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Sir Ferdinand Mount | |
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| Director of Number 10 Policy Unit | |
| In office 1982–1983 | |
| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | John Hoskyns |
| Succeeded by | John Redwood |
| Personal details | |
| Born | William Robert Ferdinand Mount 2 July 1939 |
| Spouse | Julia (née Lucas) |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Sir William Mount |
| Education | Greenways School Sunningdale School Eton College |
| Alma mater | Christ Church,Oxford |
| Occupation | Writer,Novelist |
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.
Ferdinand Mount,brought up by his parents in the isolated village of Chitterne,Wiltshire,began school at the age of eight. [1] He then attended Greenways and Sunningdale School before Eton College,after which he went to Christ Church,Oxford.
Mount worked at Conservative Party HQ as Head of the Number 10 Policy Unit during 1982–83,when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister [2] [3] and played a significant part in devising the 1983 general election manifesto.
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]
For eleven years (1991–2002) he was editor of the Times Literary Supplement , [5] and then became a regular contributor to Standpoint magazine. He wrote for The Sunday Times ,and in 2005 joined The Daily Telegraph as a commentator. [5] He writes for the London Review of Books . [6]
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 serves as Chairman of the Friends of the British Library [8] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1991. [9]
The only son of Robert (Robin) Mount,an army officer and amateur steeplechase jockey, [10] [1] and Lady Julia Pakenham,youngest daughter of the 5th Earl of Longford,KP,Ferdinand inherited the baronetcy from his uncle Lt-Col. Sir William Mount,Bt,TD,DL,who died in 1993,having had three daughters,including Mary Cameron,JP (b. 1934),mother of David Cameron,former Prime Minister (and Conservative Party leader). [2] [11]
The Labour politician Frank Pakenham,7th Earl of Longford,and his brother,Edward Pakenham,6th Earl of Longford,were Mount's maternal uncles. His maternal aunts were the writers Lady Mary Clive,Lady Pansy Lamb and Lady Violet Powell,the wife of author Anthony Powell.
Sir Ferdinand and his wife,Julia née Lucas,live in Islington;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). [12]
Francis Aungier Pakenham,7th Earl of Longford,,known to his family as Frank Longford and styled Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961,was a British politician and social reformer. A member of the Labour Party,he was one of its longest-serving politicians. He held cabinet positions on several occasions between 1947 and 1968. Longford was politically active until his death in 2001. A member of an old,landed Anglo-Irish family,the Pakenhams,he was one of the few aristocratic hereditary peers ever to serve in a senior capacity within a Labour government.
Elizabeth Pakenham,Countess of Longford,,better known as Elizabeth Longford,was a British historian. She was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London. She is best known as a historian,especially for her biographies of 19th-century figures including Queen Victoria (1964),Lord Byron (1976) and the Duke of Wellington (1969).
Earl of Longford is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland.
George Samuel Knatchbull Young,Baron Young of Cookham,,known as Sir George Young,6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015,having represented Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997 and North West Hampshire from 1997. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions:as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997;as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012;and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014.
Brigadier-General Thomas Pakenham,5th Earl of Longford,KP,MVO,known as Lord Silchester until 1887,was an Irish peer and soldier.
Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham,8th Earl of Longford,known simply as Thomas Pakenham,is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of African history,Victorian and post-Victorian British history,and trees.
The Thatcher baronetcy,of Scotney in the County of Kent,is a baronetcy created for the husband of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,Denis Thatcher,on 7 December 1990,following the resignation of his wife on 28 November. The current holder is Mark Thatcher,who succeeded his father in 2003.
William Alleyne Cecil,3rd Marquess of Exeter PC,styled Lord Burghley between 1825 and 1867,was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household between 1866 and 1867 and as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between 1867 and 1868.
Major General Simon Joseph Fraser,14th Lord Lovat and 3rd Baron Lovat,was a British Army officer,aristocrat,landowner,politician and the 23rd Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat.
General William Lygon Pakenham,4th Earl of Longford,styled The Honourable William Pakenham before 1860,was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Conservative politician.
William Morgan Fletcher-Vane,1st Baron Inglewood,TD,was a British Conservative Party politician.
Events from the year 1864 in Ireland.
The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour,4th Baronet,is a British writer and historian. The son of the Conservative politician Ian Gilmour,he is the author of numerous historical works,including award-winning biographies of Lord Curzon and Rudyard Kipling.
Thomas Pakenham,2nd Earl of Longford,,known as The Lord Longford between 1792 and 1794,was an Anglo-Irish peer.
Thomas Taylour,1st Marquess of Headfort,styled Viscount Headford from 1766 to 1795,and known as The Earl of Bective from 1795 to 1800,was an Irish peer and politician.
Sir William Stratford Dugdale,2nd Baronet,was the chairman of Aston Villa from 1975 to 1978. Dugdale arrived at Aston Villa as a director when they were in the third division,having been relegated due to poor performances on and off the pitch. He left the club in 1982,the year they won the European Cup. Following several successful years as a director in the early-1970s,he was elected chairman in 1975,taking over the position from Doug Ellis,the package holiday businessman,before being replaced by Harry Kartz.
Relatives of the former UK Prime Minister and current Foreign Secretary,Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton,feature throughout the law,politics and finance as well as being connected with the British aristocracy.
Edward Michael Pakenham,2nd Baron Longford was an Anglo-Irish naval officer,peer and landowner.
Lieutenant-General Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham was a British Army officer who served as aide-de-camp to William IV of the United Kingdom.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Pakenham was an Irish soldier and Conservative Party politician from County Antrim. He served for two years as a Member of Parliament (MP),until his death in the Crimean War.
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