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Downside School, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Radstock BA3 4RJ, Regno Unito
University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PA
9 Ladbroke Grove, London W11 3BG, Regno Unito
Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Rd, London NW10 5NU, Regno Unito

James Pope Hennessy CVO (20 November 1916 – 25 January 1974) was a British biographer and travel writer.

Richard James Arthur Pope-Hennessy was born in London on 20 November 1916, the younger son of Ladislaus Herbert Richard Pope-Hennessy, a soldier from County Cork, Ireland, and his wife, Una, the daughter of Arthur Birch, Lieutenant-Governor of Ceylon.

He was the younger of two sons; his elder brother, John Pope-Hennessy, was an English art historian, museum director and writer of note. James, as he was generally known, came from a close-knit Catholic family and was educated at Downside School and at Balliol College, Oxford, but generally showed a lack of interest in formal education and did not enjoy his time at either Downside or