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Nigel Heseltine (3 July 1916[1] – 1995) was an English author of travel books, short stories, plays, and poetry, as well as an agronomist for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. BiographyHeseltine was born in London in 1916, the son of composer Philip Heseltine, 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 misconception that Heseltine himself was Welsh. 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 four more times.[2] During World War II he was in Dublin, working as a playwright for the Olympia Theatre company of Shelagh Richards (1903–1985).[3] In the 1950s he was based in Rome working as an agronomist for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. During this time he travelled widely across Africa, eventually settling in Madagascar for twelve years, and then on Rodrigues as Resident Commissioner. Later he wrote several books about Africa, including From Libyan Sands to Chad (an account of crossing the Sahara) and Madagascar. Towards the end of his career he was employed by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs of Western Australia, travelling extensively in the Outback. He retired in Perth, where he died in 1995. Works
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1. ^Descendants of Edward Heleltine, shelwin.com {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Heseltine, Nigel}}{{UK-playwright-stub}}{{UK-poet-stub}}{{Wales-writer-stub}}2. ^Amongst these relationships, though not married to her, Jean Stoney, divorced from Louis le Brocquy in 1948. 3. ^Nigel Heseltine 9 : 1916 births|1995 deaths|Welsh poets|Welsh short story writers|Welsh dramatists and playwrights|Welsh travel writers|20th-century Welsh poets|20th-century British dramatists and playwrights|20th-century British short story writers |
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