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Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell (1904-1994), writer, scholar, and aesthete
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5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994
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Writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated.
Educated at Eton College and Christ Church College, Oxford.