# Tony Lothian Prize

The Tony Lothian Prize is an annual literary prize presented by the London-based Biographers' Club to the best book proposal from a first-time biographer. Prize winners received £2,000.
In 2023, the Biographers' Club announced that the prize would be renamed the following year as the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize to honor Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch, who had died that year. The award had previously been named after her mother, Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian.

## Recipients

Prize winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2010 | Matt Cox | White Lies, Black Magic: Prince Monolulu | Winner |
| 2011 | Jane Gordon-Cumming | The American Heiress and the Scottish Rake: The True Story of the Royal Baccarat Scandal | Winner |
| 2012 | Jane Willis | Marguerite, Byron and the Literary Factory | Winner |
| 2012 | Carrie Chandler | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Elaine Thornton | Amalia Beer: A Prussian-Jewish Life | Winner |
| 2014 | Polly Clark | Thank You So Much for Writing | Winner |
| 2015 | Francesca Wade | Square Haunting | Winner |
| 2016 | Sarah Watling | Noble Savages | Winner |
| 2016 | Judy O’Kane | Thirst | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Deborah Spring | A Woman of Ideas: Lady Anne Bacon 1528–1610 | Shortlist |
| 2017 | John Woolf | Queen Victoria's Freaks: The Performers at Buckingham Palace | Winner |
| 2017 | Lin Rose Clark | The Boxing Parson of Killarney | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Oli Hazzard | Enter a Cloud: A Book on/with/for/after W.S. Graham | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Susan Kelly | Willibald’s Journey | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Philip Ward | Every Other Inch a Gentleman: The Lives of Michael Arlen | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Harriet Baker | Rural Hours: Interwar Female Writers, Landscape and Living | Winner |
| 2018 | Susan Karen Burton | Gaijin: Modern Japan Through Western Eyes | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Patrick Donovan | Who Killed Arnold Bennett? The Wife, the Mistress and Virginia Woolf | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Susan Dunne | Parallel Lives: The Literary Friendship of Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Katharine Campbell | Behold the Dark Gray Man: The Life and Times of Sholto, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Tom Seymour Evans | The Canyons: Six British Exiles, Los Angeles and the Counterculture | Winner |
| 2019 | Emma Bielecki | The Lives of Vidocq: From King of Thieves to Prince of Policemen | Shortlist |
| 2019 | J S Casey | Isabel Rawsthorne: An Artist in Paris and Soho | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Jay Prosser | Empire’s Loving Strangers: Journeys Through an Asian-Jewish Camphorwood Chest | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Joe Stadolnik | The Unsettled Life of Duarte Brandao | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Lois K. Yorke | The Life and Times of a Difficult Woman: Anna Harriette Leonowens (1831–1915). | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Kate Crehan | But Will it Get a Laugh? The Life of Doris Hare in Three Acts | Winner |
| 2020 | Brad Bigelow | Failures: Six Ways to be Forgotten | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Alex Grant | The Last Imposter: The Enigma of John Stonehouse | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Gerry Harrison | Good Guy or Bad Guy: The Enigmas of Reggie Smith | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Jayne Sharratt | Amabel Williams-Ellis and The Art of Being a Woman | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Sophie Shorland | The Portingall Queen | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Sarah Harkness | Alexander Macmillan, Advocate for the Ignorant:The Life and Times of a Victorian Publisher | Winner |
| 2021 | Helen Bain | Court Green: Sylvia Plath in Devon 1961-2 | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Sharon Mather | Poets, Painters and Players: The Private Life of Edward Marsh | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Amy Ripley | Passion and Power: The Life and Loves of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Jane Winter | All Things to All Men: The Fate of Rupert Brooke | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Benjamin Wright | Centurion of the Inner Circle: The Secret Service of Ronnie Sinclair | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Catherine Haig | An Unfinished Life: Lady Gwendolen Cecil (1860–1945) | Winner |
| 2022 | Tara McEvoy | Padraic Fiacc: Poet of the Pagan City | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Annette Rubery | The Female Rake: Peg Woffington’s Scandalous Life on the Georgian Stage | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Andrew Kenrick | Juba--From Roman Slave to African King | Winner |
| 2023 | Victoria Baena | A Sentimental Education: Amélie Bosquet, Gustave Flaubert, and the Writer’s Vocation in Nineteenth-Century France | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Stephanie Genty | Bitter Strength: The Life and Work of Marilyn French, Feminist | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Sue Laurence | Ada Chesterton: Fleet Street Bohemian and Adventurer | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Andrew Moscrop | Upriver, after Fred: A Thames Journey | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Matthew Zipf | Renata Adler: At the Radical Middle | Shortlist |