Andrew Gailey won the £5,000 (about $7,288) Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography for The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity. Chair of judges Roy Foster said the book "paints a masterly portrait of a late-Victorian grandee whose fame and glamour dazzled his contemporaries, but whose private persona was strangely complex and heavily inflected by his inheritance from his scandalous Sheridan forebears. It is also a panoramic study of the uses of celebrity in the age of empire."
