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William Wedgwood Benn 1st Viscount Stansgate 1877 – 1960

Air Commodore William Wedgwood Benn 1st Viscount Stansgate PC, DSO, DFC 1877 –  1960 was a British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party. He was Secretary of State for India between 1929 and 1931 and Secretary of State for Air between 1945 and 1945. He was the father of Tony Benn.

William Wedgwood Benn’s grandfather Julius Benn was a friend of James John Garth Wilkinson, and his son Tony Benn was a close friend of James John Garth Wilkinson’s daughter Florence Wilkinson,

William Wedgwood Benn served George V (who was a patient of homeopath John Weir (he knighted him), and he was a colleague of Herbert Henry Asquith, Maurice Harold Macmillan 1st Earl of Stockton,

The Wedgwood family is linked to the family of Charles Darwin, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Feb.15.2010 :: Book Reviews :: No Comments »

Arthur Neville Chamberlain 1869 – 1940

Arthur Neville Chamberlain 1869 – 1940 was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.

Chamberlain owed his education to homeopathic philanthropist Josiah Mason ( Trustee and member of the Management Committee, and major sponsor of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, and the Co-founder of the Mason Science College in Birmingham, which evolved into the University of Birmingham, Josiah Mason was a close friend and homeopathic patient of James Gibbs Blake),

Chamberlain was the son of Joseph Chamberlain (who worked with homeopath, journalist and historian J Ellis Barker, and who was the driving force behind the foundation of the University of Birmingham and was its first Chancellor, alongside homeopath James Gibbs Blake, President, Chairman of the Trustee and the Chairman of the Council of the Mason Science College in Birmingham, and a Co Founder and Vice President of the University of Birmingham, and Josiah Mason, a Trustee and member of the Management Committee, and major sponsor of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital and the Co-founder of the Mason Science College in Birmingham, which evolved into the University of Birmingham),

Chamberlain was a colleague of Stanley Baldwin, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Feb.13.2010 :: Book Reviews :: No Comments »