The Honourable. Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet (born 14 November 1952) is a Scottish

Scotland

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 author

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. He is the first son of Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar

Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar

Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, PC, was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was styled Sir Ian Gilmour, 3rd Baronet from 1977, having succeeded to his father's baronetcy, until he became a life peer in 1992. He served as Secretary of State for...

, 3rd Baronet, and Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch

Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch

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. HRH Princess Margaret

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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 was his sponsor at his Christening

Infant baptism

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. He became the 4th baronet

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 on the death of his father in 2007.

Gilmour was educated Eton

Eton College

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 and Balliol College, Oxford

Oxford

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.

Gilmour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

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 (FRSL). He is an author, writing:

• Lebanon
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  : The Fractured Country,
• The Transformation of Spain from Franco
  Francisco Franco
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   to the Constitutional Monarchy
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  ,
• The Hungry Generations,
• Cities of Spain
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  ,
• The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , was a Sicilian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento...
  
  ,
• Curzon and
• The Long Recessional
  Recessional
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  : The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
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  (Elizabeth Longford
  Elizabeth Longford
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   Historical Biography Prize 2003)

Personal

He married on 27 Sept 1975 Sarah Anne Bradstock, only daughter of Michael Hilary George Bradstock. They have four children, three daughters Rachel, Katharine, and Laura, and a son, Alexander Ian Michael Gilmour, born 19 Feb 1980.

Links and References

• The Peerage
• Roots and Leaves
• List of Old Etonians born in the 20th century#1950s

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