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    Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet CH CBE (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his...
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    descent through female lines from the Plantagenets. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire...
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    The Sitwells (Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell), from Scarborough, North Yorkshire and the family seat of Renishaw Hall, were three siblings...
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    was descended from the Plantagenets in the female line. Sitwell had two younger brothers, Osbert (1892–1969) and Sacheverell (1897–1988), both distinguished...
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  • great-nephew of writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet and of poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell. He is the heir presumptive to the Sitwell baronetcy currently...
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  • Sitwell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A member of the Sitwell literary family: Edith Sitwell Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell...
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  • Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet. He is the great-nephew of writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet, and of poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell. He inherited...
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    three children: Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 - 9 December 1964) Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet (6 December 1892 -...
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    was succeeded by his elder son. Sir (Francis) Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet (1892–1969). Sitwell fought as a captain in the First World War, in...
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  • 1900 – 1983) was a crime fiction novelist and the longtime partner of Osbert Sitwell. David Stuart Horner was born on 29 July 1900, the son of John Stuart...
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  • ornithologist and herpetologist Osbert Sitwell (1892−1969), English writer Alphonse Osbert (1857-1939), French painter William Fitz Osbert (died 1196), champion...
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  • A Place of One's Own (novel) (category Works by Osbert Sitwell)
    author Osbert Sitwell that was published in 1940. Belonging to the ghost story genre, the novel was an extension of a short story that Sitwell had previously...
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  • Left Hand, Right Hand! (category Works by Osbert Sitwell)
    autobiography in five volumes by the English poet and man of letters Osbert Sitwell. It relates in opulent detail the story of the author's early life in...
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  • atmospheric ghost story based on the 1940 novel of the same title by Osbert Sitwell, it stars James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price...
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    Loelia Ponsonby Anthony Powell Elizabeth Russell Edith Sitwell Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell Eleanor Smith David Tennant Stephen Tennant Henry Thynne...
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    "pretty little caps, with bebe ribbon, tiny roses and puce trimmings." Osbert Sitwell, introducing the 1943 Collected Poems of W. H. Davies, recalled Davies...
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  • excessive. Sitwell with his two siblings, Edith Sitwell and Osbert Sitwell, known collectively as the Sitwells, formed an identifiable literary and artistic...
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  • cooking and pets. His pseudonym combined a reference to the writer Osbert Sitwell with his mother's maiden name. Blakeston was born to a family of Austrian...
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    Rattigan Leslie Stephen Andrew Robinson Percy Bysshe Shelley Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell Horace Walpole Guy Walters Robert Boyle, chemist John Gurdon...
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  • discovered that her surname was spelled Leggatt, and that she worked for Osbert Sitwell in the 1930s, for MI5 during the Second World War and later for the...
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    weekends" so he decided to strike out on his own. Under the patronage of Osbert Sitwell he put on his first exhibition in the Cooling Gallery, London. It caused...
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    Belshazzar's Feast (Walton) (category Works by Osbert Sitwell)
    The work has remained one of Walton's most celebrated compositions. Osbert Sitwell selected the text from the Bible, primarily the Book of Daniel and Psalm...
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  • included C. E. M. Joad, Sir Julian Huxley, Algernon Blackwood, Sir Osbert Sitwell and Lord Amwell. Following Price's death in 1948, the club was again...
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    circle which included Oscar Wilde's friend Robbie Ross, writer and poet Osbert Sitwell, and Scottish writer C. K. Scott Moncrieff, the translator of Marcel...
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    Walter Sisulu (1912–2003; aged 90), South African freedom fighter. Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969; aged 76), English writer. A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990; aged...
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    McNabb, diagnoses a Cinderella complex with Celia Austin. And in 1960 Osbert Sitwell published the comedy The Cinderella Complex. In the movie Tootsie, Teri...
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  • architect of the 19th century Mary Shelley author of Frankenstein Osbert Sitwell (Carlyle Square) George Smiley (9 Bywater Street) Fictional Character...
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    Renishaw Hall (category Sitwell family)
    George Sitwell succeeded in his infancy) and 1965, when Sir Osbert Sitwell (brother of Edith) gave the house to his nephew, Sir Reresby Sitwell, 7th Baronet...
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  • mind" whose recipes were popular during the 1930s and 1940s. Her friend Osbert Sitwell described her book Lady Sysonby's Cookbook as "varied, historic, traditional...
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    Two World Wars, Haileybury, Hertford: The Haileybury Society (2002) Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences (1950) Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, In Search of Rex...
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