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The Sixth great power : Barings / Philip Ziegler, 1988
Wikipedia, 2023-02-27
Information trouvée : Philip Sandeman Ziegler CVO FRSL (24 December 1929 – 22 February 2023) was a British
biographer and historian. He attended Eton College and New College, Oxford, graduating
with a degree in Jurisprudence with highest honours before joining the British Foreign
Service. In the Foreign Service, he served in Laos, Pretoria and Bogotá, as well as
with the Delegation to NATO in Paris. In 1967 he resigned from the Foreign Service,
and joined the publishers Collins. Originally intending to be a novelist, he began
a career as biographer with his life of Talleyrand's lover, the Duchess of Dino. He
was editor in chief at Collins from 1979 to 1980. He was chosen as official biographer
of Edward VIII, for which he was appointed CVO. He has written in various journals
and newspapers including The Spectator, The Listener, The Times, The Daily Telegraph
and History Today.
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