Date of birth: William Hamilton-Dalrympal born on 20 March 1965. He was born in
Scotland. He was brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He was brought up in
Scotland. He is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a
broadcaster and critic.
Early life and Education: Dalrympal is the son of Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrympal, 10th Baronet, and Lady
Anne-Louise Keppel, a daughter of the 9th Earl of Albemarle. He is a cousin of Virginia
Woolf. His brother, Jock, was a first-class cricketer. He was educated at Ample forth
College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was first a history exhibitioner and then a
senior history scholar. Dalrympal first went to Delhi on 26 January 1984, and has lived in
India on and off since 1989 and spends most of the year at his Mehrauli farmhouse in the
outskirts of Delhi, but summers in London and Edinburgh. His wife, Olivia, is an artist and
comes from a family with long-standing connections to India.
Subjects of his Interest: Dalrympal’s interests include the history and art of India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, the Middle East, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jains and early Eastern Christianity.
Every one of his ten books have won literary prizes. His first three were travel books based
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