A Mingled Measure Diaries 19531972 Author:James Lees-Milne (George) James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August 1908 - 28 December 1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist, biographer and a friend of many of the most prominent British intellectual and social figures of his day. He is now mainly remembe... more »red as a diarist.« less