1. Nigel Nicolson was an English writer, publisher and politician.
10 Facts About Nigel Nicolson
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Nigel Nicolson was sent to board at Summer Fields, a prep school in Oxford; he then attended Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.
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Nigel Nicolson worked as a broadcaster and was a member of the Ancient Monuments Board.
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Nigel Nicolson was elected Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East and Christchurch at a by-election in February 1952, when the previous MP, Brendan Bracken, was elevated to the House of Lords.
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Nigel Nicolson was re-elected in the seat in the general election of May 1955.
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Nigel Nicolson lost the members' vote and was forced to step down at the general election of October 1959.
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Nigel Nicolson co-wrote a celebrated 1973 book on his parents, Portrait of a Marriage.
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Nigel Nicolson edited his father's diaries and, with Joanne Trautmann, the letters of Virginia Woolf.
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In 1953, Nigel Nicolson married Philippa, the daughter of Sir Gervais Tennyson d'Eyncourt, and they had two daughters, Rebecca, a publisher, and Juliet, a historian, and a son, Adam, a writer.
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Nigel Nicolson died on 23 September 2004, at Sissinghurst Castle, in Kent.