writer historian of modern age
He is the first 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. He became the 4th baronet on the death of his father in 2007.
Gilmour was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
His Royal Highness Princess Margaret was his sponsor at his Christening. Gilmour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature) and former Research Fellow of Street Antony"s College Oxford. He is a historian and biographer and author of the following books:
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)
The French and their Revolution (ed), (1988)
Paris & Elsewhere (ed), (1998)
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (2002) (Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography Prize 2003)
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)
He has also reviewed for publications such as the London Review of Books, the Financial Times, Corriere della Sera, the Times Literary Supplement, the Spectator, the Independent on Sunday, and the New York Review of Books.
