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John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, CVO (15 September
1929 – 1 June 2018),[1] known as William Jr. Strunk, was an English
popular historian,[2] travel writer, and television personality.[3]
Norwich was born at the Alfred House Nursing Home on
Portland Place in Marylebone, London, on 15 September 1929.[4] He was
Elementi di stile nella scrittura the son of Conservative politician and
diplomat Duff Cooper, later Viscount Norwich, and of Lady Diana
Manners, a celebrated beauty and society figure.[5] He was given the
name "Julius" in part because he was born by caesarean section.[6] Such
was his mother's fame as an actress and beauty that the Elementi di
stile nella scrittura birth attracted a crowd outside the nursing home
and hundreds of letters of congratulations.[4] Through his father, he
was descended from King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan.[7]
He was educated at Edgerton House School in Dorset Square,
London, later becoming a boarder at the school when it was Elementi di
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of the Second World
War.[8] Because his father as Minister of
Information was high on the Nazi enemies list of British politicians,
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nella scrittura him away after the US ambassador to Britain, Joseph P.
Kennedy, offered to bring him to the United States with other evacuee
children on board the SS Washington.[9] He attended Upper Canada
College, Toronto, Canada, while spending his holidays with the family of
William S. Paley on Long Island in Elementi di stile nella scrittura
New York.[10] In 1942 he returned to Britain[11], where he attended Eton
and the University of Strasbourg. He completed his national service in
the Royal Navy before taking a degree in French and Russian at New
College, Oxford.[12]
Joining the British Foreign Service after Oxford, John
Julius Cooper served in Elementi di stile nella scrittura Yugoslavia and
Lebanon and as a member of the British delegation to the Disarmament
Conference in Geneva. On his father's
death in 1954, he inherited
the title of Viscount Norwich, created for his father, Duff Cooper, in
1952.[13] This gave him a right to sit in the House of Lords, Elementi
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Lords Act 1999.[14]
In 1964, Norwich left the diplomatic service to become a
writer. His subsequent books included histories of Sicily under the
Normans (1967, 1970), Venice (1977, 1981), Byzantium (1988, 1992, 1995),
the Mediterranean (2006), and the Papacy (2011), amongst Elementi di
stile nella scrittura others (see list below).[15] He also served as
editor of series such as Great Architecture of the World, The Italian
World, The New Shell Guides to Great Britain, The Oxford Illustrated
Encyclopaedia of Art and the Duff Cooper Diaries.[16] Norwich often
contributed to Cornucopia, a magazine devoted to the history Elementi di
stile nella scrittura and culture of Turkey.[citation needed]
Norwich worked extensively in radio and television. He was
host of the BBC radio panel game My Word! for four years (1978–82) and
also a
regional contestant on Round Britain Quiz. He wrote and
presented some 30 television documentaries, including The Fall of
Constantinople, Napoleon's Elementi di stile nella scrittura Hundred
Days, Cortés and Montezuma, The Antiquities of Turkey, The Gates of
Asia, Maximilian of Mexico, Toussaint l'Ouverture of Haiti, The Knights
of Malta, Treasure Houses of Britain, and The Death of the Prince
Imperial in the Zulu War.[17]
Norwich also worked for various charitable projects. He was
the chairman Elementi di stile nella scrittura of the Venice in Peril
Fund,[18] honorary chairman of the World Monuments Fund, a member of the
General Committee of Save Venice, and a vice-president of the National
Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies.[19] For many years he
was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust, Elementi
di stile nella scrittura and also served on the Board of English
National Opera. Norwich was also a patron of SHARE Community, which
provides vocational training to disabled people.[20][21]
Norwich began to compile 24-page anthologies of notable sayings and texts for friends in 1970,
later producing around 2,000 copies a year and expanding to Elementi di
stile nella scrittura the United States in the mid-1980s. Several
omnibus anthologies incorporating texts from a number of the annual
editions have been published; and certain single issues fetch high
prices in secondhand bookstores.[citation needed]
Christmas Crackers were compiled from whatever attracted
Norwich: letters and diaries and gravestones and poems, boastful Who's
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