David Cannadine

British historian, writer

Professor Cannadine is author of *Mellon, An American Life*, the prize-winning *Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy* and many other acclaimed and important books. He has taught at Cambridge and Columbia universities and now is The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Born in Birmingham, England, he was educated at Cambridge, Oxford and Princeton.