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  1. (George) James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August 1908 – 28 December 1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries remain in print.

  2. JAMES LEES-MILNE (1908-97), English architectural conservationist and writer, is now best remembered for his diaries. He was an acute social observer and befriended many leading men and women of his time.

  3. Dec 29, 1997 · Lees-Milne was an architectural historian, an able biographer, an aspirant novelist and, in Another Self (1970), his autobiography to 1942, when his diaries begin, the author of an...

  4. Dec 28, 1997 · James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses. Biography. He was a noted biographer and historian, and is also considered one of the twentieth century's great diarists. He came from a family of landed gentry and grew up in Worcestershire.

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  5. Jan 1, 1998 · James Lees-Milne, who saved the country house, died on December 28th, aged 89. Jan 1st 1998 |. THE old houses of England, James Lees-Milne once wrote, meant for him “far more than human lives”.

  6. Jan 6, 1998 · James Lees-Milne, a British architectural historian and author who played a key role in the preservation of that ornament of British life, the historic country house, died on Dec. 28 in...

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  8. Feb 24, 2014 · Undiscovered heroes of history: James Lees-Milne. James Lees-Milne is not a name that the majority of people will be familiar with. Born in 1908 to a prosperous manufacturing family in Worcestershire, England, Milne gained a top rate education at Eton College and Oxford University.