(1886–1968)
a British diplomat and the writer of 125 books, of which his Diaries and Letters (1968) is the best-known. He was a Member of Parliament from 1935 to 1945, and was made a knight in 1953. He married Vita Sackville-West in 1913, and their marriage survived, in spite of both of them having homosexual affairs, until her death in 1962.