Harold Nicolson

Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG ( born November 21, 1886 in Tehran, Iran, † May 1, 1968 at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent ) was a British diplomat, author and politician.

Life

He was the younger son of the diplomat Arthur Nicolson. After the private school of Wellington, he attended Balliol College, Oxford. In 1909 he entered the diplomatic service, where he held various positions and allowed him in 1919 to participate in the Paris Peace Conference.

In 1913 he married the writer Vita Sackville- West, with whom he had two sons Benedict and Nigel. She supported him in his literary ambitions. In 1921 he published a biography of the French poet Paul Verlaine and later studies of Alfred Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, and Sainte -Beuve. In 1930 he wrote a report on the Paris conference entitled " Peacemaking, 1919 ".

In the 1930s he and his wife bought Vita Sissinghurst Castle, where they built the now famous gardens.

1931 joined Harold Nicolson Sir Oswald Mosley and the newly established New Party. After a defeat in the parliamentary elections of 1931, during which Nicolson edited the party newspaper, and after Mosley the British Union of Fascists founded (1932 ), he distanced himself from her again.

1935 moved Nicolson as Member of the National Labour Party in the House a. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Information in the 1940 wartime government of Winston Churchill.

In 1945 he lost his seat and was defeated in 1948 in a by-election. In 1953 he was knighted.

Works

  • Paul Verlaine ( 1921)
  • Sweet Waters ( 1921) novel
  • Tennyson: Aspects of His Life, Character and Poetry (1923 )
  • Byron: The Last Journey ( 1924)
  • Swinburne (1926 )
  • Some People (1926 )
  • Portrait of a diplomatist (1930 ) The plot of the diplomats. From Sir Arthur Nicolson's life from 1849 to 1928. Frankfurt Societäts- printing, Frankfurt am Main, 1930.
  • The masters of the world private. German Hermynia of the mills, Frankfurt Societäts- printing, Frankfurt am Main, 1933.
  • Peacemakers 1919. Peacemaking 1919. German by Hans Reisiger, S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1933.
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