Background
Harry Mount was born in 1971. His father Sir Ferdinand Mount, Bt, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is also a journalist, and was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
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Mount was educated at the North Bridge House School in London, followed by the Westminster School and then went up to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Ancient and Modern History. He graduated with a First (Master of Arts (Oxfordshire)).
Career
Mount pursued postgraduate studies in Architectural History at the Courtauld Institute receiving an additional Master of Arts degree. He then qualified as a barrister, but failed to secure a tenancy in chambers following his pupillage. Mount worked as a leader writer and a New York correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.
He attracted some mild comment in 2004 for refusing to review David Mitchell"s widely acclaimed Cloud Atlas for The Sunday Telegraph because he could not finish it, finding it "unreadable."
Mount resides in Kentish Town.
Membership
At Oxford he was a member of the Bullingdon Club.
