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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.
14 de fev. de 2022 · Born in 1897 in Chicago, Channon spent a few years in Paris mingling with the likes of Proust and Cocteau—he purports to be intimidated by the two “wittiest men in Europe” before blithely ...
7 de jun. de 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.
9 de mar. de 2021 · Such a man was Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, Conservative MP, snob, bigot and social mountaineer, who perfectly embodied the qualities vital to the task: a capacious ear for gossip, a neat turn...
4 de abr. de 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 ...
27 de mai. de 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.
3 de mar. de 2021 · Sex, scandal and high society in Chips Channon’s uncensored diaries. Channon was a snobbish, sexually voracious Tory who revered Hitler – and a new edition of his journals shines a startling light on interwar Britain.