Nicholas Mosley

Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet, MC FRSL (25 June 1923 – 28 February 2017), was an English novelist.

Mosley was born in London in 1923. He was the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, an English politician and his first wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, a daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary). In 1932 his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, founded the British Union of Fascists and became an open supporter of Benito Mussolini. In 1933, when he was only ten, Nicholas Mosley's mother, Lady Cynthia, died and in 1936 Diana Mitford, one of the Mitford sisters, who was already his father's mistress, became his stepmother.

As a young boy, Mosley began to stammer and attended weekly sessions with the speech therapist Lionel Logue to help him to overcome this disorder. He later said his father claimed never really to have noticed this stammer, but despite this he may, as a result of it, have been less aggressive when speaking to him than he was towards other people. Mosley was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1940 his father was interned because of his campaigning against the war with Germany. Despite this the younger Mosley was soon commissioned into the Rifle Brigade and saw active service in Italy, winning the Military Cross in 1945.

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