Harold Acton

Description: (Italian Writer, Poet, and Historian)
British author and scholar Harold Acton was educated at Eton and Oxford and became a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He is believed to have inspired the character of Anthony Blanche in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. His notable works include The Last Medici and Memoirs of an Aesthete.

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Birthday July 5, 1904 (Cancer)
Born In Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy
Died on February 27, 1994
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