[1] West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, London.
Wife: Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott (m. 10-Jul-1951, four sons, one daughter)
Son: David Robert Gilmour
High School: Eton College
University: Balliol College, Oxford University
Lord Privy Seal (1979-81)
UK Secretary of State for Defence (1974)
UK Member of Parliament for Chesham and Amersham (1974-92)
UK Member of Parliament for Central Norfolk (1962-74)
The Spectator Owner (1954-67), and Editor (1954-59)
Conservative Party (UK)
Life Peerage 1992 as Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar
Author of books:
The Body Politic (1971)
The Inside Right: A Study of Conservatism (1977)
The Riot, Risings and Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth-century England (1992)
The Dancing with Dogma: Thatcherite Britain in the Eighties (1992)
Whatever Happened to the Tories: The Conservatives since 1945 (1997, with Mark Garnett)
The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time (2002)
