![]() He was educated at Eton college and then studied law at New College, Oxford, graduating with a first. ![]() Ziegler was born in Ringwood, in the New Forest, to Dora (nee Barnwell) and Louis Ziegler, a retired army major. Of course one can never hope to discover anything approaching everything, but one can find out a great deal.” He said: “Ideally the biographer should know everything about his subject and then discard 99% of his information, keeping only the essential. ![]() If Ziegler’s patrician, establishment status and urbane charm helped to smooth his path to selection for such monumental biographies, his industry and the punctiliousness of his research meant that they come close to definitive. ![]() The foibles of Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India before independence, were such that Ziegler wrote a note on his desk while writing the biography in the mid-1980s stating: “Remember, in spite of everything, he was a great man.” That is not necessarily the view any longer of many British and Indian historians, though it is hard to overlook Mountbatten’s significance to the modern subcontinent and his relatives in the Royal family. ![]()
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