David Dilks

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Professor David N Dilks FRHistS FRSL is a British academic in the field of International Relations.

Professor Dilks is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Leeds. He was born in Coventry in 1938 and attended The Royal Grammar School before winning a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford to read History. He remained in Oxford to do research at St Antony's College before becoming research assistant to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan. He was the official biographer of the latter as well as producing a two volume biography of Viscount Curzon of India and Neville Chamberlain.

In 1977 he became a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Professor Dilks became Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull in 1991, in which position he remained until 1999. He remains on many political and international committees including The Guardian politics advisory council, Politea and the International Committee for the History of the Second World War (of which he was president). He was also president of the Churchill Society and has recently written a book on Churchill's time in Canada.