Tim Heald

Timothy Villiers Heald FRSL (28 January, 1944 – 20 November, 2016) was a British journalist, public speaker, biographer of Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Barbara Cartland, Denis Compton, and Brian Johnston, and author of many novels, including the series of Simon Bognor mystery novels, forming the basis of an unsuccessful television series broadcast in 1981 and 1982. He was often a speaker aboard the cruise ships Queen Elizabeth 2 and Caronia. Quotes Of Norman Tebbit Tebbit, Nigel Lawson Lawson, Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler Fowler, Leon Brittan Brittan, Cecil Parkinson Parkinson, Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater King and Janet Young, Baroness Young Lady Young only Lawson and KIng had been to a major public school (Westminster School Westminster and Rugby School Rugby), though Lady Young was, like Antonia Fraser Lady Antonia Fraser, one of those rare females to attend the Dragon School, Oxford. Old Boy Networks: Who We Know and How We Use Them Ticknor & Fields 1984 9780899192840 https://books.google.com/books?id=2K_w4pOCYQoC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=prep+school 93 (288 pages; published in 1983 in the UK with the title Networks: Who We Know and How We Use Them) I was never much of a Cricket#Player roles cricketer, though I enjoyed it at prep school. ...After school I think I only played once, for my college social side against Great Tew, one of the most beautiful of English villages, though the ground was dull. I opened the innings and was bowled first ball. The humiliation was too much and I hung up my boots for good.But I have always liked the idea of cricket. A day sitting in a Deckchair deck chair in the sun, preferably with at least one similarly inclined companion to while away the longueurs between Over (cricket) overs, seems to me a very civilised way of spending one's time. If the game becomes exciting, so much the better, though anyone who thinks that cricket can or should be consistently exciting fails, I think, to understand the game's appeal. Introduction The Character of Cricket Dean Street Press 2015 9781910570272 https://books.google.com/books?id=KMxCCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT7 (300 pages; 1st published in 1986 by Pavilion Books) Quotes about Tim Heald I was surprised when I heard that Heald had put himself forward for this biography, which is semi-authorised in so far as the Royal Archives have let him use some letters from Princess Margaret to her grandmother, Queen Mary, and her official correspondence. I have always thought of Princess Margaret as the hot potato where royal biography is concerned: an air of repressed scandal hung about her, as well as an unenviable reputation for rudeness and arrogance. "Semi-authorisation" hasn't made Heald's task easier but, after his tactful biography of the Duke of Edinburgh, the palace clearly regards him as a safe pair of hands. Friends and courtiers of the late princess have been willing to talk to him, but there is always an unspoken quid pro quo and, in this case, areas have been roped off for the use of the Queen Mother's official biographer, William Shawcross.That said, this is a fair and readable book. Heald's main argument — and it is an important one — is that Margaret was a figure stranded by history on a royal shoal which was long out of touch with the mainland by the time she died. Sarah Bradford, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/21/biography.featuresreviews2 Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Weald. Sarah Bradford finds it difficult to warm to the Queen's younger sister as portrayed in Tim Heald's Princess Margaret 20 July 2007 The Guardian There is a chapter in Tim Heald's enjoyable Village Cricket that is worth the cover price alone. At its beginning, the author states that his earliest ideas, and prejudices, about cricket were formed by the written word, and that 'The more I considered writing about cricket the more I reflected on reading about it.' Indeed, I don't know of another sport that has stimulated so much writing. Heald believes there have been more than 10,000 books published on cricket. Christopher Ondaatje, review of Village Cricket by Tim Heald https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-parsons-pastime April 2004 Literary Review External links Category:1944 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Biographers from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Journalists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Novelists from England Category:People from Cornwall Category:People from Dorset Category:University of Oxford alumni