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    (George) James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August 1908 – 28 December 1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust...
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  • Alvilde Lees-Milne (née Bridges; 13 August 1909 – 18 March 1994) was a British gardening and landscape expert. Alvilde was born on 13 August 1909 in London...
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  • James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English writer and expert on country houses Lees (surname) Milne (surname) All pages with titles containing Lees-Milne This...
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    Extra - Drama, James Lees-Milne, Sometimes Into the Arms of God". BBC. Retrieved 12 June 2019. "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Drama, James Lees-Milne, The Unending...
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  • Melbourne James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English writer and expert on country houses Jack Lees (footballer) (1892–1983), English footballer Jim Lees (1919–2004)...
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  • include several about the Duke and Duchess, an authorized biography of James Lees-Milne, a study of the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe, and a biography of Frederick...
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  • notable literary figures including Harold Nicolson, Raymond Mortimer and James Lees-Milne. He left the publishers in 1938 when his mother found him a job as...
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  • Mitford (1909-1945) (lover of James Lees-Milne) Desmond Parsons (1910-1937) (lover of Harold Acton and James Lees-Milne) Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu...
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    magnetic men of his generation." He had a passionate friendship with James Lees-Milne, was the one true love of Harold Acton and the unrequited love of Robert...
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    manor house dating from the 16th century. It was the childhood home of James Lees-Milne, the writer. The manor is a Grade II listed building. The manor was...
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    Venetian window in England", Lees-Milne, The Earls of Creation, 1962:100. Summerson, 129-130 Summerson, 130 James Lees-Milne 1962:133f. Gayland, Robin (2018)...
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    Elizabeth II representing his son, the Prince of Monaco. According to James Lees-Milne, a British writer and friend of Pierre's, his unhappy arranged marriage...
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  • Bookmen and later at The Evening Standard in the 1990s. A family friend, James Lees-Milne, wrote of her beauty, "She was the nearest thing to Botticelli's Venus...
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    Duke by Robert Mylne. These are among the rooms open to the public. James Lees-Milne was not impressed by the house when he visited it in 1943, noting the...
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    1921, p. 588. James Lees-Milne describes St. Peter's Basilica as "a church with a unique position in the Christian world" in Lees-Milne 1967, p. 12. "St...
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    affair with James Lees-Milne. He later had a lengthy affair with Austrian Jewish dancer Tilly Losch during her marriage to Edward James. According to...
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    War II he hosted Eleanor Roosevelt and Haile Selassie at Badminton. James Lees-Milne, the conservationist, rented a house next door and records their poor...
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  • Jubilee Ball, July 1897. Retrieved 21 March 2013. Bloch, Michael (2009). James Lees-Milne: The Life. John Murray. p. 17. ISBN 9780719560347. "Coventry & District"...
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    He had relationships with several students there, among whom were Jim Lees-Milne and The Hon. Hamish St. Clair-Erskine (later engaged to his sister Nancy)...
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    support against Macbeth. This, according to 20th century historian James Lees-Milne, would make Eadulf the first subject of Scotland whose land ownership...
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    the early 2000s he took on Ancestral Voices, based on the diaries of James Lees-Milne written by Hugh Massingberd. His final one-man show was written and...
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    was likened to that of a 10-year-old, or a "sophisticated child" as James Lees-Milne called her (although he continues that she was "still very amusing...
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    children. Her marriage to the enormously wealthy peer was described by James Lees-Milne as "a definition of unadulterated hell". It was dissolved in 1947 after...
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    Chatsworth". Archives Hub. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2021. James Lees-Milne: The Bachelor Duke: Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of...
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    ISBN 978-1-529-38743-8. Dashwood p 114. Fergusson, James (29 December 1997), "Obituary: James Lees-Milne", The Independent, retrieved 11 March 2016 "Introducing...
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    written about Lord Carisbrooke and his wife in the published diaries of James Lees-Milne and Henry "Chips" Channon. Lord Carisbrooke, who received no state...
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    (2001). The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam. Architectural Press. ISBN 0-7506-4468-0. Lees-Milne, James (2009). Some Country Houses and Their Owners...
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    buildings in North Yorkshire Listed buildings in Farnley, North Yorkshire James Lees-Milne, Ancestral Voices, London: Chatto & Windus, 1975, p. 103 "Farnley Hall...
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    Claudius". Retrieved 12 December 2010. "BBC Radio 4 – Afternoon Drama – James Lees-Milne". Retrieved 10 July 2013. "BBC Radio 4 - The Case of Charles Dexter...
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    the endowment the Trust subsequently required, its then secretary, James Lees-Milne describing it as an "empty and rather embarrassing white elephant"...
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