Ferdinand Mount

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.

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.

[7] Mount 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,[11][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.

Sir Ferdinand and his wife, Julia née Lucas, live in Islington, London; he and Lady Mount have three surviving children, William (b.