Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell
Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell ( 1904 – 94 ),writer and aesthete, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He spent some years in the 1930s in Peking, and wrote several works on Chinese theatre and poetry. He later returned to settle at his family home at La Pietra, near Florence. He published several volumes of poems, including Aquarium ( 1923 ) and This Chaos ( 1930 ); fiction, which includes a novel set in Peking, Peonies and Ponies ( 1941 ), and Tit for Tat and Other Tales ( 1972 , short stories); and historical studies, which include The Last Medici ( 1932 ) and The Bourbons of Naples ( 1956 ). He also published two volumes of autobiography, Memoirs of an Aesthete ( 1948 ) and More Memoirs ( 1970 ).
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