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28 de dez. de 2022 · 25 years after his death, Mark McGinness remembers the great architectural historian and country house saviour, James Lees-Milne (1908-97) It all began one rowdy night in 1936 at a dinner at the Jacobean mansion, Rousham Park, near Oxford, where, after the port, the drunken young host, who was renting the house, took to the family portraits with a hunting crop and shot appendages off 18th ...
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.
In 1936, James Lees-Milne became Country Houses secretary of the infant National Trust. Already fired with compassion for ancient architecture, 'so vulnerable and transient', he could now pursue what amounted to a vocation.
James Lees-Milne (1908-1997)--known to friends as Jim--is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England’s greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as "the 20th-century Pepys."
1 de nov. de 2009 · James Lees-Milne (1908 1997) known to friends as Jim is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England’s greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as "the 20th-century Pepys."
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