Christopher Simon Sykes (born 23 July 1948) is an English writer and photographer. He was born into the northern English landed gentry

Sykes family of Sledmere The Sykes family of Sledmere own Sledmere House in Yorkshire, England. Family history The Sykes family settled in Sykes Dyke near Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle in Cumberland during the Middle Ages. The earliest correspondence in the Sykes arch ...

, the third son of Sir (Mark Tatton) Richard Tatton-Sykes, 7th Baronet of Sledmere.Belfield, Gervase (ed.), et al, ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019'', Debrett's, London, p1743. He is the grandson of Mark Sykes, who helped draw up the Sykes-Picot Agreement. In addition to his authoring fourteen books, his work has appeared in many magazines. He has also written and presented ''Upper Crust'', a six-part television series on country-house cookery for

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. He is married, and has two children by his first wife.

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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Hugh John Massingberd (30 December 1946 – 25 December 2007), originally Hugh John Montgomery and known from 1963 to 1992 as Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, was an English journalist and genealogist. He began his career at ''Burke's Peerage''/''Bur ...

) * (with Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd) * (with Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd) * (with Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd) * * * *

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Living people 21st-century English writers English photographers BBC television presenters 1948 births Younger sons of baronets Sykes family {{England-writer-stub