fettes College	—	History	—	—	United Kingdom

Fettes College

History

Country: United Kingdom

Edinburgh

Awards

Year	Award	Work	Category	Organization	Result
2011	Marsh Biography Award	Supermac: A Life of Harold Macmillan	—	English Speaking Union	受賞

Marsh Biography Award

2011

Work: Supermac: A Life of Harold Macmillan

Organization: English Speaking Union

Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Marsh Biography Award 1 appearances

Edition 13 (2011) Winner

Works

Major Works

The Uncrowned Prime Ministers

1980 Biography

Examines careers of Austen Chamberlain, Lord Curzon, and R. A. Butler.

politicsprime ministers

Selwyn Lloyd

1989 Biography

Official biography of Selwyn Lloyd.

politicsbiography

Alec Douglas-Home

1996 Biography

Official biography of Alec Douglas-Home.

politicsprime minister

Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon, 1897–1977

2003 Biography

Official biography of Anthony Eden, restoring his reputation post-Suez.

politicsSuez Crisis

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan

2010 Biography

Biography of Harold Macmillan, praised as the best of a post-war PM.

politicsprime minister

Bibliography

The Uncrowned Prime Ministers (1980)
Selwyn Lloyd (1989)
Alec Douglas-Home (1996)
Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon 1897–1977 (2003)
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan (2010)
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose Vol. 1, 1944–1979 (editor, 2018)
Who Wins, Who Loses: The Journals of Kenneth Rose Vol. 2, 1979–2014 (editor, 2019)

Style & Themes

Literary Style: detailed biographical stylepolitical history focus
Recurring Motifs: underestimated politiciansprime ministerial rehabilitation

Legacy

British historian and biographer of three mid-20th century UK Prime Ministers: Eden, Douglas-Home, and Macmillan, restoring their reputations.

Academic Societies

Royal Historical Society