David N. Dilks, PhD

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, FRHistS, FRSL, (born 17 April 1938), is a British historian and emeritus

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 Professor of International Relations at the University of Leeds

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. He was born in Foleshill

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, a suburb of Coventry

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, and attended The Royal Grammar School before winning a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford

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, to read History. He remained in Oxford to do research at St Antony's College

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 before becoming research assistant to Anthony Eden

Anthony Eden

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 and Harold Macmillan

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. He was the official biographer of the latter as well as producing a two-volume biography of the viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, and a two-volume biography of Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain

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In 1977 he became a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

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Professor Dilks became Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull

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in 1991, a position he retained until 1999.

Selected works

• Dilks, David (1969-70). Curzon in India. 2 vols., Hart-Davis.
• Dilks, David (1984). Neville Chamberlain. 2 vols, Cambridge University Press.