Nicholas Lamert Luard (26 June 1937 – 25 May 2004) was a British writer and politician.

Background

Nicholas Lamert Luard was born on 26 June 1937 in Hampstead, London.

Luard was educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was taught by F. R. Leavis. He met Peter Cook through Footlights. A very short academic career was replaced by club management on the strength of a legacy. He co-founded The Establishment club in the early 1960s with Peter Cook. He then went into writing. He was one of the Lords Gnome of Private Eye.

With Chris Brasher, Nigel Hawkins and Denis Mollison, he founded the John Muir Trust in 1983. Hawkins served as chairman from 1991 to 1997.

Luard stood as a candidate for the Referendum Party in the 1997 general election, against Michael Portillo in Enfield Southgate.

Luard married Elisabeth Longmore, the food writer, in 1962.

He died on 25 May 2004 in Kensington, London.

Bibliography

  • Refer to Drawer: Being a Penetrating Survey of a Shameful National Practice - Hustling. With Dominick Elwes; illus. John Glashan. London: Arthur Barker, 1964.
  • The Warm and Golden War. London: Secker & Warburg, 1967 (). New York: Pantheon, 1967.
  • Travelling Horseman. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. ()
  • The Robespierre Serial. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975 (). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975 ()
  • The Orion Line. London: Secker & Warburg, 1976 ()
  • Blood Spoor. Under the pen name of James McVean, London: Raven Books, 1977 ()
  • The Dirty Area. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979 ()
  • The Last Wilderness: A Journey Across the Great Kalahari Desert. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981 (). London: Elm Tree, 1981 ()
  • Andalucia: A Portrait of Southern Spain. London: Century, 1984 ()
  • The Wildlife Parks of Africa. London: Michael Joseph, 1985
  • Landscape in Spain. Photographs by Michael Bussele. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988 (). London: Pavilion, 1988 ()
  • Gondar. London: Century, 1988 ()
  • Kala. London: Century, 1990 ()
  • Himalaya. London: Century, 1992 ()
  • Sanctuary. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994 ()
  • Silverback. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996 ()
  • The Field of the Star: Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago De Compostela. London: Michael Joseph, 1998 ()

References

  • Guardian obituary by Patrick Marnham
  • Fantastic Fiction