David N. Dilks, FRHistS, FRSL (born 17 March 1938) is a British historian and former professor of International History at the University of Leeds.
Dilks was born in Foleshill, a suburb of Coventry, and attended The Royal Grammar School Worcester before winning a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, to read history.
[1] He was the official biographer of the latter as well as producing a two-volume biography of the viceroy of India, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,[2] and an incomplete biography of Neville Chamberlain.
[3] Dilks was Professor of International History at the University of Leeds from 1970 to 1991.
Professor Dilks became Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull in 1991, serving until 1999.