Alvilde lees milne biography of barack

George James Henry Lees-Milne 6 August — 28 December was an English writer and expert on country houses , who worked for the National Trust from to He was an architectural historian , novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries remain in print. His biographer Michael Bloch observed that in Another Self , Lees-Milne "conveys the impression that he hailed from an old county family and that Wickhamford was their native seat.

This was not quite the case His father He was the second of three children and the elder son of a prosperous cotton manufacturer and farmer, George Crompton Lees-Milne — , and his wife, Helen Christina — , a daughter of Henry Bailey, JP and Deputy Lieutenant of Coates, Gloucestershire. His uncle, Joseph Bailey , second baronet, was later created Baron Glanusk.

Alvilde Lees-Milne was a garden maker

Ltd, deriving a fortune mainly from a Lancashire cotton mill. His mother was "uninhibited with a streak of mental instability His brother Richard was born in The Lees-Milne family belonged to a junior branch of the Lees family that later came to own Thurland Castle , Lancashire, having been tenant farmers on an estate called Clarksfield near Oldham , which they later purchased from the Booth family of Dunham Massey in the reign of James I.

Succeeding generations became successful as "master cotton spinners and manufacturers". Though the discovery of coal on their land increased their wealth, it "did not civilise them" — Lees-Milne's great-grandfather, Joseph Lees , was "one of three barely literate brothers Joseph was "Fishing Rod". They had ties of marriage to two families he claimed to be "slightly grander": the Cromptons of Crompton Hall and the Milnes of Park House.