Harry Mount

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name = Harry Mount portrait = other_names = William Robert Horatio Mount website = birth_date = circa 1968 birth_place = [[England death_date = death_place = occupation = journalist, author, politician title = salary = term = predecessor = successor = party = boards = religion = relations = footnotes = Was friends with [[David Cameron and [[Boris Johnson, at [[University of Oxford|Oxford, when they were all members of the notorious [[Bullingdon Club

}} Harry Mount is a member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party in the [[United Kingdom, and a friend of former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, [[Boris Johnson, from when they were both members of the notorious [[Bullingdon Club, when they were students at the [[University of Oxford.[1]

During his term as Prime Minister Johnson was widely criticized for appointing his friends from the club to positions of influence, in spite of the club's bad reputation.

Even after that earlier criticism for appointing other friends of his, on September 2, 2022 - less than a week before his scheduled retirement as Prime Minister, Johnson appointed Mount to the [[House of Lords appointments commission.[1][2]

Mount is an author, best known for [[The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson which is not, as anyone might expect it to be, a [[satire.[1] His other works include [[Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That, a book intended “to give you a pleasurable breeze through the main principles of Latin.”[3]

Mount and [[David Cameron, another former Prime Minister, and member of the Bullingdon Club, are cousins, both being great-grandsons of [[Sir [[William Mount, 1st Baronet|William Mount, the first [[Mount Baronet.[4][5] His father, the third Baronet, prefers to go simply as Mister Mount, not Sir Mount.[6] Mount had an elder brother, [[William Mount (music)|William Mount, alive when their father was interviewed in 2008.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 {{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/02/boris-johnson-gives-peerages-job-author-book-wit-wisdom-harry-mount | title = Boris Johnson gives peerages job to author of book on his ‘wit and wisdom’ | work = [[The Guardian | author = Matthew Weaver, Henry Dyer | date = 2022-09-02 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220904170726/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/02/boris-johnson-gives-peerages-job-author-book-wit-wisdom-harry-mount | archivedate = 2022-09-04 | accessdate = 2022-09-07 | url-status = live | quote = Boris Johnson has sparked fresh accusations of cronyism after choosing the author of a book on his 'wit and wisdom' to help oversee the appointment of new peers to the House of Lords. }} mirror
  2. Independent Member for the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
  3. {{cite news | url = http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/12/10/071210ta_talk_collins | title = Young Fogy | work = [[The New Yorker | author = Lauren Collins | date = 2007-12-10 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165331/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/young-fogy https://web.archive.org/web/20190221112021/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/young-fogy | archivedate = 2015-04-02 | accessdate = 2022-09-07 | url-status = live | quote = Last Christmas, the British publisher Short Books issued—along with 'Doctor, Have You Got a Minute?' and 'Ever Dated a Psycho?'—a two-hundred-and-seventy-two-page half memoir, half manual titled 'Amo, Amas, Amat . . . and All That,' intended, according to its author, Harry Mount, 'to give you a pleasurable breeze through the main principles of Latin.' }} mirror
  4. {{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/happened-writers-used-1921-census-uncover-family-history/ | title = The census can’t fill all the mysterious gaps in our family histories | work = [[The Telegraph | author = Harry Mount | date = 2022-01-07 | page = | location = | isbn = | language = | trans-title = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2022-09-07 | url-status = live | quote = On June 19, 1921, Robin Mount, my paternal grandfather, was 14 and at Eton College. In the 'Relationship to head' section, he is charmingly described as an 'inmate' at the school. Because he was at boarding school, the 'Person making return' was his housemaster, CHK Marten Esq. His older brother, William Mount (David Cameron’s grandfather, incidentally), 16, was another 'inmate'. }}
  5. {{cite news | url = http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/davidcameron.htm | title = Rt Hon David William Donald Cameron MP | work = [[Cracroft's Peerage | author = | date = | page = | location = | isbn = | language = | trans-title = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2022-09-07 | url-status = live | quote = }}
  6. {{Cite news | url = http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/25/culture.features | title = Stephen Moss interviews writer and author Ferdinand Mount | work = [[The Guardian | author = Stephen Moss | date = 2008-04-25 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220303051036/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/25/culture.features | archivedate = 2022-03-03 | accessdate = 2022-09-07 | url-status = live }} mirror