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The Strand Magazine
More editionsThe Rt. Hon. A. DUFF COOPER P.C, D.S.O. A/fr- Duff Cooper in Downing Street on the way to a Cabinet Meeting during the crisis of September, 1938. THERE is a romantic background to the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C, D.S.O., M.P., ...
The Word
More editionsThe News Chronicle, London, for August 15, 1938, published a photograph of Duff Cooper in the uniform of a Guards officer. In the accompanying letter-press, our contemirorary explained:— The Right Honourable Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C., ...
Talleyrand
Duff CooperDuff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine.
André Gide: A Life in the Present
Alan Sheridan... but of the box of Lady Diana Cooper, the wife of the British Ambassador, Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, currently known in Paris as "le Duff sur le toit"'. Beside Lady Cooper, Cocteau sat enthroned, obviously as much at ease with the British embassy ...
Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement
Robert J. CaputiA fourth memoir of those turbulent times was that of Alfred Duff Cooper, whose 1954 publication, Old Men Forget, was the remembrance of Chamberlain's First Lord of the Admiralty from May 1937 to October 1938. Duff Cooper gained ...
A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964
Cameron HazlehurstSIR (ALFRED) DUFF COOPER, ist VISCOUNT NORWICH (1890-1954) Duff Cooper was Conservative MP for Oldham 1924-29, and for Westminster (St George's) 1931-45. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office Jan 1928-June 1929 ...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
John Julius Norwich... ref168; secret party for (1949), ref169;health concerns, ref170; view of Gloria, ref171 Cooper, (Alfred) Duff(later1st Viscount Norwich): character, ref1,ref2; active servicein FirstWorld War,ref3, ref4, ref5;diplomatic career,ref6, ref7, ref8; drinking, ...
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell
Anthony PowellShe was born Sybil Cooper, sister of Alfred Duff Cooper (created 1st Viscount Norwich 1952), so that Lady Diana Cooper became his aunt; he Lady Diana's publisher. On the maternal side Sybil Cooper was descended from King William IV ...
Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction
M.C. RintoulCOOPER, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890-54) Politician, diplomat and author. In 1919 he married Lady Diana Manners (Cooper, below), and in 1924 he became MP for Oldham. In 1937 he became First Lord of the Admiralty, but ...
Macmillan: The Official Biography
Alistair HorneCooper, Chester, The Lion's Last Roar: Suez 1956 (New York 1978). Cooper, Rt Hon. Alfred Duff (Viscount Norwich), Old Men Forget (London 1953). Coote, Sir Colin, Editorial: Memoirs (London 1965). Cosgrave, Patrick, R. A. Butler: An ...
Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008
More editionsGrandchildren of late James Duff Duff, 3rd son of late Col James Duff of Knockleith (ante) :- Issue of late Maj-Gen Alan Colquhoun Duff, CB, OBE. MC. 4 1896, d 1973: m 1935, Diana Frances, who d 2003. el da of late Col Richard Parry ...
The Unity of Plutarch's Work: 'Moralia' Themes in the ...
Preview2002a, 143–5); Duff 2003, 92–93. Cf. also the supernatural ... 5.8 ('the beauty of a hero's statue'): see Duff 1999, 168–170. 59 As noted in ... 2003 and 2008a. Both characteristics will soon be in evidence: for example, when 202 Timothy E. Duff.
Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and ...
Joseph A. DanePerhaps the worst tangle occurs in E. Gordon Duff's rather strident critique of Blades, whom he holds accountable to bibliographical standards declared by Duff himself, standards much less nuanced than those of Blades quoted above. To Duff ...
Annual Register
ReadHIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1867. ENGLAND. Bedfordshire — William Cooper Cooper ,. War — Principal Sec. Right Hon. Sir J. S. ... India — Principal Sec. and President of Council, Right Hon. Sir S. H. ... J. Herries — Alfred Montgomery, Henry Roberts, Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, James Disraeli — Joint Sees., T. Sargent, Wm. Corbett.
Television Writers Guide
More editions... Cooper* Hal Cooper* llene Cooper Paul W. Cooper* Sam Cooper* Susan Cooper* Jerome Coopersmith* Greg Cope* Rick Copp* David Copperfield* Louis A. Coppola Vincent Virom Coppola* Scott Corbett Barbara Corday* Sharon Corder ...
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
More editions... W. Peckham, Maidstone, Kent), b. 1891.-Helen Mary (The Old Vicarage, W. Peckham, Maidstone, Kent), b. 1894. Grandchildren of the late James Duff Duff ( infra):— Issue of the late Maj.-Gen. Alan Colquhoun Duff, CB, OBE, MC, b. 1896, d.
The Right of the Line: The Role of the RAF in WW
John TerraineThe First Lord of the Admiralty (the Right Honourable A. V. Alex— ander) was less Machiavellian; he thought that if Hitler ... The Minister of Information (the Right Honourable Alfred Duff Cooper) robustly added that “the proposed operations ...
Studies in the History of Tax Law
PreviewThe case related to the use of his diaries for the purposes of a biography of him by the Rt Hon Alfred Duff Cooper. Earl Haig had left the diaries to his trustees to be published on such terms and conditions as they in their uncontrolled discretion ...
More Virtual Field Trips
Gail CooperCopyright © 1999 Gail Cooper and Garry Cooper All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cooper, Gail, 1950- More virtual field trips / by Gail Cooper and Garry Cooper. xv, 146 p.
Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and ...
E. Gordon DuffDuff's 1899 Sandars Lectures discuss the workings of the book trade in London during the fifteenth century.
Talleyrand
Alfred Duff Cooper 1st Viscount NorwichOnce a supporter of the Revolution, after the fall of the monarchy, he fled to England and then to the United States. Talleyrand returned to France two years later and served under Napoleon, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna.
The Dublin and London magazine
ReadDuff he was determined to punish ; but a duel with his former friend was by no means so palatable. After revolving ... himself to sleep. In the -morning he was awakened from a perplexed dream about Caroline, Aodh Dhu, and Tim Duff, by a ...
Mini Cooper: The Real Thing!
Johnny TiplerBritain's mighty atom, the Mini Cooper, has a huge reputation out of all proportion to its size. The Mini was created by the fertile mind of Alec Issigonis and modified by John Cooper to become known as the Mini Cooper in 1961.
In the Shadow of the Hawk: An Intimate Chronicle of World ...
Josephine B. CurryLast night I heard his excellency, the Rt. Hon. Lord Alfred Duff Cooper (former 1st lord of the admiralty) deliver a lecture in the defense of the Versailles Treaty. That makes two of us now who believe the treaty was a good one. I liked what he ...
Winston Churchill: A Biographical Companion
Chris WrigleyAlfred. Duff. (Viscount. Norwich,. 1890–1954). D. uff Cooper was one of Churchill's oldest friends.He was also a political supporter of Churchill in 1924– 1929 and notably after Munich, 1938.The Churchills and Coopers frequently met at social ...
The Struggle for Europe's Constitution
Andrew DuffThis is the first book in English to get to grips with the European Constitution, and Andrew Duff is the first participant to argue for the rescue of the project.
Answering for Crime: Responsibility and Liability in the ...
R A DuffIn this long-awaited book, Antony Duff offers a new perspective on the structures of criminal law and criminal liability.
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