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Christopher Soames. Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, GCMG, GCVO, CH, CBE, PC (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966.
Jun 1, 2014 · Lady Mary Soames, Winston Churchill's last surviving child, has died at the age of 91, her family have announced. ... Her late husband, Christopher Soames, was a prominent Conservative politician ...
Jun 7, 2014 · In 1966 Christopher Soames lost his parliamentary seat but two years later Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister, imaginatively sent him as ambassador to Paris, where he was a success, and so ...
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Christopher Soames’s archive has been partly open, though not sorted, for some years, but Mary had retained many of his papers, which also came to the Archives Centre on her death, so we decided to take the opportunity to redo the whole thing while the new material was being added in. Christopher (the “Great Pachyderm”) also began his ...
In the historiography of British imperialism, the role of the ‘man on the spot’ has been identified as an important impulse to the imperial project, and as a key instigator of decision making. Equal attention should be directed to assessing the contribution of ‘the man on the spot’ in the final unravelling of empire. Old fashioned diplomacy and diplomats should not be airbrushed from ...
- Sue Onslow
- 2013
Christopher Soames was born on 12 October 1920 in Penn, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was married to Lady Mary Soames. He died on 16 September 1987 in Odiham, Hampshire, England, UK.
Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, GCMG, GCVO, CH, CBE, PC (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966. He held several government posts and ...
