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'''Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock''', [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]], [[Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]] (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea.
'''Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock''', [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]], [[Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]] (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea.


He is noted for his books ''Sea Room'' (about the [[Shiant Isles]], a group of uninhabited islands in the [[Hebrides]]); ''God's Secretaries: the making of the [[King James Bible]]''; ''The Mighty Dead'' (US title:''Why Homer Matters'') exploring the epic Greek poems; and ''The Seabird's Cry'' about the disaster afflicting the world's seabirds.
He is noted for his books ''Sea Room'' (about the [[Shiant Isles]], a group of uninhabited islands in the [[Hebrides]]); ''God's Secretaries: The Making of the [[King James Bible]]''; ''The Mighty Dead'' (US title:''Why Homer Matters'') exploring the epic Greek poems; and ''The Seabird's Cry'' about the disaster afflicting the world's seabirds.


==Biography==
==Biography==
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Nicolson has three sons, Thomas (born in 1984), William (born 1986) and Ben (born 1988), from his first marriage to Olivia Fane.<ref>[http://thepeerage.com/p14925.htm#i149250 Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock]</ref> Since 1992 Nicolson has been married to [[Sarah Raven]]. They have two daughters, Rosie (born 1993) and Molly (born 1996) and live at Perch Hill Farm<ref>[http://www.perchhill.co.uk/ Perch Hill Farm]</ref> in Sussex.
Nicolson has three sons, Thomas (born in 1984), William (born 1986) and Ben (born 1988), from his first marriage to Olivia Fane.<ref>[http://thepeerage.com/p14925.htm#i149250 Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock]</ref> Since 1992 Nicolson has been married to [[Sarah Raven]]. They have two daughters, Rosie (born 1993) and Molly (born 1996) and live at Perch Hill Farm<ref>[http://www.perchhill.co.uk/ Perch Hill Farm]</ref> in Sussex.


Between 2005 and 2009, in partnership with the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]], Nicolson led a project which transformed the {{convert|260|acre|ha}} surrounding the house and garden at Sissinghurst into a productive mixed farm, growing meat, fruit, cereals and vegetables for the National Trust restaurant.<ref>[http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article5682594.ece Sunday Times, 8 February 2009]</ref> And between 2012 and 2017, together with the [[RSPB]], the [[EU]] and [[SNH]], Nicolson and his son Tom were partners in a project to eradicate invasive predators from the Shiant Isles, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In March 2018, the islands were declared rat-free. <ref> [http:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-43242141]</ref>
Between 2005 and 2009, in partnership with the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]], Nicolson led a project which transformed the {{convert|260|acre|ha}} surrounding the house and garden at Sissinghurst into a productive mixed farm, growing meat, fruit, cereals and vegetables for the National Trust restaurant.<ref>[http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article5682594.ece Sunday Times, 8 February 2009]</ref> And between 2012 and 2017, together with the [[RSPB]], the [[EU]] and [[SNH]], Nicolson and his son Tom were partners in a project to eradicate invasive predators from the Shiant Isles, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In March 2018, the islands were declared rat-free.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-43242141 BBC: Shiant Islands in the Minch declared rat-free]</ref>


In December 2008 he succeeded his cousin [[David Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock]] as 5th [[Baron Carnock]] but he does not use the title.<ref>[http://www.rexfeatures.com/live/2009/01/31/adam_nicolson,_5th_baron_carnock_at_home_at_sissinghurst_castle?display=T rexfeatures.com Rex Features 31 January 2009, Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock at home at Sissinghurst Castle]</ref>
In December 2008 he succeeded his cousin [[David Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock]], as 5th [[Baron Carnock]] but he does not use the title.<ref>[http://www.rexfeatures.com/live/2009/01/31/adam_nicolson,_5th_baron_carnock_at_home_at_sissinghurst_castle?display=T rexfeatures.com Rex Features 31 January 2009, Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock at home at Sissinghurst Castle]</ref>


==Awards and recognition==
==Awards and recognition==
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* 2005 Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]]
* 2005 Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]]
* 2006 [[Royal United Services Institute]] [[Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature]] (shortlist) ''Men of Honour''
* 2006 [[Royal United Services Institute]] [[Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature]] (shortlist) ''Men of Honour''
* 2009 [[Royal Society of Literature]] [[Ondaatje Prize]] ''Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History''
* 2009 [[Royal Society of Literature]] [[Ondaatje Prize]] ''Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History''
* 2009 [[Samuel Johnson Prize]] (longlist) ''Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History''
* 2009 [[Samuel Johnson Prize]] (longlist) ''Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History''
* 2010 Fellow of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|Society of Antiquaries]]
* 2010 Fellow of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|Society of Antiquaries]]
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* ''Mrs Kipling: The Hated Wife'' (2001)
* ''Mrs Kipling: The Hated Wife'' (2001)
* ''Sea Room'' (2001)
* ''Sea Room'' (2001)
* ''Power and Glory: the Making of the King James Bible'' (US title: ''God's Secretaries'') (2003) (reissued in 2011 as ''When God Spoke English)
* ''Power and Glory: The Making of the King James Bible'' (US title: ''God's Secretaries'') (2003) (reissued in 2011 as ''When God Spoke English'')
* ''Seamanship'' (2004)
* ''Seamanship'' (2004)
* ''Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero'' (US title: ''Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar)'' (2005)
* ''Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero'' (US title: ''Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar)'' (2005)

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For the Canadian football player, see Adam Nicolson (Canadian football).

