David gilmour historian biography
- The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, FRSL (born 14 November 1952) is a British writer and historian.
- The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, FRSL is a British writer and historian.
- David Gilmour is one of Britain's most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers.
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David Gilmour (writer)
Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
- Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940)
- Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
- G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942)
- Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
- Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944)
- Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945)
- Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946)
- Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947)
- Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948)
- Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
- Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950)
- Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost (1951)
- David Walker, The Pillar (1952)
- David Walker, Digby (1953)
- Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954)
- Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955)
- Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956)
- Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957)
- Colin McDougall, Execution (1958)
- Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
- Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970)
- Mordecai Richler, St. U
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David Gilmour
Praise for The British in India
Hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Glorious, human, colourful, teeming and spicy. If you read just one book on imperial India, let it be this
John Lewis-Stempel, Sunday Express
An exceptional book. It evokes those animated crowd scenes painted by William Frith, full of people going about their workaday lives, or enjoying themselves. ... David Gilmour's canvas is British India and he provid ...
Lawrence James, The Times
Hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Glorious, human, colourful, teeming and spicy. If you read just one book on imperial India, let it be this
John Lewis-Stempel, Sunday Express
An exceptional book. It evokes those animated crowd scenes painted by William Frith, full of people going about their workaday lives, or enjoying themselves. ... David Gilmour's canvas is British India an
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David Gilmour (historian)
British author and baronet
For other people named David Gilmour, see David Gilmour (disambiguation).
The HonourableSir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, FRSL (born 14 November 1952) is a British writer and historian. The son of the Conservative politician Ian Gilmour, he is the author of numerous historical works, including award-winning biographies of Lord Curzon (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography).[citation needed]
Biography
Sir David Gilmour is the eldest son of Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 3rd Baronet, and Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch. Princess Margaret was his sponsor at his christening.[citation needed] He became the 4th Baronet on the death of his father in 2007. He is a first cousin of Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, one of the largest private landowners in Scotland, and Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland.[citation needed&#
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