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Amery, L(eopold Charles Maurice) S(tennett)
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| (1873–1955)
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| British statesman, born in Gorakhpur, NE India. He studied at Oxford, and became Conservative MP for Sparkbrook, Birmingham, a seat which he held for 34 years. He served as colonial under-secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, and colonial secretary between 1919 and 1929, then returned to office in Churchill's wartime administration as secretary of state for India and Burma (now Myanmar). He became famous for his exhortation to Neville Chamberlain, in May 1940, adapting Cromwell's words, ‘In the name of God, go!’ |
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