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Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, VR, JP (29 March 1946 – 30 April 2011), known as Richard Holmes, was a British military historian. He was co-director of Cranfield University's Security and Resilience Group from 1989 to 2009 and became Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield in 1995.
Apr 30, 2011 · The BBC reports the death of Prof Richard Holmes CBE, who was known for his documentaries on warfare and his books on the ordinary soldier. He also taught at Sandhurst and Cranfield University and served in the Territorial Army.
Learn about the life and work of Richard Holmes, a renowned military historian who wrote books and made TV documentaries on the ordinary soldier's experience in war. He was also a lecturer, a brigadier, and a horseman who re-traced historical routes on horseback.
Biographer Richard Holmes was born in London, England on 5 November 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge. His first book, Shelley: The Pursuit, was published in 1974 and won a Somerset Maugham Award.
- London, England
- Harpercollins Publishers, Vintage
Richard Holmes, a prolific and acclaimed biographer, talks about his craft, his subjects, and his adventures in this in-depth interview. He shares his personal stories of writing about Shelley, Coleridge, Chatterton, and other Romantic figures, as well as his shift from literary to scientific biography.
Oct 1, 2008 · Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in this ground-breaking new biography . 'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes's first major work of biography in over a decade.
