Autobiography extracts [manuscript]. 1928.

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Autobiography extracts [manuscript]. 1928.

Draft chapters nine and ten which were excluded from Gervas Huxley's autobiography Both hands (1970). These chapters cover his 1928 tour of Australia and New Zealand with the British Economic Mission led by Leo Amery. The chapters are based on Huxley's diary which was subsequently destroyed.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7076616

Libraries Australia

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Amery, L. S. (Leopold Stennett), 1873-1955

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1897-1912 fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; 1899-1909 on the The Times editorial staff; 1911-1945 Member of Parliament for South Birmingham (later Sparkbrook); 1914-1916 served in Flanders and the Near East; 1917-1918 on the staff of the War Council, Versailles; 1919-1921 Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies; 1921-1922 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty; 1922-1924 First Lord of the Admiralty; 1924-1929 Secretary of State for the Colonie...

Huxley, Gervas, 1894-1971

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Gervas Huxley was Secretary of the Publicity Committee, Empire Marketing Board 1926-1932, Adviser to Minister of Information (UK) on publicity about the Empire and on American Forces in UK until 1945. Organising Director and Vice Chairman International Tea Market Expansion Board 1935-1967, Hon. Adviser on public relations matters to Secretary of State for the Colonies 1947-1963. From the description of Autobiography extracts [manuscript]. 1928. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record ...

British Economic Mission to Australia

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