Julian Amery
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Minister for Housing and Construction | |
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In office 15 October 1970 – 5 November 1972 | |
Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Paul Channon |
Minister of Public Buildings and Works | |
In office 23 June 1970 – 14 October 1970 | |
Preceded by | John Silkin |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Member of Parliament for Preston North | |
In office 23 February 1950 – 10 March 1966 | |
Preceded by | Constituency created |
Succeeded by | Ronald Atkins |
Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion | |
In office 27 March 1969 – 16 March 1992 | |
Preceded by | Sir William Teeling |
Succeeded by | Derek Spencer |
Personal details | |
Born | 27 March 1919 |
Died | 3 September 1996 | (aged 77)
Second World War | |
Harold Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh,
Amery was created a life peer upon his retirement from the
Early and family life
Amery was born in
Military service
Before the
He spent 1941–42 in the eastern Mediterranean (the Middle East,
Political career
Amery won a Parliamentary seat in the first general election held after he returned to civilian life, in 1950. He was elected as Conservative MP for Preston North, going on to hold a number of government offices, all in governments led by his father-in-law, now the Prime Minister. He began with two Under-Secretaryships of State: for War (1957–58) and for the Colonies (1958–60). He was promoted to Secretary of State for Air (1960–62), followed by a promotion to the post of Minister of Aviation (1962–64). In this role and during this two-year period, Amery was involved in the planning stages of what would become the supersonic passenger service known as Concorde.
Amery lost his Preston North seat in 1966, but was re-elected to the Commons in 1969 representing Brighton Pavilion, a seat he would hold until 1992 when he retired. On 8 July 1992, he was created a life peer as Baron Amery of Lustleigh, of Preston in the County of Lancashire and of Brighton in the County of East Sussex.[6]
Under the Heath administration, Amery held three ministerial posts: Minister for Public Works (1970), Minister for Housing and Construction (1970–72) and Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1972–74).
Monday Club
For 30 years, Amery was an active member and later a Patron of the
He was Guest of Honour at the club's Annual Dinner at the Cutlers' Hall in 1963. In 1965, he wrote the foreword for Club activist Geoffrey Stewart-Smith's book, No Vision Here. On May Day 1970, he was one of the club's principal speakers at their 'Law and Liberty' rally in Trafalgar Square, held in answer to the 'Stop the Seventy Tour' campaign, designed to stop the South African cricket tour.
Amery was the Monday Club's Guest-of-Honour at their Annual Dinner held at the Savoy Hotel, London, in January 1974 and again at the dinner at the end of the club's two-day Conference in Birmingham in March 1975.
Political views
Amery was in favour of entry to the
In late 1962 Amery made these comments after Egypt sent troops to
In 1963, Amery took charge of Quintin Hogg's campaign for leadership of the Conservative Party.[10]
In early 1975, he took part in a
According to
Although he was Harold Macmillan's son-in-law, he did not defend him when Count Nikolai Tolstoy published The Minister and the Massacres in 1986, focusing the ultimate burden of blame sharply on Macmillan for the 1945 Bleiburg repatriations and the Cossack repatriations. Amery stated that the repatriations were "one of the few blots on Harold that I can think of".[11]
Personal life
On 26 January 1950, he married Catherine Macmillan (19 November 1926 – 27 May 1991), daughter of Harold Macmillan. The couple had one son and three daughters.[12]
Death
Amery died on 3 September 1996 in
Notes
- Citations
- ^ "Amery sentenced to death". The Times. London. 29 November 1945. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- OCLC 751719981.
- ISBN 9780743256889.
- ISBN 9780008322243. The index contains a combined total of over 70 page numbers and page ranges either directly about, or mentioning, Amery.
- ^ Amery, Julian, Approach March: a Venture in Autobiography. Hutchinson, 1973
- ^ "No. 52988". The London Gazette. 13 July 1992. p. 11759.
