Patrick French

Patrick Rollo Basil French (28 May 1966 – 16 March 2023) was a British writer, historian and academician. He was the author of several books including: ''Younghusband: the Last Great Imperial Adventurer'' (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband; ''The World Is What It Is'' (2008), an authorised biography of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul that won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States of America; and ''India: A Portrait'' (2011).

During the 1992 general election, French was a Green Party candidate for Parliament. He sat on the executive committee of Free Tibet, a Tibet Support Group UK, and was a founding member of the inter-governmental India–UK Round Table. Provided by Wikipedia