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1922

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At the F.O. all the morning and afternoon going over the Agenda for the forthcoming Session of the League of Nations at Geneva. At 6 o'clock to 1 Carlton House Terrace to see Lord Curzon and to discuss with him any points of policy arising out of the Agenda. Lord C. is off to Cannes tomorrow to attend the Inter-Allied Conference that is to discuss the question of German reparations, trade with Russia, etc.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 50: PARLIAMENT AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF ASQUITH AND LLOYD GEORGE , May 2016 , pp. 329 - 342
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References

1 Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux (1853–1944): politician and diplomat.

2 Guglielmo Imperiali di Francavilla (1858–1944): politician and diplomat; Ambassador to London 1910–1920.

3 Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking (1862–1945): army officer, High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig (1921–1923); CB 1910, KCB 1916, KCMG 1918, GBE 1921.

4 Paul Louis Adrien Henri Hymans (1865–1941): Belgian politician; President of the League of Nations 1920–1921, 1932–1933.

5 Horace Brand Farquhar (1844–1923): financier and royal official; Lib. Unionist MP for Marylebone 1895–1898; sacked as Conservative Party Treasurer 1923 after a financial dispute; cr. baronet 1892; cr. Baron Farquhar 1898; cr. Viscount Farquhar 1917; cr. Earl Farquhar 1922; m. 1895 Emilie Scott, née Packe (d. 1922): the widow of Sir Edward H. Scott.

6 John Trevor (c.1637–1717): served as Speaker of the House of Commons 1685–1687, 1690–1695, but was expelled for corruption; knighted 1671. Lloyd George was correct to describe him as Welsh rather than Cornish.

7 Henry George Charles Lascelles (1882–1947): Con. candidate for Keighley 1913; served in the army during the First World War; knighted 1922; succ. as 6th Earl of Harewood 1929.

8 Michael Collins (1890–1922): Irish revolutionary and political-military mastermind who took a leading role in the negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.

9 Arthur Griffith (1871–1922): Irish nationalist and journalist; founder of Sinn Féin; led the Irish side in the 1921 treaty negotiations.

10 Henry Hughes Wilson, Bt (1864–1922): army officer; Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1918–1922; Field Marshal 1919; MP for North Down 1922; cr. baronet 1919; an uncompromising opponent of negotiations with the Irish, he was murdered by republican gunmen, who were caught and hanged.

11 Francis Oswald Lindley (1872–1950): diplomat; Ambassador to Portugal 1929–1931; Ambassador to Japan 1931–1934; knighted 1926.

12 Edward William Macleay Grigg (1879–1955): journalist prior to 1914; served in the army during the First World War; private secretary to Lloyd George 1920–1922; Nat Lib. MP for Oldham 1922–1925; Nat Con. MP for Altrincham 1933–1935; Governor of Kenya 1925–1930; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information 1939–1940; Financial Secretary at the War Office 1940; Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the War Office 1940–1942; Minister Resident in the Middle East 1944–1945; knighted 1928; cr. Baron Altrincham 1945.

13 Robert Gilbert Vansittart (1881–1957): diplomat and Foreign Office official, later notorious for his anti-German views; knighted 1929; cr. Baron Vansittart 1941.

14 Ronald Charles Lindsay (1877–1945): Foreign Office official and diplomat; Ambassador to Turkey 1925–1926; Ambassador to Germany 1926–1930; Ambassador to the USA 1930–1939; knighted 1925.

15 Charles Hubert Montgomery (1876–1942): Foreign Office official and diplomat; Minister to the Netherlands 1933–1938; knighted 1927.

16 John Murray (d. 1937 at age 53): Foreign Office official and diplomat; Minister to Mexico 1935–1937.

17 Harmsworth, Cecil and Harmsworth, Desmond, Holiday Verses and Others (Dublin: Cuala Press, 1922)Google Scholar; Lord Northcliffe, My Journey Round the World.

18 Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair (1890–1970): served in the army during the First World War; Nat. Lib./Lib. MP for Caithness and Sutherland 1922–1945 and Lib. candidate in 1950; Leader of the Liberal Party 1935–1945; Secretary of State for Air 1940–1945; cr. Viscount Thurso 1952.

19 John Prescott Hewett (1854–1941): Indian administrator; Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces 1907–1912; Unionist MP for Luton 1922–1923; knighted 1907.

20 Percy Alden (1865–1944): expert on social, economic and labour questions; Lib. MP for Tottenham 1906–1918; Lab. MP for Tottenham South 1923–1924; knighted 1933; killed by a bomb during the German V-weapons campaign.