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Harold George NicolsonSir Harold George Nicolson (1886-1968) was a British diplomat, historian, biographer, critic and journalist, and diarist of note. Harold Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia (now Iran), on November 21, 1886, where his father was British charge d'affaires. His father eventually became the first Lord Carnock, and as a child ...
Nicolson's thought, never remote or abstract, was given depth and seriousness by his life as a practitioner. Perhaps it would be more accurate to speak of a life in proximity to events or, as he put it in a diary entry in 1941, ‘someone on the edge of things’. 4 He was there, and yet he wasn't there: he was in some sense analogous to a spy, less concerned with controlling events directly ...
Harold Nicolson is remembered for many aspects of a remarkably varied life. The son of a Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, he became a successful diplomat himself, with a role in shaping the 1919 Paris peace settlement. He served as far afield as Constantinople, Tehran and, in the late 1920s, Berlin.
Diplomacy is a pursuit amenable to scholarly inquiry. As J. D. B. Miller insisted, its ‘shape’ is something scholars can reasonably claim for study. 1 Harold Nicolson's liberal realist conception of diplomacy reflected his belief, one embedded in ancient Greek and Roman ethical and political theory, that diplomacy is essential to peaceful coexistence between nation‐states and a stable ...
Early life and education. Nicolson was the second son of writers Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West; he had an elder brother Ben, an art historian.The boys grew up in Kent, first at Long Barn, near their mother's ancestral home at Knole, and then at Sissinghurst Castle, where their parents created a famous garden.
In addition to his publishing career, Nicolson was active in public life as Member of Parliament for Leicester, and a member of the Board of Governors of the BBC. With Vita Sackville-West , whom he married in 1913, he bought Sissinghurst Castle, where together they planned and tended the now-famous gardens protected by the National Trust.
Harold Nicolson. (1886-1968), Diplomat and writer; husband of Vita Sackville-West. Sir Harold George Nicolson. Sitter associated with 21 portraits. Harold Nicolson entered the Diplomatic Service in 1909. He married Vita Sackville-West in 1913 and the story of their relationship is recalled in Nigel Nicolson 's book Portrait of a Marriage (1973 ...
