Nigel Nicolson
| Nigel Nicolson | |
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| Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East and Christchurch |
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In office 1952–1959 |
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| Preceded by | Brendan Bracken |
| Succeeded by | John Cordle |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 January 1917 183 Ebury Street, London |
| Died | 23 September 2004 (aged 87) |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Philippa Tennyson-d'Eyncourt |
Nigel Nicolson OBE (19 January 1917 – 23 September 2004) was an English writer, publisher and politician.
Nicolson was the son of writers Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West; he had a brother Ben, an art historian. The boys grew up in Kent, first at Long Barn, near their mother's ancestral home at Knole, and then at Sissinghurst Castle, where their parents created a famous garden. Nicolson was sent to board at Summer Fields, a prep school in Oxford; he then attended Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II he served with the Grenadier Guards, later writing their official history.
Nicolson wrote many books. He and George Weidenfeld co-founded the publishing house Weidenfeld and Nicolson, of which he was a director from 1948 to 1992. He also worked as a broadcaster and was a member of the Ancient Monuments Board. Although his father had been first a National Labour and then a Labour politician, Nigel Nicolson became active in the Conservative Party and contested Leicester North West in 1950 and Falmouth and Camborne in 1951, without success. He 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. Nicolson was re-elected in the seat in the general election of May 1955.
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