Harold Acton
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Sir Harold Mitchell Acton (born in 1904) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete.
He wrote fiction, biography, and autobiography.
He studied Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated. He was born near Florence, Italy, to a prominent Anglo-Italian family.
He was a founding member of Eton Arts Society before heading to Oxford to read Modern Greats at Christ Church.
He co-founded The Oxford Broom magazine, mixed with a number of academic and literary figures of the time, including Evelyn Waugh, who based Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited partially on him.
Acton lived in Paris, London, and Florence, becoming the most successful as an historian during the wars, with his magnum opus being a 3-volume investigation of the Medicis and the Bourbons. He returned to Florence after being an RAF liaison officer in the Mediterranean, returning his childhood home, Villa La Pietra, to its former glory.
Acton was knighted in 1974 and died in Florence, bringing La Pietra to New York University.
Early years
Acton was born to a wealthy Anglo-American family of baronets, later promoted to the prestigious Barons Acton of Aldenham in Villa La Pietra, Italy's only one mile outside Florence, Italy's wall. Commodore John Acton, 6th Baronet (1736-1811), who married his niece, Mary Anne Acton, and who was Prime Minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV and grandfather of Roman Catholic historian Lord Acton, said he claimed that his great-grandfather was Commodore Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet (1736-1811). This association has disprovented; Harold Acton descended on Sir John Acton's brother, General Joseph Edward Acton (1737-1830), who descended on him. Both of these brothers grew up in Italy and are from Actons' Shropshire branch.
Arthur Acton (1873–1953), the illegitimate son of Eugene Arthur Roger Acton (1836–1895), was the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce's counsellor. Hortense Lenore Mitchell (1871-1972), his mother, was a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago (1908–1909). Arthur Acton met Hortense in Chicago while assisting with the creation of the bank's new building in 1896, and the Mitchell family encouraged Arthur Acton to buy the stunning Villa La Pietra on the hills of Florence, where Harold Acton lived for a large part of his life. The only modern furniture in the villa was in the nurseries, and that was discarded as the children got older (Harold's younger brother William Acton was born in 1906).
Personal life
Acton was a member of the Catholic Church of the United Kingdom, 151f’s cultural and historical contribution to the faith remained unchanged throughout his life. Acton's name appeared first on a petition brought to Rome by British cultural élite in 1971, requesting that the traditional Latin rite of the Mass not be abrogated in England. 359 His mother, the heiress Hortense Lenore Mitchell Mitchell, who lived to his 90th birthday, did not make life easy for him, but he also remained the faithful and admiring uncle.
Acton, who was a leading member of the Bright Young Things in 1920s London, was a central figure of the group.
Author A. N. Wilson said after Acton's death, "today would be to misunderstand the entire essence of his being" and that "being asexual is more asexual than anything else." Acton's time at Oxford as a "virtile aesthete-dandy" led to a classified government paper describing him as a "scandalous debauchee" and barred him from serving in the intelligence services when war broke out in China. Plante also referred to the young men who arrived in La Pietra, including Alexander Zielcke, a German photographer and artist who was Acton's lover for the first twenty-five years.
Acton died after transferring Villa La Pietra to New York University. Acton expressed his wish that the estate be used as a meeting place for students, faculty, and visitors who may study, teach, write, and conduct research, as well as as a center for international programs. DNA testing revealed the presence of a half-sister born out of wedlock, whose heirs also filed a lawsuit against Acton's $500 million bequest to New York University following his death.
In the southern suburb of Florence, Galluzzo (Italy), Acton was buried alongside his parents and brother.
Career and education
He began his training at Miss Penrose's private school in Florence. Kenneth Clark, a pupil at Wixenford Preparatory School in southern England in 1913, was a student at the University of Reading. Submarine attacks on shipping had made the trip to England hazy, and Harold and his brother were sent in September by Chateau de Lancy, a French international school near Geneva. In the fall of 1917, he went to a "crammers" at Ashlawn in Kent to be fit for Eton, which he accepted on May 1st. Eric Blair (the writer George Orwell), Cyril Connolly, Alec Douglas-Home, Douglas-Home, Ian Fleming, Alan Howard, Oliver Messel, Steven Runciman, and Henry Yorke were among his contemporaries at Eton. Acton became a founding member of the Eton Arts Society in his final years, and eleven of his poems were included in The Eton Candle, edited by his friend Brian Howard.
Acton went to Oxford in October 1923 to read Modern Greats at Christ Church. He regained passages from The Waste Land through a megaphone from his balcony in Meadow Buildings, which was the subject of an episode in Brideshead Revisited based on Anthony Blanche's character. He co-founded The Oxford Broom, Oxford's avant garde journal, and published his first book of poems, Aquarium (1923). Acton was revered as a leading figure of his day, and his memoirs of the period were often given greater prominence than those of younger people; for example, the Welsh playwright Emlyn Williams recalled this encounter with Acton in his autobiography George (1961): he was born in Acton. (1961): 61.
