Sir David Gilmour, 4th Baronet

The Honourable. Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet (born 14 November 1952) is a Scottish author. 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. HRH Princess Margaret was his sponsor at his Christening. He became the 4th baronet on the death of his father in 2007.

Gilmour was educated Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.

Gilmour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). He is an author, writing:

• Lebanon: The Fractured Country,
• The Transformation of Spain from Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy,^[1]
• The Hungry Generations,
• Cities of Spain,
• The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,
• Curzon and
• The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford 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.

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Ian Gilmour	Baronet (of Liberton) 2007-	Succeeded by current

Links and References

1. ^ Startling Normality, (favourable) book review by Kenneth Maxwell, New York Times, 29 December 1985, accessed 29 June 2008

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

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