Myles Thoroton Hildyard MBE MC (1914–2005) was an English landowner, diarist and historian.
[3] Hildyard served in the Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry in World War II, posted first to Palestine and Egypt.
[9] Hildyard's best-known works are his World War II letters, and a diary he wrote while serving as captain in the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers).
"Flintham was, for the years Myles Hildyard was its guardian," noted The Independent in its obituary, "a most remarkable place to visit.
'He was, in a way,' writes Antony Beevor,[11] 'the local equivalent of Nancy Mitford's Lord Merlin.'
At Flintham he encouraged and received a stream of visitors young and old, who brought lively conversation, stimulation and enjoyment to a house which, when his father inherited, had been a rather forbidding and lifeless place.