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The life of JAMES LEES-MILNE (1908-97) spanned the twentieth century; and he left his imprint on that century in a variety of ways. As the first Historic Buildings Secretary (1936-51) of the National Trust, he was instrumental in establishing that institution as the leading force in the conservation of the English country house.
JAMES LEES-MILNE (1908-97), English architectural conservationist and writer, is now best remembered for his diaries. He was an acute social observer and befriended many leading men and women of his time.
THE LIFE OF JAMES LEES-MILNE. 1908-1931: James Lees-Milne was born on 6 August 1908. Both his parents came from minor landed families which had made industrial fortunes in the 19th century; but the money was fast disappearing and JLM would receive little of it, and that late in life. His father, whom he feared, was a man of many gifts, but an ...
Although James Lees-Milne aspired to be a writer from his earliest years, he was almost middle-aged before he got a book into print. His first title, The Age of Adam, was published by Batsford in 1947, when he was thirty-eight. There followed two further works of architectural history, Tudor Renaissance (1951) and The Age of Inigo Jones (1953).
THE LIFE OF JAMES LEES-MILNE. 1908-1931: James Lees-Milne was born on 6 August 1908. Both his parents came from minor landed families which had made industrial fortunes in the 19th century; but the money was fast disappearing and JLM would receive little of it, and that late in life. His father, whom he feared, was a man of many gifts, but an ...
JAMES LEES-MILNE (1908-97), English architectural conservationist and writer, is now best remembered for his diaries. He was an acute social observer and befriended many leading men and women of his time.
The British writer James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) is perhaps best known through his published diaries of the 1940s, which chronicle his adventures as a National Trust representative in the infancy of its Historic Buildings program, his movements in London society of that period, and his daily life during World War II and its long aftermath in England.
