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Alan Davidson (historian)
Alan Davidson may refer to: *Alan Davidson (food writer) (1924–2003), also British diplomat *Alan Hayes Davidson (1960–2018), architectural artist *Alan Davidson (cricketer, born 1929) (1929–2021), Australian Test cricketer *Alan Davidson (cricketer, born 1897) (1897–1962), Australian cricketer, played 4 first-class cricket matches for Victoria 1927–31 *Alan Davidson (author) (born 1943), British author *Alan Davidson (Australian soccer) (born 1960), Australian association football player *Alan Davidson (Scottish footballer) (born 1960), Scottish football goalkeeper *Alan B. Davidson, American government official and attorney See also *Allan Davidson (other) *Allen Turner Davidson (1819–1905), Confederate politician. {{hndis, name=Davidson, Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davidson (food Writer)
Alan Eaton Davidson CMG (30 March 1924 – 2 December 2003) was a British diplomat and writer best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. After leaving Queen's College, Oxford in 1948, Davidson joined the British diplomatic service, rising through the ranks to conclude his career as ambassador to Laos, from 1973 to 1975. He retired early and devoted himself to full-time writing about food, encouraged by Elizabeth David and others. He published more than a dozen books between his retirement and 2002, but his ''magnum opus'' was ''The Oxford Companion to Food'', a work of more than a million words, which took twenty years to complete and was published to international acclaim in 1999. Life and career Early years Davidson was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the son of William John Davidson (1899–1959), inspector of taxes, and his wife, Constance, ''née'' Eaton (1889–1974).Levy, Paul"Davidson, Alan Eaton (1924–2003), diplomatist and food historian" ''Oxfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |