British diplomat, author, diarist and politician (1886–1968)
This article is about the British diplomat, writer and politician. For the former American Central Intelligence Agency officer and spy for Russia, see Harold James Nicholson.
The Honourable
Sir Harold Nicolson
KCVO CMG
Nicolson in 1939
Member of Parliament for Leicester West
In office 14 November 1935 – 15 June 1945
Preceded by
Ernest Harold Pickering
Succeeded by
Barnett Janner
Personal details
Born
Harold George Nicolson
(1886-11-21)21 November 1886 Tehran, Persian Empire
Died
1 May 1968(1968-05-01) (aged 81) Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England
Nationality
British
Political party
New Party (1931-32) National Labour (1935-45) Labour (from 1947)
Spouse
Vita Sackville-West
(m. 1913; d. 1962)
Children
Benedict Nicolson Nigel Nicolson
Parent(s)
Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock Mary Hamilton
Alma mater
Balliol College, Oxford
Occupation
British diplomat
author
diarist
politician
Sir Harold George NicolsonKCVO 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.
Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) was a British politician, diplomat, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer...
was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband HaroldNicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England...
Nicolson OBE (19 January 1917 – 23 September 2004) was an English writer, publisher and politician. Nicolson was the second son of writers Sir Harold...
Benedict Nicolson, British art historian and author, son of HaroldNicolson and Vita Sackville-West Dan Henry Nicolson, American botanist David Nicolson, 4th...
Sep 1944) of "the foolish prophecy of that nice ass Harold Macmillan". In October 1942 HaroldNicolson recorded Macmillan as predicting "extreme socialism"...
and Hendrick Terbrugghen (1958). Nicolson was born on 6 August 1914. He was the elder son of authors HaroldNicolson and Vita Sackville-West and the brother...
written by HaroldNicolson and first published by Penguin Books on 7 November 1939 shortly after the Second World War began. In the book, Nicolson explores...
University Press, 1968), p. 206. HaroldNicolson, The Evolution of Diplomacy (New York: Collier, 1962) at 107. HaroldNicolson, The Congress of Vienna: A Study...
Under-Secretary in the Foreign Office, Sir Arthur Nicolson, 11th Baronet. The Nicolson family descends from Thomas Nicolson. In 1636 he was created a Baronet, of...
the resolutely working-class character of the Labour Party and cited HaroldNicolson as a case in point. In April 1935, a volume of essays by five leading...
Sackville-West and HaroldNicolson is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals...
Bachelor's Cottage Clay, p. 154; Nicolson, p. 51; Rose, p. 97 HaroldNicolson's diary quoted in Sinclair, p. 107 Nicolson's Comments 1944–1948, quoted in...
by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband HaroldNicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of...
William Caxton, the house was later the home of Vita Sackville-West and HaroldNicolson. During their ownership, the house is also notable for famous residents...
tried only on the Morrell charge. In his book Why Britain is at War, HaroldNicolson used Smith's repeatedly murderous behaviour as a parallel to Hitler's...
writers Vita Sackville-West and HaroldNicolson. She is the sister of the writer Adam Nicolson, and the publisher Rebecca Nicolson. Between 1976 and 1994 she...
Sackville-West, Vita (1967). "letter of 4 June 1940 to HaroldNicolson". In Nicolson, Nigel (ed.). HaroldNicolson Diaries and Letters 1939–1945. London. p. 93...
Middlemas and Barnes, pp. 1006–7. HaroldNicolson, Diaries and Letters. 1930–1939 (London: Collins, 1966), pp. 285–286. Nicolson, p. 286. Foreign News: Baldwin...
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