David Pryce-Jones
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David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones (b. 15 February 1936 Vienna, Austria)[1] is a conservative British author and commentator. He is probably one of the few British conservative commentators to have experienced wartime dislocation and relocation, as a four year old refugee fleeing France via Spain.[2]
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[edit] Career
He was educated at Eton and read History at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied under A.J.P. Taylor. His relationship with Taylor was very antagonistic, with the two frequently getting into shouting matches.
He did his National Service in the Coldstream Guards, in which he was commissioned in 1955, promoted Lieutenant in 1956, and served in the British Army of the Rhine. He has worked as a journalist and author. He was Literary Editor at the Financial Times 1959-61, and The Spectator from 1961-63.
Pryce-Jones currently works as senior editor at National Review magazine. He also contributes to The New Criterion and Commentary. Pryce-Jones often writes about the contemporary events and the history of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and intelligence matters.
His most recent book, Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews has accused the French government of being anti-Semitic and pro-Arab, and of consistently siding against Israel in the hope of winning the favour of the Islamic world.
[edit] Personal life
He is the son of writer Alan Payan Pryce Jones (1908-2000) by his first wife (md 1934) Therese "Poppy" Fould-Springer (1908-February 1953)[3]. Therese was a daughter of Baron Eugène Fould-Springer, a French-born banker who was a cousin of Achille Fould, and Marie-Cecile or Mitzi Springer, later Mrs Frank Wooster or Mary Wooster[4], whose father was the industrialist Baron Gustav Springer (1842-1920).[5][6][7][8] [9] She also had a brother Baron Max Fould-Springer (1906-1999), and two sisters Helene Propper de Callejón (1907-1997)[10], wife of Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón and grandmother of of actress Helena Bonham Carter, and Baroness Liliane de Rothschild (1916-2003).[11]
Through his mother, Pryce Jones is partly of Jewish extraction and is connected to several Jewish business dynasties. His parents married in 1934 in Vienna, and Pryce Jones was born in Vienna. In 1940, a four year old David was stranded with his nanny in Dieppe and was rescued from the invading German army by his mother's brother-in-law Eduardo Propper de Callejón.[12] Pryce Jones acknowledged his uncle-by-marriage's efforts in saving his own life when Propper de Callejón retired from Spanish diplomatic service.
He married Clarissa Caccia in 1959. They have three surviving children, and live in London.
Pryce Jones is a first cousin of Elena Propper de Callejón, wife of late banker Raymond Bonham Carter and mother of actress Helena Bonham Carter. Another cousin is Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, only son of the better known Baron Élie de Rothschild.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Inheritance (1992)
- The Afternoon Sun (1986)
- Shirley’s Guild (1979)
- The England Commune (1975)
- Running Away (1971)
- The Stranger’s View (1967)
- Quondam (1965)
- The Sands of Summer (1963)
- Owls & Satyrs (1961)
[edit] Non-fiction
- The War that Never Was (1995)
- You Can’t be Too Careful (1992)
- The Closed Circle (1989)
- Cyril Connolly: Journal & Memoir (1983)
- Paris in the Third Reich (1981)
- Vienna (1978)
- Unity Mitford (1976)
- Evelyn Waugh & his world (1973)
- The Face of Defeat (1972)
- The Hungarian Revolution (1969)
- Next Generation: Travels in Israel (1965)
- Graham Greene (1963)
- Muhammad's Monsters (2004)
- Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews (2006)
[edit] References
- ^ Ellen Doon. "Alan Pryce-Jones Papers", Yale, New Haven, Connecticut. May 2003. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- ^ Jenni Frazer. "How Helena’s grandfather was finally recognised as a true hero" The Jewish Chronicle 8 February 2008
- ^ The year of death is from the Pryce Jones papers at Yale and other sources. Burke's Peerage 103rd edition (1963) apparently gives the year wrongly as 1952, unless the error is in the transfer to online data. The Fould Springer genealogical notes by Anne Yamey (below) incorrectly give her date of death as 1997.
- ^ According to the New York Social Diary, Wooster had been a lover of her husband and had lived with them in a troika before Eugène died. The widow and the bereaved lover then married; he lived until 1953. The story, well known to their circle, was not revealed publicly until her British son-in-law Alan Pryce Jones wrote about it in his memoirs. See also another story on how the Fould-Springers met Wooster
- ^ "Baroness Elie de Rothschild", Telegraph, 2003-02-20. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
- ^ "CARTER TOO JEWISH FOR JEWISH ROLE", ContactMusic, 2006-10-24. Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
- ^ Weisbach, Rachel. "Barmitzvah joy for Helena", SomethingJewish, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
- ^ Costa, Maddy. "'It's all gone widescreen'", Guardian Unlimited, 2006-11-03. Retrieved on 2007-07-13.
- ^ Obituary: Baroness Elie de Rothschild | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com
- ^ RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Kohn of Horany (Hareth), Bohemia, Czech Republic
- ^ Anne Yamey. Springer family:DANIEL and The FOULD-SPRINGER family. Retrieved 28 February 2008. The title was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
- ^ Jenni Frazer. Ibid
[edit] Sources
- Ellen Doon. "Alan Pryce-Jones Papers", Yale, New Haven, Connecticut. May 2003. This also lists some of David Pryce-Jones's British aristocratic connections at the end. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- Jenni Frazer. "How Helena’s grandfather was finally recognised as a true hero" The Jewish Chronicle 8 February 2008, narrating how Eduardo Propper de Callejón was recognized as "Righteous Among Nations" recently. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- Eric Pace. Alan Pryce-Jones, 91, Editor And Eminent Man of Letters" (obituary). The New York Times, 2 February 2000. Retrieved 28 February 2008. For Pryce-Jones's ancestry
- Anne Yamey. (May 2003?). Springer and Fould-Springer families of Ansbach. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
[edit] External links
- Official website — David Pryce-Jones
- David Pryce Jones profile. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- Terror Tomes: Top books on unconventional warfare — Editorial by David Pryce-Jones in The Wall Street Journal (2006-06-24)
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