the British Museum from 1990 to 2000, and a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1989 to 2001. He has been chairman of the Friends of the National Libraries since 1985 and of the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust since 1995. He is President of the Sussex Heritage Trust and of the Sussex branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England. Books The Cousins (William Collins 1977) Balfour (William Collins1980) The Ladies’ Man (Secker & Warburg 1983) Dear Shadows (Secker & Warburg 1986) Painted Lives (Hamish Hamilton 1989) Second Spring (Hamish Hamilton 1993) Under Two Flags (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1997) Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet and His Library (Grolier Club 2002) Siegfried Sassoon (Picador 2005) Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia (Picador 2011) Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew (Picador 2014) Käthe Kollwitz, with Frances Carey (British Museum 2018) All You Need to Know About World War 1 (Connel 2018) The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021) References External links Google book search list of books by Max Egremont Retrieved 2009-07-03 1948 births Living people People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford English biographers Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Eldest sons of British hereditary barons Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Deputy Lieutenants of West Sussex Max Leconfield