John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO (born 15 September 1929) is an English historian, travel writer and television personality. The Royal Victorian Order (RVO is a Dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry in the Commonwealth realms Created by Queen Victoria Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland He is commonly known as John Julius Norwich.
He is the only child of the Conservative politician and diplomat Duff Cooper and of Lady Diana Cooper, a celebrated beauty and society figure. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Alfred Duff Cooper 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG DSO PC (22 February 1890-1 January 1954 known as Duff Cooper, was a British diplomat Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Cooper Viscountess Norwich ( August 29, 1893 &ndash June 16, 1986) was a British socialite and actress
His father was created Viscount Norwich in 1952, a title he inherited at his father's death in 1954. Through his father, he is a descendant of King William IV and Dorothea Jordan. William IV (William Henry 21 August 1765 &ndash 20 June 1837 was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until Dorothy Jordan ( November 21, 1761 – July 5, 1816) was a British actress, Courtesan and the mistress and famous
He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton College, and at the University of Strasbourg. Upper Canada College (UCC is a private elementary and Secondary school for boys in downtown Toronto, Canada. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, founded in 1631 was divided in the 1970s into three separate institutions with a total He served in the Royal Navy before taking a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He then joined the British Foreign Service, serving in Yugoslavia and Lebanon, and as a member of British delegation to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian Lebanon (ˈlɛbənɒn Arabic: ar لبنان Lubnān) officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic (ar الجمهورية اللبنانية Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking
In 1964 Norwich left government service to become a writer. His works include:
- The Normans in the South and The Kingdom in the Sun, two books on Norman Sicily, later republished as The Normans in Sicily
- Byzantium: The Early Centuries, Byzantium: The Apogee and Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, later condensed into A Short History of Byzantium
- Mount Athos (jointly with Reresby Sitwell)
- Sahara
- A History of Venice
- Venice: A Traveller's Companion
- A Taste for Travel
- Shakespeare's Kings
- The Architecture of Southern England
- Fifty Years of Glyndebourne
- The Twelve Days of Christmas, a work of humour
He has 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. The Kingdom of Sicily (Regnum Siciliae or Sicilie Regno di Sicilia, commonly abbreviated Regno) was a state that existed in the south of Italy Mount Athos (Όρος Άθως is a mountain on the Peninsula of the same name in Macedonia, of northern Greece, called in Greek Άγιον Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the This article is about the country house and its Opera house. See Glyndebourne Festival Opera for the summer opera festival
Norwich has worked extensively in radio and television. He was host of the popular BBC radio panel game My Word! for four years. My Word! was a long-running Radio Panel game broadcast by the BBC on the Home Service (1956-67 and Radio 4 (1967-90 He has written and presented some 30 television documentaries, including The Fall of Constantinople, Napoleon's 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 and The Death of the Prince Imperial in the Zulu War. The Fall of Constantinople refers to the capture of the Byzantine Empire's capital by the Ottoman Empire on Tuesday May 29, 1453 (Julian Calendar Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca ( 1485&ndash December 2, Moctezuma, also known as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (Motēuczōma Xōcoyōtzin|mo Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Maximilian I Emperor of Mexico (Emperador Maximiliano I de México (6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867 (born Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph was a member of Austria François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture Haiti ( English: ˈheɪ·tiː or haɪ·ˈjiː·tiː French Haïti a·i·ti Haitian Creole: The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St This article refers to the son of Napoleon III For the stepson of Napoleon I see Eugène de Beauharnais Biography At the outbreak of the The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Empire.
Norwich has also worked for various charitable projects. He is Chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-Chairman of the World Monuments Fund, and a Vice-President of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies. The Venice in Peril Fund is a British Registered charity. It raises funds to restore and conserve works of art and architecture in Venice, and to investigate The World Monuments Fund (WMF is a New York -based private Non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic Architecture and For many years he was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust, and also served on the Board of the English National Opera. The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organization in England, Wales English National Opera (ENO is the national opera company of England, and one of two opera companies in London, along with the Royal Opera at Covent
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Family
Norwich married, as his first wife, Anne Frances May Clifford, daughter of the Hon. Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford; they had one daughter, Artemis Cooper, a historian, and a son, Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper. The Hon Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Cooper Beevor (born 22 April 1953) is a British writer known as Artemis Cooper After their divorce, Lord Norwich married, as his second wife, the Hon. Mary (Makins) Philipps, daughter of the 1st Baron Sherfield, GCB, GCMG. Baron Sherfield, of Sherfield-on-Loddon in the County of Southampton is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Norwich also is the father of Allegra Huston, offspring of his affair with Enrica Soma Huston, the estranged wife of the American film director John Huston. John Marcellus Huston ( August 5 1906 &ndash August 28 1987) was an American Film director and Actor.
Partial bibliography
- A History of Venice, John Julius Norwich, Publ. Allen lane (1981) ISBN 0-679-72197-5
- Byzantium: The Early Centuries, v. 1, John Julius Norwich, Publ. Viking (1988) ISBN 0-670-80251-4
- Byzantium: The Apogee, vol. 2, John Julius Norwich, Publ. Alfred A. Knopf (1992) ISBN 0-394-53779-3
- Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, v. 3, John Julius Norwich, Publ. Viking (1995) ISBN 0-670-82377-5
- A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich, Publ. Alfred A Knopf (1997) ISBN 0-679-45088-2
- Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485 (2000) ISBN 0-684-81434-X
- The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean, Doubleday (2006) ISBN 0-385-51023-3
References
- Old Times: Leaders & Legends: John Julius Norwich; Winter/Spring, 2008
External links
- Penguin books short biography
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Viscount Norwich 1954–Present |
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