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Harman Joseph Gerard Grisewood, CBE (8 February 1906 – 8 January 1997) was an English radio actor, radio and television executive, novelist and non-fiction writer.〔(The Independent, Obituary: Harman Grisewood, by Leonard Miall, 10 January 1997 )〕 He acted as literary executor to the poet David Jones, a lifelong friend. He was educated at Ampleforth College and Worcester College, Oxford. He joined the young BBC not long after graduating in 1927.〔(Georgetown University - Harman Grisewood Papers: Collection Description )〕 He was controller of the BBC Third Programme from 1948 to 1952. He is credited with the idea in 1966 for ''The Money Programme''.〔(BBC NEWS | Business | Forty years of The Money Programme )〕 In 1960 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and also became a ''Knight of Grace and Devotion'' (''Knight of Magistral Grace'') of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.〔〔 The BBC presenter Freddie Grisewood was a cousin. ==Early life== Harman Grisewood was born at Wormleybury Manor to Lieutenant Colonel Harman Joseph Mary Grisewood and Lucille Genevieve Cardozo. His mother was the youngest daughter (3 Aug 1881) of Henry O'Connell Cardozo, C.I.E. and had been brought up in India. His father was born on 20 Oct 1879 at Gatwick House, Billericay, Essex, educated at Beaumont, Downside School, and Christ Church, Oxford; and served in the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, the Fourth Hussars and 11th Bn Royal Sussex Regiment. He served as Aide-de-camp to George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston in South Africa in the Boer war. In 1909 he became Privy Chamberlain of Sword and Cape to HH Pope Pius X an honour which is known now as a Gentlemen of His Holiness. He was a handsome, unreliable, sociable wanderer who Harman described as ‘one of Baudelaire’s true travellers.〔(FamilyTreeGuide, Lucille Genevieve Cardozo )〕〔(Thame History, The Prebendal )〕 Harman had two younger brothers, Peter Henry (15 Jun 1907-1973) and Gabriel Thomas (23 Mar 1910-17 Feb 1986) who was known as ''Tucks''. His younger sister Mary Magdalen Lucy Teresa (11 Dec 1911-1950) was known as ''Missie''.〔 When he was young the family moved to the The Prebendal in Thame, Oxfordshire, a rambling 13th century house, much of it in ruins, which had its own chapel and resident Catholic priest - Father Randolph Traill.〔 In his autobiography, ''One Thing at a Time'' (1968), he described an outing with his brother, nanny, nursemaid and pram, when they were stoned by villagers as they approached the Anglican church.〔 The nursery was the centre of the children's world, whilst adults and children were 'on equal terms' in the chapel. A devout Roman Catholic, he bemoaned the demise of the Tridentine Latin Mass in 1962 but remained loyal to the Church as he explained in ''Why Am I Still a Catholic'', published in 1980. His grandmother Concetta Messina lived mainly at the ''Villa Marguerite'' at Grasse, France, where she ran an eccentric household. After his Oxford days he spent time at Grasse; in Cyprus where his family had property; and with an uncle in Malta. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harman Grisewood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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