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Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners. A composer, author and artist, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson succeeded his uncle to the title of Baron Berners in 1918. Educated at Eton, he became an honorary attaché to the embassies at Constantinople (1909-11) and Rome (1911-19). He wrote five humorous novels and two volumes of autobiography, and ...
He was educated at Eton College and entered the diplomatic service, serving abroad in several posts, then inherited his titles in 1918. He was to become Sir Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 5th baronet and 14th Baron Berners. Bought Faringdon House, in Berkshire, where he then lived, although he spent some time in London and in Rome.
14 de jun. de 2017 · Died: April 19, 1950 - Faringdon House, England. Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14 th Baron Berners, also known as Lord Berners or Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer of classical music, novelist, painter, & conspicuous aesthete. Lord Berners was educated at Eton College, travelled widely in his youth, and served as a diplomat before ...
In Rome during the First World War, DW became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott, and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners. View reference Wellesley, Dorothy.
marriage to a woman, Berners left him his estate and fortune upon his death on April 19, 1950. Bibliography Amory, Mark. Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric. London: Chatto and Windus, 1998. Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Lord. The Château de Résenlieu. Chappaqua: Turtle Point Press, 2000. _____. A Distant Prospect.
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt was born in 1883 at Apley Park, Shropshire, to the Hon Hugh Tyrwhitt, Captain RN, and his wife Julia. His paternal grandmother, Emma Harriet Wilson, was the 12th Baroness Berners in her own right. After Eton he entered the diplomatic service, serving as honorary attaché at Constantinople and later in Rome (1911–1919).
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson 14th Baron Berners (1884-1950) is more commonly referred to as Lord Berners. We have his dry surreal sense of humour to thank for the Folly on Folly Hill: he had the Tower built to tease the neighbours!
