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Sir Henry Channon (7 March 1897 – 7 October 1958), often known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation.
Feb 14, 2022 · Channon, pictured here in 1934, was an American-born member of the British Parliament and an expert social climber whose recently released diaries are causing a stir in elite circles on both...
- Mark Peikert
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Jun 7, 2022 · Former Conservative Cabinet minister’s son Henry Channon has left his wife and four children nearly £30million after he died last October at the age of 51. Henry's death was the latest tragedy...
Mar 9, 2021 · Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon’s diaries — a cuckoo in the aristocratic nest The unexpurgated writings of the Conservative MP show him to be well-connected and well-informed — and utterly wrong
- Jesse Norman
Apr 4, 2021 · Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries 1918-38 review – priceless interwar gossip. Editor Simon Heffer brings us the first, sensationally unexpurgated volume of the musings of the Chicago-born ...
Jan 20, 2023 · Bookshelf. The Diaries of Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: Snob’s Progress. In hundreds of diary entries, the Chicago-boy-turned-wealthy-English politician dropped names, recalled slights and...
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Aug 28, 2021 · Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, born and raised in Chicago, became the greatest British diarist of the 20th century; called the Pepys of the interwar years he rather more resembled Wodehouse’s Galahad Threepwood or Maugham’s Elliott Templeton.
