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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 ...
1 de jan. de 1998 · James Lees-Milne, who saved the country house, died on December 28th, aged 89. THE old houses of England, James Lees-Milne once wrote, meant for him “far more than human lives”. In the 1930s ...
29 de dez. de 1997 · James Lees-Milne, architectural historian and writer: born Wickhamford, Worcestershire 6 August 1908; Private Secretary to the first Lord Lloyd 1931-35; staff, Reuters 1935-36; Secretary, Country ...
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.
SEE & HEAR JAMES LEES-MILNE. In 1987 and 1988, Gary Conklin ( www.garyconklinfilms.com) recorded interviews with James Lees-Milne for his film A Question of Class: English Literary Life between 1918 and 1945 (1992). These clips are included by his kind permission.
Scope and Contents. The James Lees-Milne Papers consist of correspondence, writings, and other papers of British writer and architectural historian James Lees-Milne. They span the years 1907-97, with the bulk falling between 1930-97. The papers are organized into four series: Correspondence, Writings, Other Papers, and Photographs.
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).
