In 1937 the islands were acquired by Nigel Nicolson, then an undergraduate at Oxford, who like former owner Compton MacKenzie, was later a writer, publisher and politician.
One architectural commentator, Nigel Nicolson, has described the house as appearing as functional as a Prussian riding school.
Nigel Nicolson, a British officer with 3 Battalion, Welsh Guards, who took part in the infamous forced repatriations from Austria in the summer of 1945, said to me that he had deliberately falsified the historical record at the time, writing that the Yugoslavian deportees had been offered ‘light refreshments’ by their Tito Communist guards.
Nigel Kennedy | Nigel Hawthorne | Nigel Planer | Nigel Mansell | Nigel Bond | Nigel Parkinson | Nigel Lythgoe | Nigel Havers | Nigel Bruce | Sir Nigel | Nigel Wright | Nigel Osborne | Nigel Gresley | Nigel Nicolson | Nigel Godrich | Nigel Davenport | Nigel | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Nigel Tranter | Nigel Stepney | Nigel Playfair | Nigel Marven | Nigel Dick | Nigel Calder | Nigel Adkins | Nigel Wright (rugby league) | Nigel Westlake | Nigel Waymouth | Nigel Roebuck | Nigel Plaskitt |
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters.
Woolf wrote one of her most famous novels, Orlando, described by Sackville-West's son Nigel Nicolson as "the longest and most charming love-letter in literature", as a result of this affair.