(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Harrington Clare Lees (1870–1929), Anglican archbishop of Melbourne James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English writer and expert on country houses Jack Lees (footballer)...
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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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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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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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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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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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Britain in the field of the arts notable diaries were published by James Lees-Milne, Roy Strong and Peter Hall. Harold Nicolson in the mid-20th century...
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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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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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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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the charity acquired. The writer and National Trust administrator James Lees-Milne recorded his impressions of the house and its owners in a diary entry...
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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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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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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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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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(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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forward Nathaniel Micklem, British Liberal Party politician and lawyer James Lees-Milne, architectural historian Tom Mitford, brother of the Mitford Sisters...
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