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14 Facts About Richard Davenport-Hines

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Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines was born on 21 June 1953 in London and is a British historian and literary biographer, best known for his biography of the poet W H Auden.

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Richard Davenport-Hines has published more than twenty books and essays on a variety of historical, political, and philosophical topics over the course of his career.

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Richard Davenport-Hines was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

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Richard Davenport-Hines was a research fellow at the London School of Economics, where he headed a research project on the globalisation of pharmaceutical companies.

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Richard Davenport-Hines was joint winner of the Wolfson Prize for History and Biography in 1985 and winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History in 1986.

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Richard Davenport-Hines now writes and reviews in a number of literary journals, including the Literary Review and The Times Literary Supplement.

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Richard Davenport-Hines is an adviser to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, to which he has contributed 163 biographies.

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Richard Davenport-Hines was a trustee of the London Library between 1996 and 2005, and has been on the committee of the Royal Literary Fund since 2007.

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Richard Davenport-Hines is a member of the Athenaeum Club, London, Brooks's Club and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2005 and the Royal Historical Society since 1984.

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Richard Davenport-Hines was chairman of the judges of the Biographers' Club Prize in 2008, and of the judges of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History in 2010.

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Richard Davenport-Hines is one of the judges of the Cosmo Davenport-Hines Prize for Poetry awarded annually since 2009 to members of King's College London – named in commemoration of his son who died on 9 June 2008 aged 21.

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Richard Davenport-Hines inaugurated the Cosmo Davenport-Hines Memorial Lecture given annually since 2010 under the joint auspices of King's College London and the Royal Society of Literature.

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Richard Davenport-Hines was a leading signatory to a letter in The Guardian urging Britain to remain in the European Union during the membership referendum of 2016.

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Richard Davenport-Hines has contributed to several volumes of historical or literary essays.

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