Editing Ferdinand Mount (section)

==Life==
Ferdinand Mount, brought up by his parents in the isolated village of [[Chitterne]], [[Wiltshire]], England, began school at the age of eight.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=2008-04-25|title='I'm just a butterfly' {{!}} Ferdinand Mount|interviewer=Stephen Moss |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/25/culture.features|access-date=2022-02-09|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> He then attended [[Greenways School|Greenways]] and [[Sunningdale School]] before [[Eton College]], after which he went to [[Christ Church, Oxford]].

Mount worked at [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] HQ as [[Supervisor|head]] of the [[Number 10 Policy Unit]] during 1982–83, when [[Margaret Thatcher]] was Prime Minister<ref name="moss">{{cite news|last=Moss|first=Stephen|title=Lord Young has found that soundbites sometimes bite back|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/nov/19/lord-young-soundbites-never-had-it-so-good|access-date=11 December 2010|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=19 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=MacLeod|first=Alexander|title=Mrs. Thatcher sets up her own advisory team|newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|date=1 December 1982}}</ref> and played a significant part in devising the 1983 general election [[manifesto]].

Mount is regarded as being on the [[One-nation conservatism|one-nation]] or "wet" side of the Conservative Party.{{by whom?|date=July 2023}} He succeeded his uncle, [[Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet|Sir William Mount]], in the [[hereditary title|family title]] as 3rd [[baronet]] in 1993, but prefers to remain known as Ferdinand Mount.<ref>{{cite book
 | editor-last = Mosley| editor-first = Charles 
 | title = [[Burke's Peerage]] & Baronetage, 107th edn
 | location = London
 | publisher = Burke's Peerage & Gentry Ltd
 | page = 2801 (MOUNT, Bt)
 | date = 2003
 | isbn = 0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

For eleven years (1991–2002), he was editor of ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]'',<ref name="tryhorn"/> and then became a regular contributor to ''[[Standpoint (magazine)|Standpoint]]'' magazine. He wrote for ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', and in 2005 joined ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' as a commentator.<ref name="tryhorn">{{cite news|last=Tryhorn|first=Chris|title=Ferdinand Mount joins Telegraph|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/mar/01/pressandpublishing.thedailytelegraph|access-date=11 December 2010|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=1 March 2005}}</ref> He writes for the ''[[London Review of Books]]''.<ref>E.g., * Ferdinand Mount, "Why We Go to War", ''[[London Review of Books]]'', vol. 41, no. 11 (6 June 2019), pp. 11–14.  "[H]istorians have tended to weave their narratives around [...] high-flown themes:  the struggle to maintain the [[Balance of power (international relations)|balance of power]], the struggles against [[fascism]] and [[communism]], against the [[French Revolution]] or [[Militarism#Germany|German militarism]].  In reality, most large wars have contained within them a violent and persistent economic conflict. [p. 12.] Not for one second do [the UK's [[Brexit]]eers] pause to think how hard-won [Europe's economic integration and peace, within the [[European Union]], have] been.  They are the feckless children of seventy years of peace." [p. 14.]</ref>

Mount has written novels, including a six-volume [[novel sequence]] called ''Chronicle of Modern Twilight'', centring on a low-key character, Gus Cotton; the title alludes to the sequence ''A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'' by [[Henry Williamson]], and another sequence entitled ''Tales of History and Imagination''. Volume 5, entitled ''Fairness'', was long-listed for the [[Man Booker Prize]] in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ferdinand Mount {{!}} The Booker Prizes|url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/ferdinand-mount|access-date=2022-02-09|website=thebookerprizes.com|language=en}}</ref>

Mount serves as chairman of the [[Friends of the British Library]]<ref>[http://support.bl.uk/Files/5370a806-8a5c-4ce8-a969-a47b00d10ba7/FBL-Officers-and-Council-May-2015.pdf www.bl.uk]</ref> and was elected a [[fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]] (FRSL) in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sir Ferdinand Mount|url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/ferdinand-mount-3/|access-date=2022-02-09|website=Royal Society of Literature|language=en-GB}}</ref>