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Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) was a British politician, diplomat, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster, and gardener. His wife was the writer Vita Sackville-West .
Há 4 dias · Sir Harold Nicolson was a British diplomat and author of more than 125 books, including political essays, travel accounts, and mystery novels. His three-volume Diaries and Letters (1966–68) is a valuable document of British social and political life from 1930 to 1964.
by Howard Coster, 1935. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Nicolson, Sir Harold George ( 1886–1968 ), diplomatist and politician, was born at the British legation, Tehran, on 21 November 1886, the third son of Arthur Nicolson, first Baron Carnock (1849–1928), and his wife, (Mary) Katharine Rowan (d. 1951), the youngest daughter of ...
Harold George Nicolson was born at the British Legation in Tehran, Persia, on 21 November 1886, the third son of Arthur Nicolson, Acting Chargé d'Affaires (and future Head of the Foreign Office), and his wife, Catherine Rowan Hamilton, a member of a prominent Anglo‐Irish Protestant family.
Harold Nicolson (1886–1968) is deservedly remembered for his many achievements and for his intriguing character: diplomat, diarist, prolific author, controversialist, and husband of the one and only Vita Sackville‐West. Several of these roles came together in one of his most notable letters.
Abstract. Sir Harold Nicolson was seen during his lifetime, and has been regarded since his death, as a gifted authority on diplomacy. He was also the twentieth-century heir to a tradition of Western diplomatic theorists who espoused diplomatic values deriving from ancient Greek and Roman political theory and history.
On leave from his diplomatic post in Constantinople he married Vita Sackville-West in 1913 in the chapel at Knole, Kent. She was the daughter of Lord Sackville, and in his house at Knole there were 365 rooms: it had been a 16th-century present from Queen Elizabeth I to Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset.
