Philip Ziegler

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Philip Sandeman Ziegler (born 24 December 1929) is a prominent British biographer and historian.

He was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, and went with the school when it merged with Summer Fields School Oxford. He was afterwards at Eton College and New College, Oxford. He earned a degree in Jurisprudence with highest honours before joining the British Foreign Service, in which he served in a variety of foreign locales.

Originally intending to be a novelist, he began a career as biographer with his life of Talleyrand's lover, the Duchess of Dino.

Works

*"Duchess of Dino ("1962) on Dorothea Courland
*" ("1965)
*"The Black Death ("1969)
*"King William IV ("1971)
*"Omdurman ("1973)
*"Melbourne : a Biography of William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne ("1976) on Lord Melbourne the Prime Minister
*"Crown and People ("1978)
*"Diana Cooper ("1981)
*"Mountbatten. The Official Biography ("1985)
*"Elizabeth's Britain 1926 to 1986 ("1986)
*"Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten 1920-1922: Tours with the Prince of Wales ("1987) editor
*"Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, South-East Asia, 1943-1946 ("1988)
*"The Sixth Great Power: Barings 1762-1929 ("1988)
*"From Shore to Shore - The Final Years: The Diaries of Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1953-1979 ("1989)
*"Edward VIII, the Official Biography ("1990)
*"Brooks's: A Social History ("1991) editor with Desmond Seward
*"Wilson: The Authorised Life of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx ("1995) on Harold Wilson
*"London at War 1939-1945 ("1995)
*"Osbert Sitwell ("1998)
*"Britain Now and Then: The Francis Frith Collection ("1999)
*"Soldiers: Fighting Men's Lives, 1901-2001 ("2001)
*"Man Of Letters: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Literary Impresario Rupert Hart-Davis ("2005)