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Nigel Heseltine (3 July 1916〔(Descendants of Edward Heleltine, shelwin.com )〕 – 1995) was an English author, of travel books, short stories, plays, and poetry, and worked as an Agronomist for the UN FAO. ==Biography== Heseltine was born in London in 1916, the son of Philip Heseltine, the composer better known as Peter Warlock, and Minnie Lucy Channing, an occasional model for Augustus John, nicknamed "Puma". In his memoir, "Capriol for Mother", however, Heseltine claims that his mother was a Swiss woman, a friend of Juliette Huxley. He spent most of his childhood In Wales with Warlock's mother and Welsh stepfather at Cefyn Bryntalch and attended Shrewsbury School. This led to the confusion that Nigel himself was Welsh - he was not. In 1937 he travelled on foot across Albania and wrote of his experience in "Scarred Background". In 1938 he married Natalia Borisovna Galitzine or Galitzina, an aristocrat in Budapest. He married at least four more times.〔Amongst these, to Jean Stoney, divorced from Louis le Brocquy in 1948.〕 During World War II he was in Dublin, working as a playwright for the Olympia Theatre company of Shelagh Richards (1903–1985).〔(Nigel Heseltine )〕 In the 1950s he was based in Rome working as an agronomist for the United Nations Food And Agricultural Organisation. During this time he travelled widely across Africa eventually settling in Madagascar for twelve years and then on Rodriguez Island as Resident Commissioner. Later he wrote several books about Africa, including a classic account of crossing the Sahara - "From Libyan Sands to Chad", and "Madagascar". Towards the end of his career he was employed by the Department for Aboriginal Affairs in Western Australia travelling extensively in the Outback. He retired in Perth where he died in 1995. 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「Nigel Heseltine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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