Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley, first earl of Halifax (1881–1959), politician and diplomat

by D. J. Dutton

  • Early career
  • The First World War and its aftermath
  • Viceroy of India
  • Return to domestic politics
  • The foreign secretary and appeasement
  • Halifax's mounting influence
  • Churchill's foreign secretary
  • Ambassador in Washington
  • Final years
  • Assessment

References

See also

Themes

  • United States of America
  • Cliveden set
  • Guilty men
  • Presidents of the Board of Education, and ministers of and secretaries of state for education
  • Order of Merit
  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs
  • Secretaries of state for war
  • Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Churchill Archive
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives
  • Who Was Who

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