[1] His mother, Ellen Dench Howes Pimlott, was American; her ancestors were Pilgrims, and she was a descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials.

[3] In the February 1974 general election, Pimlott contested Arundel on behalf of the Labour Party, and Cleveland and Whitby the following October.

[4] Aside from his attempts at a Parliamentary career in the 1970s, not to mention his tenure as Chairman of the Fabian Society in 1993/1994, Pimlott is best remembered for his works of political biography including the lives of Hugh Dalton (1985), Harold Wilson (1992), and a study of Queen Elizabeth II (1996).

[2] Pimlott died from complications of an intracerebral hemorrhage and acute myeloid leukaemia at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery on 10 April 2004, at the age of 58.

[2] In 2005, Goldsmiths named a major new Will Alsop-designed building on its New Cross site in his honour, and the Fabian Society and The Guardian inaugurated the first annual Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing.