Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount,3rd Baronet,FRSL (born 2 July 1939),is a British writer,novelist,and columnist for The Sunday Times,as well as a political commentator.
Mount is regarded as being on the one-nation or "wet" side of the Conservative Party.[by whom?] He succeeded his uncle,Sir William Mount,in the family title as 3rd baronet in 1993,but prefers to remain known as Ferdinand Mount.[4]
Mount has written novels,including a six-volume novel sequence called Chronicle of Modern Twilight,centring on a low-key character,Gus Cotton;the title alludes to the sequence A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight by Henry Williamson,and another sequence entitled Tales of History and Imagination. Volume 5,entitled Fairness,was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2001.[7]
Sir Ferdinand and his wife,Julia née Lucas,live in Islington,London;he and Lady Mount have three surviving children,William (b. 1969 and heir apparent to the title),Harry (b. 1971,a journalist) and Mary (b. 1972,an editor who is married to Indian writer Pankaj Mishra).[13]
↑ E.g., * Ferdinand Mount, "Why We Go to War", London Review of Books, vol. 41, no. 11 (6 June 2019), pp. 11–14. "[H]istorians have tended to weave their narratives around [...] high-flown themes: the struggle to maintain the balance of power, the struggles against fascism and communism, against the French Revolution or German militarism. In reality, most large wars have contained within them a violent and persistent economic conflict. [p. 12.] Not for one second do [the UK's Brexiteers] pause to think how hard-won [Europe's economic integration and peace, within the European Union, have] been. They are the feckless children of seventy years of peace." [p. 14.]
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