Alistair Horne became a senior member at St Antony's College, Oxford in 1970 and a fellow of the college in 1978.
16 Facts About Alistair Horne
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Alistair Horne was made an honorary fellow in 1988, a position he held until his death.
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Alistair Horne was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2003 for services to Anglo-French relations.
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Alistair Horne was the only son of Sir Allan Horne and Auriol, niece of the 13th Earl of Kinnoull.
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Alistair Horne was educated at Eastacre, then Ludgrove School when it was at Cockfosters and described Ludgrove as a place of "humbug, snobbery and rampant, unchecked bullying" which he thought was intended to toughen the boys up.
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Alistair Horne seems to have hated Stowe, which he escaped from to America during wartime.
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Alistair Horne attended Millbrook School, where he befriended William F Buckley Jr.
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Alistair Horne served in the RAF and later as an officer in the Coldstream Guards.
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Alistair Horne graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge, as a Master of Arts and received the degree of LittD from the University of Cambridge.
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Alistair Horne campaigned against the opening of a Montessori school adjacent to his Turville home because Reverend Paul Nicolson, the vicar responsible for the project, planned to use the project to fund summer vacations at the school for children from nearby London.
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Alistair Horne worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1952 to 1955, stationed in Berlin.
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Alistair Horne left the world of espionage for history when he was sacked from the Telegraph in 1955, allegedly for offending the wife of the chairman of the newspaper.
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Alistair Horne was the official biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a work originally published in 1988.
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In October 2006 the book was republished and in January 2007, by phone from his home in England, Alistair Horne was invited to take part in an Iraq War discussion panel on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS.
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In 2004, Alistair Horne was offered the authorship of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's official biography but declined due to the daunting amount of work involved and his age and opted instead to write a volume on one year in Kissinger's life.
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Alistair Horne endowed the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St Antony's College to provide financial assistance and college membership to young historians focused on writing a book on modern history.