The Honourable Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet, FRSL (born 14 November 1952) is a British writer and historian.
The son of the Conservative politician Ian Gilmour, he is the author of numerous historical works, including award-winning biographies of Lord Curzon (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography).
[citation needed] Gilmour was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), a former research fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a former senior research associate of Balliol College, Oxford.
[citation needed] He has also reviewed for publications such as the London Review of Books, the Financial Times, Corriere della Sera, the Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, the Independent on Sunday, and the New York Review of Books.