- ^ "Julian Amery dies". The Independent. London. 4 September 1996. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-4008-5558-2.
- ^ Curtis, Adam (1999). "The Mayfair Set". Broadcast on BBC2. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
Excerpt: David Stirling was a close friend of Julian Amery's and together they were determined to find a way to stop Nasser... Stirling and Amery had dinner with the foreign secretary, Alec Douglas Hume, at the White's Club in St. James's. They proposed a plan: a group of SAS men would mount an operation to fight the Egyptians, but they would do it privately
- ^ cf. Heffer, 189; 324
- ^ "Lady Caroline Faber: Daughter of Harold Macmillan who disliked politics but campaigned for her relatives". The Times. London. 19 September 2016.
- ^ "Lord Amery of Lustleigh: Obituary". The Independent. 5 September 1996. Archived from the original on 2 July 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ "Harold Julian Amery". www.findagrave.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- Bibliography
- Amery, Julian, PC, MP et al., Rhodesia and the Threat to the West, London, Monday Club, 1976.
- Amery, Julian, PC, MP, The Next Four Years, in the Primrose League Gazette, vol. 87, no. 4, October 1983, London.
- Amery, Julian, MP, The Rt. Hon., Facing up to Soviet Imperialism, in the Monday Club's October 1985 Conservative Party Conference issue of their newspaper, Right Ahead.
- Amery, Julian, ALBANIA IN WW II by Julian Amery, from Oxford Companion to the Second World War (1995), pp. 24–26
- ISBN 978-0-00-832224-3
- ISBN 0-297-81849-X
- Copping, Robert, The Story of The Monday Club – The First Decade, April 1972 ; and The Monday Club – Crisis and After (Foreword by John Biggs‑Davison, MP), May 1975, , pp. 12, 24, published by the Current Affairs Information Service.
- Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1991, London, Vacher Dod Publishing Ltd, p. 394, ISBN 0-905702-17-4
- Dorril, Stephen, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, New York, The Free Press, 2000 (ISBN 0-7432-0379-8)
- ISBN 0-7432-5688-3
- Gash, Norman, with Donald Southgate, David Dilks, and John Ramsden; introduction by ISBN 0-04-942157-3
- ISBN 0-297-84286-2
- ISBN 0-333-27691-4, pp. 81, 253, 275, 326, 388, 441.
- The London Gazette, https://www.thegazette.co.uk
- Messina, Anthony M, Race and Party Competition in Britain, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989, p. 138, ISBN 0-19-827534-X
- Smiley, Colonel David Arabian Assignment London, Cooper, 1975. MI6 – Oman and Yemen.
- Smiley, Colonel David Albanian Assignment, London, Chatto & Windus, 1984. Foreword by Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. SOE in Albania (1943–44).
- ISBN 0 85955 202 0). Translated into French as Au cœur de l'action clandestine, des commandos au MI6, L'Esprit du Livre Editions, 2008. The Memoirs of an SOE officer (Albania, Asia) and MI6 agent (Poland, Malta, Oman, Yemen), brother‑in‑arms of Julian Amery.
- Weale, Adrian, Patriot Traitors – Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason, London, Viking, 2001, ISBN 0-670-88498-7
Primary sources
- Amery, Julian, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Vol, Four, 1901–1903, At the Height of His Power, London: MacMillan, 1951.
- Amery, Julian, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Vol. Five, 1901–1903, And the Tariff Reform Campaign, London: MacMillan, 1969.
- Amery, Julian, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Vol. Six, 1903–1968, And the Tariff Reform Campaign, London: MacMillan, 1969.
Further reading
- Garvin, James Louis, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Vol. One, 1836–1885, Chamberlain and Democracy, London: MacMillan, 1932.
- Garvin, James Louis, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Vol. Two, 1885–1895, Disruption and Combat, London: MacMillan, 1933.
- Garvin, James Louis, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Vol. Three, 1895–1900, Empire and World Policy, London: MacMillan, 1934.