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Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet

Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt
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Born Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell
(1897-11-15)15 November 1897
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Died 1 October 1988(1988-10-01) (aged 90)
Towcester, Northamptonshire, England
Occupation Writer
Period 1918-1986
Spouse Georgia Doble (1925–1980)
Children Reresby, Francis
Relatives George Sitwell (father)
Edith Sitwell (sister)
Osbert Sitwell (brother)

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH ( /sæˈʃɛvərəl/; 15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings.

He was the youngest child of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall. His mother was the former Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Londesborough and a granddaughter of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort. She claimed a descent through female lines from the Plantagenets.

Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, he was brought up in Derbyshire and educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. In World War I he served from 1916 in the British Army, in the Grenadier Guards.


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