Sir Harold Nicolson, in full Harold George Nicholson, (born November 21, 1886, Tehrān, Iran—died May 1, 1968, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England), British diplomat and author of more than 125 books, including political essays, travel accounts, and mystery novels.
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Globo Livros. Escritor e político, Sir Harold George Nicolson (1886-1968) era filho de nobre diplomata e nasceu em Teerã. Atuou no serviço diplomático inglês de 1909 a 1929. Na década de 1930, já como membro do parlamento, foi um dos primeiros entre seus pares a denunciar o perigo representado pelo avanço do fascismo na Europa.
23 de set. de 2004 · 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 Captain Archibald Rowan Hamilton of Killyleagh Castle, co ...
Sir 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.
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Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia, the youngest son of diplomat Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He spent his boyhood in various places throughout Europe and the Near East and followed his father's frequent postings, including in St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Madrid, Sofia and Tangier. He was educated at The Grange Sch...
In 1909, Nicolson joined HM Diplomatic Service. He served as attaché at Madrid from February to September 1911 and as Third Secretary at Constantinople from January 1912 to October 1914. In 1913, Nicolson married the novelist Vita Sackville-West. Nicolson and his wife practised what would now be called an open marriage, with...
From 1930 to 1931, Nicolson edited the Londoner's Diary for the Evening Standard, but disliked writing about high-society gossip and quit within a year. In 1931, he joined Sir Oswald Mosley and his recently-formed New Party. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament for the Combined English Universities in the general election th...
Encouraged in his literary ambitions by his wife, who was also a writer, Nicolson published a biography of French poet Paul Verlaine in 1921, which was followed by studies of other literary figures such as Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne and Sainte-Beuve. In 1933, he wrote an account of the Paris Peace Conference Peacemaking 1919...
He and his wife had two sons, Benedict, an art historian, and Nigel, a politician and writer. Nigel later published works by and about his parents, including Portrait of a Marriage, their correspondence, and Nicolson's diary. In 1930, Vita Sackville-West acquired Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook in Kent. There the couple crea...
He was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1953 as a reward for writing the official biography of George V, which had been published the previous year. There is a blue plaque commemorating him and his wife on their house in Ebury Street, London SW1.
Bristow-Smith, Laurence. Harold Nicolson: Half-an-Eye on History. Letterworth Press, 2014. ISBN 978-2-9700654-5-6.Cannadine, David. "Portrait of More Than a Marriage: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West Revisited", from Aspects of Aristocracy, pp. 210–42. (Yale University Press, 1994), ISBN 0-300-05981-7.Dawkins, Charlie. "Harold Nicolson, Ulysses, Reithianism: Censorship on BBC Radio, 1931". Review of English Studies 67.280 (2016): 558-578. onlineDrinkwater, Derek. Sir Harold Nicolson & International Relations, (Oxford University Press, 2005), ISBN 0-19-927385-5.Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Harold NicolsonHarold Nicolson at Find a GraveNewspaper clippings about Harold Nicolson in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW15 de mar. de 2023 · Beginning in the nineteenth century, scientists speculated that the Pleistocene megafauna—species such as the giant ground sloth, wooly mammoth, and saber-tooth cat—perished because of rapid climate change accompanying the end of the most recent Ice Age. In the 1950s, a small network of ecologists challenged this view in collaboration with archeologists who used the new tool of radiocarbon ...
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