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Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan, OBE was a British military intelligence officer, author, and academic. During his military career, he rose to the rank of colonel and was appointed OBE. He was provost of King's College, Cambridge 1956-66, provost of University College, London 1966-78, vice-chancellor of the University of London, and a member of the House of Lords.
Annan's publications include Leslie Stephen —awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Roxburgh of Stowe, Our Age, described by Professor John Gray in the New Statesman as a "marvellous compendium of the higher gossip," Changing Enemies, and The Dons. His best-known essay is "The Intellectual Aristocracy," which illustrates, according to Robert Fulford in the National Post, the "web of kinship that united British intellectuals in the 19th and early 20th centuries."
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