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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...
Jun 7, 2022 · Former Conservative Cabinet minister's son and Guinness magnate Henry Channon has left his wife and four children nearly £30million after he died last October at the age of 51.
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....
May 27, 2021 · A new edition of Henry “Chips” Channon’s diaries gives fascinating glimpses of homosocial desire in a hectic narrative of aristocratic and political life.
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.
Mar 31, 2021 · Channon was the spoiled son of a wealthy American who had made a fortune in banking and shipping. Young, handsome and charming, he spent the last year of the First World War in Paris attached in some unspecified—but junior and unpaid—capacity in the Red Cross.
