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Lord Berners


(Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners)
UK flag (1883 - 1950)

Lord Berners was one of the most colourful and flamboyant personalities of his day. A composer, writer, painter, and eccentric (famous for dying his pigeons into rainbow hues), he knew everyone in the worlds of the arts and of society in the first half of the twentieth century, and formed the model for Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love. He was admired by Stravinsky, collaborated with Diaghilev and Gertrude Stein, and his five ballets were choreographed by Balanchine and Frederick Ashton.
 
 
Novels
   First Childhood (1934)
   The Girls of Radcliff Hall (1935)
   The Camel (1936)
   Count Omega (1941)
   A Distant Prospect (1945)
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