Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic, and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque.
10 Facts About Sacheverell Sitwell
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Sacheverell Sitwell produced some 50 volumes of poetry and some 50 works on art, music, architecture, and travel.
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Sacheverell Sitwell was the youngest child of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall.
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Sacheverell Sitwell claimed a descent through female lines from the Plantagenets.
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Sacheverell Sitwell was a member of White's and St James's clubs.
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Sacheverell Sitwell was an early member of the New Party, a group established in 1931 by Oswald Mosley and containing former members of the major British political parties.
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Sacheverell Sitwell became the 6th baronet, inheriting the title when Osbert died in 1969.
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Sacheverell Sitwell was made a Companion of Honour in 1984.
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Sacheverell Sitwell died aged 90 in October 1988, and is buried in the churchyard of Weedon Lois in Northamptonshire, next to his wife Georgia, who predeceased him, and near his sister Edith.
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Sacheverell Sitwell concluded that many, though not all, cases could be explained by human trickery and hysteria.