In Acton's review of Dorian Gray in the Oxford student newspaper Cherwell, "a charming boy's book, we'd recommend a cheap version to fit comfortably into a school blazer's wallet"; and Acton's modernist approach to literature: "But if one finds the words, my dears, there is beauty in a black-pudding."": 314
Acton dominated the Railway Club, which included Henry Yorke, Roy Harrod, Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, William James Fox-Strangways, 7th Earl of Ilchester, 4th Earl of Rosse, John Sutro, Hughlygon, Arthur Thomas, 6th Earl of Norwich, Edward Duryne, William Thomas Gibson, Thomas Moore, 6th Baron Moyne, Thomas Moore, George Henry Foley, Patrick Duryne, Richard Ogilon The Railway Club debad Baron, Henry George Moyne, 6th Marquess, 6th Marquess of Bath, 6th, 6th, 6th Marquess, 5th, 7th Marquess, John Murray, Michael Parsons, James Watson, 6th, 6th, 4th, 3ro, 7th, 6th, 4th, 2nd, 2nd, Edward George Parsons, 2nd Baron, Richard, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd Baron, Matthew Parsons, John Sutro, 2nd Baron 5th, 6th The 6th ; 6th Edward Haughe, 5th Parsons, 2nd Baron Moy-Grant, Edward John, 6th, 4th Baron Moyne, 3ro, 6th Monkirk, 7th Earl of Bath, 4th Baron Solicity, John Sutro, 3ro 6th Earl of Bath, Patrick Baron Moy-Lowe, 2nd Baron Moy-Grant, John Sutro, 2nd Baron Moy, 2nd Baron Moy-Grant, 2nd Baron Moy-Grant, 2nd Baron Moy-Grant, 2nd Baron Moy-Grant, 2nd Baron Moy-Grant, 2nd Baron Brown, 3ro, 4th Marquesshe
Evelyn Waugh's books were based on people he knew. Acton is said to have inspired, at least in part, the character of "Anthony Blanche" in Waugh's book Brideshead Revisited (1945). "There is an aesthetic bugger who occasionally appears in my books under various names," Waugh wrote in a letter to Lord Baldwin. [Howard] and 1/3 Harold Acton] were two third Brian [Howard] and 1/3 Harold Acton. People believe it was all Harold, who is a much sweeter and saner guy [than Howard]]. "The characters in my books were often mistakenly identified with Harold Acton," 505 Waugh wrote.
Acton acted as a special constable during the general strike, apolitical as he was, and obtained his degree in 1926. In October, he rented an apartment in Paris, 29 Quai de Bourbon, and had his portrait painted by Pavel Tchelitcheff. Acton, who migrated between Paris and London in the next few years, wanted to find his voice as a writer. In 1927, he began writing a novel and an Appendix, a third book of poems, came out early the following year. In March, Cornelian, a prose fable, was next to this. Acton was named Best Man at Evelyn Waugh's wedding to the Honourable Evelyn Gardner in July. Acton's Decline and Affection was devoted to Acton's 'in Homage and Affection,' but when Acton's own book, 'British Humdrum,' first appeared in October 1928, it was slated in comparison to Decline and Fall by critics such as Cyril Connolly.
Harold Moody in the 1920s frequented Lady Cunard's London salon, where he met Ezra Pound, Joseph Duveen, and Irish novelist George Moore at various times. On his visits to Florence, he reconnected with Norman Douglas, who wrote an introduction to Acton's translation of a luscious 18th-century memoir of Giangastone de' Medici, The Last of the Medici, a franking 18th-century memoir published in Florence in 1930 as part of the Lungarno Series. This Chaos, Acton's companion Nancy Cunard's book "This Chaos," was released in Paris, but the Giangastone translation pointed in a more promising direction. History would have been much more congenial to Acton than poetry. His Last Medici (not to be confused with the earlier book of a similar name) was published in 1932 by Faber, the first in a series of important contributions to Italian historical research.
Alan Pryce-Jones, a close observer, felt that Acton was trivial because he, as his father, was a hard worker and an attentive scholar. The East was a daredevil. As Beijing was then known, he took up residence in Peking, which he found congenial. He wrote about Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry. He published respected translations of Peach Blossom Fan and Modern Chinese Poetry (1936), both in collaboration with Ch'en Shihsiang and The Famous Chinese Plays (1937), which were published in collaboration with L.C. During his time as a writer in 1932 to 1939. Arlington is located in Arlington, Texas. Peonies and Ponies (1941), Robert Leo Varadkar's book, is a scathing reflection of expatriate life. Glue and Lacquer (1941), selected from Feng Menglong's Tales to Rouse the World by Arthur Waley, the leading scholar-translator and member of the Bloomsbury Group, was translated by him.
The second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, but Acton did not leave until 1939, when he returned to England and joined the Royal Air Force as a liaison officer. He served in India and Ceylon at the time, before the Liberation in Paris. He returned to Florence after the war was over. La Pietra had been occupied by German troops, but the German soldier had to return it to its former glory.