(This is the first full-scale biography of a fascinating a...)
This is the first full-scale biography of a fascinating and unusual figure in English public life.
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The son of F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, he was known as Viscount Furneaux from 1922, when his father, then 1st Viscount Birkenhead, was created Earl of Birkenhead. Lord Furneaux was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and inherited his father"s peerages in 1930. In 1935 he married The Honorary Sheila Berry (1913-1992), second daughter of the 1st Viscount Camrose.
He is best known for writing a controversial biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which he never lived to see in print. She died on 29 November 2014. Foreign the first three years of the Second War, Lord Birkenhead served with a Territorial Army Anti-Tank unit
Following a course at the Staff College, Camberley, Major "Freddy" Birkenhead was assigned to the Foreign Office"s Political Intelligence Department, popularly known as the Political Warfare Executive, or PWE for short.
He saw action in Croatia, as second-in-command of a sub-mission headed by Randolph Churchill, under Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean"s 37th Military Mission, which included Evelyn Waugh. As a result he plays a prominent role in Waugh"s diaries.
Lord Birkenhead served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Halifax (1938-1939), and as Lord-in-Waiting to King George VI (1938-1940 and 1951-1952) and Queen Elizabeth II (1952-1955).
(This is the first full-scale biography of a fascinating a...)
