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28 de dez. de 2022 · 25 years after his death, Mark McGinness remembers the great architectural historian and country house saviour, James Lees-Milne (1908-97) It all began one rowdy night in 1936 at a dinner at the Jacobean mansion, Rousham Park, near Oxford, where, after the port, the drunken young host, who was renting the house, took to the family portraits with a hunting crop and shot appendages off 18th ...
18 de fev. de 2021 · James Lees-Milne at Posillipo(George) James Henry Lees-Milne, born 6 August 1908, was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries remain in print.James and his mother HelenLees-Milne was born on 6 August 1908 at Wickhamford Manor, Worcestershire. His ...
1 de jan. de 1970 · James Lees-Milne. James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses. He was a noted biographer and historian, and is also considered one of the twentieth century's great diarists. He came from a family of landed gentry and grew up in Worcestershire. He attended Lockers Park Prep School, Eton and Oxford University.
28 de dez. de 1997 · Architectural Historian and preservationist; diarist. Lees-Milne was eldest son of George Crompton Lees-Milne (1880-1949), a Lancashire mill-owner, and Helen Christina Bailey (Lees-Milne) (1884-1962). He attended Lockers Park boarding school (Hempstead Hertfordshire), Eton College, 1921-1926, and Grenoble University, 1927-1928, before entering ...
24 de fev. de 2014 · James Lees-Milne continued to write popular novels, autobiographical works and diaries during these years and started to gain recognition for his works outside of the field of architecture. In 1974, Alvilde and Milne moved to Bath together, where they remained for the rest of their lives.
19 de mai. de 2020 · Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne. The Life. I read the first volume of James Lees-Milne’s edited diaries, Ancestral Voices, which cover the years 1942-43, and was both repelled by his spiky and judgemental personality, and intrigued by his account of social history and the Blitz experience. But the diaries were very edited, and JLM assumed ...
The Lees-Milne family lived at Wickhamford Manor during the early twentieth century. James Lees-Milne (1908 - 1997) was a writer with a special interest in historic houses. From 1936 to 1950 he worked for the National Trust and played a key role in the first large-scale transfer of country houses from private ownership to the National Trust.
