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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 .
30 de abr. de 2024 · 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.
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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 ...
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.
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.
Nicolson's prose style, one highly redolent of his personality, is that of a classical philhellene and Francophile at home in the world of affairs and the realm of letters—cultivated, assured, and urbane. 12 While he lived, Nicolson was acknowledged as one of the leading Western experts on diplomacy.
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.
