Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton of Headington (1892-1973)

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Godfrey 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

MacDonald 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

i wonder if he was related to Archibald Ramsay

MacDonald 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

farm 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
[youtube:mzfv4nlj]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHs9IM_a0e0[/youtube]mzfv4nlj]

http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page136.asp

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Here is the connection
Godfrey Elton good friends with Ramsey MacDonald who was associated with Mosley

http://www.oswaldmosley.com/

Oswald Mosley was in the Fabian Society and his Grandson was recently  caught on video with women dressed as prison guards, but the Jackals said they were NAZI's.

Godfrey seems to have several interesting books

Elton, Godfrey Elton, Baron
The unarmed invasion; a survey of Afro-Asian immigration

The First Fifty Years of the Rhodes Trust and the Rhodes Scholarships, 1903-1953
http://www.questia.com/library/book/the ... 53-by-.jsp

The Revolutionary Idea in France, 1789-1871 by Godfrey Elton