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Philip Guedalla, the Glossary

Philip Guedalla (12 March 1889 – 16 December 1944) was an English barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer.^[1]

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Allen & Unwin

George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co.

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Anthony Shaffer (writer)

Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 19266 November 2001) was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister, and advertising executive.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Barrister

A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman

Frank Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman of Knutsford, (28 April 1880 – 18 January 1962), known as Boyd Merriman, was a British Conservative politician and judge.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Cabinet (government)

A cabinet in governing is a group of people with the constitutional or legal task to rule a country or state, or advise a head of state, usually from the executive branch.

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The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to the bar".

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Cassell (publisher)

Cassell is a British book publishing house, founded in 1848 by John Cassell (1817–1865), which became in the 1890s an international publishing group company.

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Charles Earle Funk

Charles Earle Funk (1881–1957) was an American lexicographer.

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Charles Masterman

Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman PC MP (24 October 1873 – 17 November 1927) was a British radical Liberal Party politician, intellectual and man of letters.

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Charles Waterhouse (British politician)

Charles Waterhouse (1 July 1893 – 2 March 1975) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Chatham House

The Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House, is a British think tank based in London, England.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Constable & Robinson

Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.

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David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. Philip Guedalla and David Lloyd George are British Zionists.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company.

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Earl of Kerry

Baron Kerry is an ancient title in the Peerage of Ireland, named after County Kerry.

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Edward Fleming

Edward Lascelles Fleming (c. 1891 – 17 February 1950) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Epigram

An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement.

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Ernest Benn

Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet, (25 June 1875 – 17 January 1954) was a British publisher, writer and political publicist.

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Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe

Ernest Emil Darwin Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe (9 October 1879 – 3 October 1960) was a British industrialist, politician and public servant. Philip Guedalla and Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe are people educated at Rugby School.

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F. W. S. Craig

Frederick Walter Scott Craig (10 December 1929 – 23 March 1989) was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of the standard reference books covering United Kingdom Parliamentary election results.

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Flax

Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Frank Lee (British politician)

Frank Lee (1867 – 21 December 1941) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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G. P. Putnam's Sons

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George G. Harrap and Co.

George G. Harrap, Ltd (officially: George G. Harrap and Company Limited, London, Bombay) was a publisher of speciality books, many of them educational, such as the memoirs of Winston Churchill, or highly illustrated with line drawings, engravings or etchings, such as the much republished classic educational children's book The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone from at least 1901 into the 1980s.

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H. H. Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British politician and statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Philip Guedalla and H. H. Asquith are presidents of the Oxford Union.

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Hackney North (UK Parliament constituency)

Hackney North was a parliamentary constituency in "The Metropolis" (later the County of London).

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Harland Bowden

Lieutenant-Colonel George Robert Harland Bowden (1873 – 10 October 1927) was a British mechanical engineer and Conservative Party politician.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hutchinson Heinemann

Hutchinson Heinemann is a British publishing firm founded in 1887.

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If It Had Happened Otherwise

If It Had Happened Otherwise is a 1931 collection of essays edited by J. C. Squire and published by Longmans, Green.

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Inner Temple

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional association for barristers and judges.

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J. C. Squire

Sir John Collings Squire (2 April 1884 – 20 December 1958) was a British writer, most notable as editor of the London Mercury, a major literary magazine in the interwar period.

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Jewish Historical Society of England

The Jewish Historical Society of England (JHSE) was founded in 1893 by several Anglo-Jewish scholars, including Lucien Wolf, who became the society's first president.

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Jewish Museum London

The Jewish Museum London was a museum of British Jewish life, history and identity.

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John Murray (publishing house)

John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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List of biographers

Biographers are authors who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their own biography.

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List of presidents of the Oxford Union

Past elected presidents of the Oxford Union are listed below, with their college and the year/term in which they served. Philip Guedalla and list of presidents of the Oxford Union are presidents of the Oxford Union.

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Longman

Longman, also known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.

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Maida Vale

Maida Vale is an affluent residential district in West London, England, north of Paddington, southwest of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn, on the Edgware Road.

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Manchester Rusholme (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester Rusholme is a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rusholme district of Manchester.

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Manchester Withington (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester Withington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smith of Labour.

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Minister of Munitions

The Minister of Munitions was a British government position created during the First World War to oversee and co-ordinate the production and distribution of munitions for the war effort.

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National Government (United Kingdom)

In the politics of the United Kingdom, a National Government is a coalition of some or all of the major political parties.

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National Labour Organisation

The National Labour Organisation, also known simply as National Labour, was formed in 1931 by supporters of the National Government in Britain who had come from the Labour Party.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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North East Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North East Derbyshire is a constituency created in 1885 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Louise Jones of the Labour Party.

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Oxford Poetry

Oxford Poetry is a literary magazine based in Oxford, England.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pan Books

Pan Books is a British publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.

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Prime minister

A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

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Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Rugby School

Rugby School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

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Sir Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet

Sir Walter Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet, DSO (4 August 1869 – 24 August 1947) was a British Conservative politician.

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Sleuth (play)

Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer.

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Squadron leader

Squadron leader (Sqn Ldr or S/L) is a senior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.

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Stanley Holmes, 1st Baron Dovercourt

Joseph Stanley Holmes, 1st Baron Dovercourt (31 October 1878 – 22 April 1961) was a British chartered accountant, businessman and Liberal Party politician, who later served as a Liberal National Member of Parliament.

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T. Fisher Unwin

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The Literary Digest

The Literary Digest was an American general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Victor Gollancz Ltd

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century and continues to publish science fiction and fantasy titles as an imprint of Orion Publishing Group.

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VisitBritain

VisitBritain is the name used by the British Tourist Authority, the tourist board of the United Kingdom incorporated under the Development of Tourism Act 1969.

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War Office

The War Office has referred to several British government organisations in history, all relating to the army.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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Wit

Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland

The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the British Zionist Federation or simply the Zionist Federation (ZF), is an umbrella organisation for the Zionist movement in the United Kingdom, representing more than 30 organisations and over 50,000 affiliated members.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Guedalla

Also known as Guedalla, Philip, Phillip Guedalla.

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See also

Burials at Golders Green Jewish Cemetery

English people of Spanish-Jewish descent

People from Maida Vale

Politics of Derbyshire

Politics of Manchester

Politics of the London Borough of Hackney

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