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Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Berners (1882–1950)

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(eng) usually known as Lord Berners

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Baron Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson,
Geburtstag
1882-09-18
Todestag
1950-04-19
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
England, UK
Geburtsort
Shropshire, England, UK
Sterbeort
Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Wohnorte
Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Ausbildung
Cheam School
Eton College
Berufe
composer
writer
eccentric
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usually known as Lord Berners

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This is Lord Berners' account of his Eton years. The gossip, intrigue, rumors, cliques, friendships and shunning were as intense as today with social media. In this one he goes deeper into appreciating and playing music, though his family still wants him to become a diplomat.
I'm eager to start the next volume now but it's in transit from a bookmonger.
 
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piemouth | Jul 2, 2023 |
An ARC I received when my favorite bookstore was closing (RIP, Harry W Schwartz), it just looked like a slim little book about Dresden. However, this is a wonderful memoir of Dresden written by a famous composer/painter/novelist (of whom I'd never heard before) about his formative years spent in Germany, ostensibly learning the language, but it's also about society in general and the people he stays with. It's really excellent, very readable, interesting - I'll be looking for the rest of his memoirs for sure. Four stars.… (mehr)
 
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LauraBrook | Feb 18, 2011 |
Berners was a great English eccentric, a composer, novelist, painter and conspicuous aesthete whose friends included Gerturde Stein, Diaghilev and Sacherverell Sitwell. The character of Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's THE PURSUIT OF LOVE of Love is based on Lord Berners, who used to dip his pigeons into basins of magenta, green and ultramarine so that when released they resembled, Mitford wrote, 'a cloud of confetti in the sky'.
 
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antimuzak | Sep 20, 2009 |

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