Adam Nicolson is the 5th Baron Carnock, but does not use the title.
11 Facts About Adam Nicolson
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Adam Nicolson is the son of writer Nigel Nicolson and his wife Philippa Tennyson-d'Eyncourt.
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Adam Nicolson 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.
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Adam Nicolson was educated at Eaton House, Summer Fields School, Eton College where he was a King's Scholar, and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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Adam Nicolson has worked as a journalist and columnist on the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, National Geographic Magazine and Granta, where he is a contributing editor.
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Adam Nicolson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Adam Nicolson is noted for his books Sea Room ; God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible; The Mighty Dead exploring the epic Greek poems; The Seabird's Cry about the disaster afflicting the world's seabirds; The Making of Poetry on the Romantic Revolution in England in the 1790s; and Life Between the Tides, a boundary-crossing account of the tides in human and animal life.
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Adam Nicolson has made several television series and radio series on a variety of subjects including the King James Bible, 17th-century literacy, Crete, Homer, the idea of Arcadia, the untold story of Britain's 20th-century whalers and the future of Atlantic seabirds.
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Between 2005 and 2009, in partnership with the National Trust, Nicolson led a project which transformed the 260 acres surrounding the house and garden at Sissinghurst into a productive mixed farm, growing meat, fruit, cereals and vegetables for the National Trust restaurant.
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Adam Nicolson met his first wife, the writer Olivia Fane, when he was a student at Cambridge University.
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Adam Nicolson is married to the writer and gardener Sarah Raven, with whom he has two daughters: Rosie and Molly.