Harry Mount

Harry Mount is a British writer, journalist and former barrister who works for Reader's Digest. [ [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/the-feral-beast-847295.html "Feral Beast: Get ready for the fantasy schoolmaster." "The Independent"] , 15 June 2008]

He is a son of the journalist and former advisor to Margaret Thatcher Ferdinand Mount and a cousin of the British Conservative Party leader David Cameron.

Mount read Classics at Oxford where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club. [ [http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2006wk0/Features/smashing_job_chaps:_exclusive_inside_look_at_bullingdon_club "Smashing job chaps: Exclusive inside look at Bullingdon club", "The Oxford Student"] , 12 January 2005]

Mount has also written three books. "My Brief Career" is an account of his time as a pupil in a barristers' chambers. His second book, "Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That" was about Latin, in the mould of Sellar and Yeatman's 1066 and All That. A forthcoming book, "A Lust for Window Sills" is a popular guide to British architecture.

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