Background
ZIEGLER, Philip was born on December 24, 1929 in Ringwood, Hampshire. Son of Colin Louis Ziegler and Dora Ziegler (nbe Barnwell).
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ZIEGLER, Philip was born on December 24, 1929 in Ringwood, Hampshire. Son of Colin Louis Ziegler and Dora Ziegler (nbe Barnwell).
Born in Ringwood, Hampshire, Ziegler was educated at Street Cyprian"s School, Eastbourne, and went with the school when it merged with Summer Fields School, Oxford. He attended Eton College and New College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Jurisprudence with highest honours before joining the British Foreign Service.
In the Foreign Service, he served in Laos, Pretoria and Bogotá, as well as with the Delegation to North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Paris. In 1967 he retired from the Foreign Service, and joined the publishers Collins. Originally intending to be a novelist, he began a career as biographer with his life of Talleyrand"s lover, the Duchess of Dino.
He was editor in chief at Collins from 1979-1980.
He has written in various journals and newspapers including The Spectator, The Listener, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and History Today.
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Royal Society of Literature.
Married 1st Sarah Collins in 1960 (deceased), 2nd Mary Clare Charrington in 1971.
