David Dilks | |
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6th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull | |
In office 1991–1999 | |
Preceded by | Sir William Taylor |
Succeeded by | David Drewry |
Personal details | |
Born | Foleshill,Warwickshire,England | 17 March 1938
Alma mater | Hertford College,Oxford (BA) |
David N. Dilks,FRHistS,FRSL (born 17 March 1938) is a British historian and former professor of International History at the University of Leeds.
Dilks was born in Foleshill,a suburb of Coventry,and attended The Royal Grammar School Worcester before winning a scholarship to Hertford College,Oxford,to read history.
Dilks remained in Oxford to do research at St Antony's College before becoming research assistant to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan. [1] He was the official biographer of the latter as well as producing a two-volume biography of the viceroy of India,George Curzon,1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, [2] and an incomplete biography of Neville Chamberlain. [3]
Dilks was Professor of International History at the University of Leeds from 1970 to 1991.
In 1977 he became a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1986. [4]
Professor Dilks became Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull in 1991,serving until 1999. [5]