Nigel Nicolson (1917-2004), Publisher, editor and author; politician
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Nigel Nicolson was the younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West. After an education at Balliol College, Oxford, he served in the Grenadier Guards before becoming an MP in 1951. Best known as the Director of the publishers Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1948-92) and as a biographer, editor and journalist.
by Brian Shuel
modern bromide print from an original negative, 1973
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by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
C-type colour print, 1986
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Sackville-West
Related People
Adam Nicolson (son)
Benedict Nicolson (brother)
Sir Harold George Nicolson (father)
Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville (grandfather)
Victoria Mary ('Vita') Sackville-West (mother)
Category
Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Politics, Government and Diplomacy
Place
Oxfordshire
