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About Leo Amery
Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, also known as L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. During his career, he was known for his interest in military preparedness, British India and the British Empire and for his opposition to appeasement. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies (1924–29), opposed the National Government of the 1930s and served as Secretary of State for India during the Second World War (1940–45). He was also a prolific writer whose output included a multi-volume history of the Second Boer War and several volumes of memoirs and diaries.
Everything about Leo Amery →- Occupation
- politician, journalist, writer
- Position held
- Secretary of State for the Colonies, Secretary of State for India, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Admiralty
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
- Born
- November 22, 1873
- Died
- September 16, 1955