Harold Nicolson
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Sir Harold George Nicolson was a British politician, writer, broadcaster and gardener. His wife was Vita Sackville-West.
Nicolson in 1939
From left to right: Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, Rosamund Grosvenor, and Lionel Sackville-West in 1913
Sissinghurst Castle
Commemorative plaque in Ebury Street, London
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the
Harold Nicolson
…works by and about his parents, including Portrait of a Marriage, their correspondence, and Nicolson's diary. In 1930, Vita Sackville-West acquired Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook in Kent. There the couple created the renowned gardens that are now run by the National Trust. He was appointed Knight Commander of the…
Aerial view in 2009: "The most famous twentieth century garden in England"
Model displayed at Sissinghurst depicting Sir Richard Baker's house circa 1560
Sackville-West's portrait by Philip de László hanging in the Big Room of the West Range
The statuary at Sissinghurst was not always of the highest quality. Anne Scott-James describes this one of Dionysus as looking "particularly depressed".