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'''Long Crichel''' is a [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] in east [[Dorset]], [[England]], situated on [[Cranborne Chase]] five [[mile]]s north east of [[Blandford Forum]]. The hamlet has a [[population]] of 81 ({{As of|2001}}). |
'''Long Crichel''' is a [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] in east [[Dorset]], [[England]], situated on [[Cranborne Chase]] five [[mile]]s north east of [[Blandford Forum]]. The hamlet has a [[population]] of 81 ({{As of|2001}}). |
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Long Critchel House was bought in 1945 by [[Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville]], the music critic [[Desmond Shawe-Taylor (music critic)|Desmond Shawe-Taylor]] and art critic [[Eardley Knollys]], who established "what in effect was a male salon, entertaining at the weekends a galaxy of friends from the worlds of books and music" in Long Crichel, including [[James Lees-Milne]], a close friend of Knollys. By the mid-1960s Sackville and Knollys |
Long Critchel House was bought in 1945 by [[Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville]], the music critic [[Desmond Shawe-Taylor (music critic)|Desmond Shawe-Taylor]] and art critic [[Eardley Knollys]], who established "what in effect was a male salon, entertaining at the weekends a galaxy of friends from the worlds of books and music" in Long Crichel, including [[James Lees-Milne]], a close friend of Knollys. By the mid-1960s Sackville, who died in 1965, and Knollys had been replaced by the literary critic [[Raymond Mortimer]] and [[Patrick Trevor-Roper]].<ref>De-la-Noy, Michael. "West, Edward Charles Sackville-, fifth Baron Sackville (1901–1965)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 9 December 2009 - quote from here; [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/patrick-trevorroper-755503.html Obituary of Trevor-Roper], ''[[The Independent]]'', May 4, 2004</ref> |
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Revision as of 14:09, 12 February 2011
Long Crichel is a hamlet in east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase five miles north east of Blandford Forum. The hamlet has a population of 81 (As of 2001[update]).
Long Critchel House was bought in 1945 by Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville, the music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor and art critic Eardley Knollys, who established "what in effect was a male salon, entertaining at the weekends a galaxy of friends from the worlds of books and music" in Long Crichel, including James Lees-Milne, a close friend of Knollys. By the mid-1960s Sackville, who died in 1965, and Knollys had been replaced by the literary critic Raymond Mortimer and Patrick Trevor-Roper.[1]
References
- ^ De-la-Noy, Michael. "West, Edward Charles Sackville-, fifth Baron Sackville (1901–1965)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 9 December 2009 - quote from here; Obituary of Trevor-Roper, The Independent, May 4, 2004
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