The Rt Hon the Viscount Norwich, CVO

Career: author, broadcaster (as `John Julius Norwich'); with FO 1952-64; former chm Venice in Peril Fund, chm World Monuments Fund UK; maker of some thirty programmes (historical or art-historical) for television; FRSL, FRGS, FRSA; Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, Ordine della Solidarietà Italiana

Books and Publications: two-volume history of Norman Sicily: The Normans in the South, The Kingdom in the Sun (published in one volume as The Normans in Sicily, 1992); two-volume history of Venice: The Rise to Empire, The Greatness and the Fall; Mount Athos, Sahara, The Architecture of Southern England, Fifty Years of Glyndebourne; three-volume History of Byzantium: The Early Centuries, The Apogee, The Decline and Fall; Shakespeare's Kings, Paradise of Cities, Christmas Crackers, More Christmas Crackers, Still More Christmas Crackers, The Middle Sea (History of the Mediterranean), Treasures of Britain (ed), Trying to Please (memoirs, 2008), The Popes: A History (2011)