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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.
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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 · Henry "Chips" Channon and Lady Honor Guiness leaving St. Margaret’s Westminster after a rehearsal for their 1933 wedding. At the time, none less than the queen of the withering private putdown ...
- Mark Peikert
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Jan 20, 2023 · Henry “Chips” Channon was born in 1897 and grew up outside Chicago in the predominantly WASP suburb of Lake Forest. He had all the weaknesses of the turn-of-the-century WASP (narrow-mindedness,...
Mar 9, 2021 · Biography and memoir. Add to myFT. Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon’s diaries — a cuckoo in the aristocratic nest. The unexpurgated writings of the Conservative MP show him to be...
- Jesse Norman
May 27, 2021 · Henry ‘Chips’ Channon, London, 1930; photograph by Howard Coster. “I am very fond of Chips,” the London society hostess Maud Cunard declared in 1926, “and so is everyone else.” “I seem,” Chips himself remarked a few months earlier, “to be enormously popular.”.
Oct 11, 2021 · Scandalous snob Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon was a renowned society host and keeper of name-dropping diaries. Fellow diarist Sasha Swire reveals how Chips inspired her own equally indiscreet memoir – ahead of a fabulously juicy panel event at Cliveden Literary Festival entitled ‘The Diary Enquiry’
Apr 4, 2021 · In the first half of the 20th century, no diarist in English would achieve greater notoriety than Henry Channon, AKA “Chips”, his name practically a byword for gossipy flamboyance and...
