David Gilmore biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of David Gilmore

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David Gilmore

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06 Mar 1946

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Rock Musician and Atheist                          
                          
Mother Sylvia née Wilson
Father Douglas Gilmour
First wife Virginia Hasenbein, four children
Second wife Polly Samson, four children.                          
                          
Charlie, Polly Samson's son with Heathcote Williams whom David Gilmour adopted, was jailed for 'protest violence', for 16 months after admitting violent disorder during a student fees protest in central London December 2010. Charlie leapt on the bonnet of a Jaguar car forming part of the royal convoy taking the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.

Charlie was also seen setting fire to papers outside the supreme court in Parliament Square and was seen kicking at a window of a Topshop branch in Oxford Street and later carrying the leg of a mannequin. Students attacking the store caused £50,000 damage.

Charlie had been rejected by his biolgoical father the poet and artist Heathcote Williams.