Somerset De Chair (1911–1995)
Autor(a) de Napoleon On Napoleon
About the Author
Séries
Obras de Somerset De Chair
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- DeChair, Somerset Struben
- Data de nascimento
- 1911-08-22
- Data de falecimento
- 1995-01-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Locais de residência
- Chilham Castle, Kent, England
Blickling Hall, Norfolk, England
St. Osyth's Priory, Essex, England
Bourne Park, Kent, England - Educação
- Oxford University (Balliol College)
- Ocupação
- novelist
politician
Member of Parliament
poet
writer - Relacionamentos
- De Chair, Helena (daughter)
Rees-Mogg, Jacob (son-in-law)
Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair (father) - Pequena biografia
- From Wikipedia: Somerset de Chair was Conservative MP for South West Norfolk and then for Paddington South. He was a Parliamentary Private Secretary from 1942 to 1944.
He wrote nonfiction, a number of now largely forgotten novels, one play, three collections of poetry, as well as a number of works of autobiography.
He was known for his extravagant taste and lived in a series of large country houses. He was married four times, lastly to Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam.
Membros
Resenhas
Napoleon on Napoleon: An Autobiography of the Emperor de Napoleon
I have this book because I love Napoleonic history, not because I regard Napoleon as particularly insightful on the subject of himself. What he was good at was finding other people's military weaknesses.
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 24
- Membros
- 126
- Popularidade
- #159,216
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 16
- Idiomas
- 2