Adam Nicolson
Born (1957-09-12) 12 September 1957 (age 66)
Bransgore, England
OccupationWriter
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge
Period1981 to present
GenreHistory, memoir, nature, place
SpouseOlivia Fane (divorced)
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(m. 1992)​
Children5
RelativesNigel Nicolson (father)
Philippa née Tennyson-d'Eyncourt (mother)

Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock, FRSL, FSA (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea.

He is noted for his books Sea Room (about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides); God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible; The Mighty Dead (US title:Why Homer Matters) exploring the epic Greek poems; and The Seabird's Cry about the disaster afflicting the world's seabirds.

Biography

Adam Nicolson is the son of writer Nigel Nicolson and his wife Philippa Tennyson-d'Eyncourt. He is the grandson of the writers Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, and great-grandson of Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He was educated at Eaton House, Summer Fields School,[1] Eton College where he was a King's Scholar, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He has worked as a journalist and columnist on the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, National Geographic Magazine and Granta, where he is a contributing editor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

He has made several television series (with Keo Films) and radio series (with Tim Dee, the writer and radio producer) on subjects as diverse as the King James Bible, 17th-century literacy, Crete, Homer, the idea of Arcadia, the untold story of Britain's 20th-century whalers and the future of Atlantic seabirds.

Nicolson has three sons, Thomas (born in 1984), William (born 1986) and Ben (born 1988), from his first marriage to Olivia Fane.[2] Since 1992 Nicolson has been married to Sarah Raven. They have two daughters, Rosie (born 1993) and Molly (born 1996) and live at Perch Hill Farm[3] in Sussex.

Between 2005 and 2009, in partnership with the National Trust, Nicolson led a project which transformed the 260 acres (110 ha) surrounding the house and garden at Sissinghurst into a productive mixed farm, growing meat, fruit, cereals and vegetables for the National Trust restaurant.[4] And between 2012 and 2017, together with the RSPB, the EU and SNH, Nicolson and his son Tom were partners in a project to eradicate invasive predators from the Shiant Isles, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In March 2018, the islands were declared rat-free.[5]

In December 2008 he succeeded his cousin David Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock, as 5th Baron Carnock but he does not use the title.[6]

Awards and recognition

Books

  • The National Trust Book of Long Walks (1981)
  • Long Walks in France (1983)
  • Frontiers (1985)
  • Wetland (1987)
  • Two Roads to Dodge City (1988) with Nigel Nicolson
  • Prospects of England (1990)
  • On Foot: Guided Walks in England, France, and the United States (1990)
  • Restoration: Rebuilding of Windsor Castle (1997)
  • Regeneration: The Story of the Dome (1999)
  • Perch Hill: A New Life (2000)
  • Mrs Kipling: The Hated Wife (2001)
  • Sea Room (2001)
  • Power and Glory: The Making of the King James Bible (US title: God's Secretaries) (2003) (reissued in 2011 as When God Spoke English)
  • Seamanship (2004)
  • Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero (US title: Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar) (2005)
  • Earls of Paradise (US title: Quarrel with the King) (2008)
  • Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (2008/US revised edition 2010)
  • Arcadia: The Dream of Perfection in Renaissance England (a revised paperback edition of Earls of Paradise) (2009)
  • The Smell of Summer Grass (an updated edition of Perch Hill) (2011)
  • The Gentry: Stories of the English (2011)
  • The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters (US title: Why Homer Matters) (2014)
  • The Seabird's Cry: The Life and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers (2017) (US subtitle: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers (2018))
  • The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their Year of Marvels (2019 forthcoming)

Television

  • Atlantic Britain Channel 4, 2004
  • Sissinghurst BBC 4, 2009
  • When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible BBC 4, 2011
  • The Century That Wrote Itself BBC 4, 2013
  • Britain's Whale Hunters BBC 4, 2014
  • The Last Seabird Summer? BBC 4, 2016

Radio

  • Homer's Landscapes 3 x 45 mins, BBC Radio 3, 2008
  • A Cretan Spring 5 x 15 mins, with Sarah Raven, BBC Radio 3, 2009
  • Dark Arcadias 2 x 45 mins, BBC Radio 3, 2011

References

  1. ^ Adam Nicolson. Prepared for Anything. The Times Magazine, 25 June 1994. pages 24–30.
  2. ^ Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock
  3. ^ Perch Hill Farm
  4. ^ Sunday Times, 8 February 2009
  5. ^ BBC: Shiant Islands in the Minch declared rat-free
  6. ^ rexfeatures.com Rex Features 31 January 2009, Adam Nicolson, 5th Baron Carnock at home at Sissinghurst Castle
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Carnock
2008–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
Hon. Thomas Nicolson
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