QuoteGodfrey Elton
Historian of robustly old-fashioned views; in the 1930s, made Lord Elton by Ramsay MacDonald, whose son he had taught, leading Lewis Namier to the celebrated comment that "In the eighteenth-century peers made their tutors under-secretaries; in the twentieth under-secretaries make their tutors peers." Elton's poems contrast Sandhurst with far-flung corners of the British Empire: serving as a Captain, he was taken prisoner at the siege of Kut-el-Amara, April 1916, and so survived the war but ceased to contribute to OP.
he wrote a book about Ramsay MacDonald
seems to be a fabian by association with MacDonald
if you have a Jstor account
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1405998 (http://www.jstor.org/pss/1405998)
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QuoteMacDonald took the post of Foreign Secretary as well as Prime Minister, and made it clear that his main priority was to undo the damage which he believed had been caused by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, by settling the reparations issue and coming to terms with Germany.
not that one can trust wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald)
i wonder if he was related to Archibald Ramsay
QuoteMacDonald was born in Lossiemouth, in Morayshire in northeast Scotland, the illegitimate son of John Macdonald, a
http://www.headington.org.uk/history/fa ... /elton.htm (http://www.headington.org.uk/history/famous_people/elton.htm)
Quotefarm labourer, and Anne Ramsay, a housemaid.
Godfrey Elton, first Baron Elton of Headington (1892–1973) was a historian. He was born at Sherington rectory in Newport Pagnell, the eldest child of Edward Fiennes Elton and Violet Hylda, who was the daughter of the Revd Carteret John Halford Fletcher, rector of Carfax church, Oxford.
Elton obtained a first in classical honour moderations at Balliol College in 1913, and then went on to read History. He never took his finals, however, as in 1914 he was commissioned into the 4th Hampshire regiment and served in Mesopotamia.
In 1919 Elton was elected to a fellowship in Modern History at The Queen's College, Oxford.
Around this time Elton joined the Labour Party, but failed to get elected as an MP for Thornbury in Gloucestershire.
In 1928 Elton came to live at Greenways at 40 Osler Road (then called Manor Road). He was a strong admirer of the prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, and in 1934 he was created Baron Elton of Headington. He moved from Osler Road in about 1946.
Lord Elton died at the Dower House in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire on 18 April 1973. His son Rodney succeeded him as the second Baron Elton of Headington.
note the freemasonic hand signal
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http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page136.asp (http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page136.asp)