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Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist.
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Their daughter, born in 1892, was the writer, poet, and gardener Vita Sackville-West. The family lived mainly at Knole House , an estate that had been in the Sackville family for centuries. Victoria was notorious for beginning and dropping various money-making schemes, some intended for supposedly charitable aims, but most for her personal use.
He is the grandson of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, and great-grandson of Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He was educated at Eaton House , Summer Fields School , [ 1 ] Eton College where he was a King's Scholar , and Magdalene College, Cambridge .
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Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia, the youngest son of diplomat Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock.He spent his boyhood in various places throughout Europe and the Near East and followed his father's frequent postings, including in St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Madrid, Sofia, and Tangier. [1]
Nicolson was born on 6 August 1914. He was the elder son of authors Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West and the brother of writer and politician Nigel.His godmothers were Violet Trefusis, Olive Custance and Rosamund Grosvenor.
Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (1827–1908) diplomat; Lionel Sackville-West, 6th Baron Sackville (1913–2004) stockbroker; Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) author, member of the Bloomsbury group; John Salako (born 1969) association footballer; James Sharman (living) TV producer and sportscaster; host of The Footy Show on The Score