John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 7th Baron Leconfield, 2nd Baron Egremont,
FRSL,
DL (born 21 April 1948),[1] generally known as Max Egremont, is a British
biographer and
novelist. Egremont is the eldest son of
John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield and 1st Baron Egremont, and
Pamela Wyndham-Quin, and succeeded his father in 1972. He is a direct descendant of
Sir John Wyndham. He married Caroline Nelson, a garden designer, in 1978 and they have four children, three daughters and a son. He lives at the family seat of
Petworth House in Sussex, which his family gave to the National Trust in 1947.
He has worked for the American publishing firm Crowell Collier Macmillan and on the staff of U.S. Senator
Hugh Scott in Washington. After his father's death in 1972, Egremont moved to Petworth and became the 2nd Baron Egremont and 7th Baron Leconfield.
Writing
Egremont's first book The Cousins: The Friendship, Opinions and Activities of
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and
George Wyndham was published in 1977 and won the Yorkshire Post Prize for the best first book of that year. His next work was Balfour: A Life of
Arthur James Balfour, published in 1980. He then wrote four novels, The Ladies' Man (1983), Dear Shadows (1986), Painted Lives (1989) and Second Spring (1993). His biography of Major General Sir
Edward Spears, Under Two Flags, was published in 1997 and was short listed for the Westminster Medal for Military History. He was appointed to be the official biographer of
Siegfried Sassoon by Sassoon's son George. Egremont's Siegfried Sassoon came out in 2005 and was short listed for the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2011 he published Forgotten Land, Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. In 2014, he published Some Desperate Glory, the First World War the Poets Knew. In 2017 Egremont was joint author with Frances Carey of Käthe Kollwitz, Portrait of the Artist, the catalogue that accompanied a travelling exhibition of Kollwitz's work. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature in 2001.[2] Egremont's short book The Connel Guide to World War 1 was published in 2017.
Italics in entries mean the titleholder also holds a previously listed barony of greater precedence. ^* Also a Lord in the
Peerage of Scotland, ^• Also a Baron in the
Peerage of Ireland
John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 7th Baron Leconfield, 2nd Baron Egremont,
FRSL,
DL (born 21 April 1948),[1] generally known as Max Egremont, is a British
biographer and
novelist. Egremont is the eldest son of
John Wyndham, 6th Baron Leconfield and 1st Baron Egremont, and
Pamela Wyndham-Quin, and succeeded his father in 1972. He is a direct descendant of
Sir John Wyndham. He married Caroline Nelson, a garden designer, in 1978 and they have four children, three daughters and a son. He lives at the family seat of
Petworth House in Sussex, which his family gave to the National Trust in 1947.
He has worked for the American publishing firm Crowell Collier Macmillan and on the staff of U.S. Senator
Hugh Scott in Washington. After his father's death in 1972, Egremont moved to Petworth and became the 2nd Baron Egremont and 7th Baron Leconfield.
Writing
Egremont's first book The Cousins: The Friendship, Opinions and Activities of
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and
George Wyndham was published in 1977 and won the Yorkshire Post Prize for the best first book of that year. His next work was Balfour: A Life of
Arthur James Balfour, published in 1980. He then wrote four novels, The Ladies' Man (1983), Dear Shadows (1986), Painted Lives (1989) and Second Spring (1993). His biography of Major General Sir
Edward Spears, Under Two Flags, was published in 1997 and was short listed for the Westminster Medal for Military History. He was appointed to be the official biographer of
Siegfried Sassoon by Sassoon's son George. Egremont's Siegfried Sassoon came out in 2005 and was short listed for the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2011 he published Forgotten Land, Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. In 2014, he published Some Desperate Glory, the First World War the Poets Knew. In 2017 Egremont was joint author with Frances Carey of Käthe Kollwitz, Portrait of the Artist, the catalogue that accompanied a travelling exhibition of Kollwitz's work. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature in 2001.[2] Egremont's short book The Connel Guide to World War 1 was published in 2017.
Italics in entries mean the titleholder also holds a previously listed barony of greater precedence. ^* Also a Lord in the
Peerage of Scotland, ^• Also a Baron in the
Peerage of Ireland