- Ferdinand Mount
Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet (born
2 July 1939 ), known simply as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer and novelist,columnist for "The Sunday Times" and commentator on politics, and Conservative Party politician. He was head of the policy unit in10 Downing Street in 1982-83, during the time whenMargaret Thatcher wasPrime Minister , and wrote the 1983 Torygeneral election manifesto . He is regarded as being on the One Nation or 'wet' wing of the party.He attended Greenways Prep School in [Wiltshire] , and was later educated at
Eton College andChrist Church, Oxford .He succeeded his uncle as 3rd Baronet in 1993, but does not use the title. He is a cousin of the Conservative Party leader
David Cameron , whose maternal grandfather wasSir William Mount, 2nd Baronet , the uncle whom he succeeded in the Baronetcy.He was editor of the "
Times Literary Supplement " from 1991, for 11 years. He is a regular contributor to "Standpoint " magazine.He has written novels, including a six-volume
novel sequence "Chronicle of Modern Twilight" centred on a low-key character Gus Cotton; the title alludes to the sequence "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight" byHenry Williamson , and another sequence entitled "Tales of History and Imagination".He lives in
Islington . His sonHarry Mount is also a journalist and his cousin Mary Cameron is mother ofDavid Cameron , leader of the Conservative Party.Works
*"Very Like a Whale" (1967), novel
*"The Theatre of Politics" (1972), novel
*"The Man Who Rode Ampersand" (1975), novel, ("Chronicle of Modern Twilight - 1")
*"The Clique" (1978), novel
*"The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage" (1982)
*"The Practice of Liberty" (1986), novel
*"The Selkirk Strip" (1987), novel, ("Chronicle of Modern Twilight - 2")
*"Of Love and Asthma" (1991), novel, ("Chronicle of Modern Twilight - 3"), Winner of theHawthornden Prize 1992
*"Communism" (1992), editor
*"The British Constitution Now: Recovery or Decline?" (1992)
*"The Recovery of the Constitution" (Sovereignty Lectures) (1992)
*"Umbrella: A Pacific Tale" (1994), novel, ("Tales of History and Imagination - 1")
*"The Liquidator" (1995), novel, ("Chronicle of Modern Twilight - 4")
*"Jem (and Sam): A Revenger's Tale" (1999), novel, ("Tales of History and Imagination - 2")
*"Fairness" (2001), novel, ("Chronicle of Modern Twilight - 5")
*"Mind the G
*"Heads You Win" (2004), novel, ("Chronicle of Modern Twilight - 6")
*"Private Life 21st Century" (2006)
*"The Condor's Head" (2007), novel
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