AMERY, Leopold Charles Maurice Sten nett, English journalist and politician: b. Go ralchpore, India, 22 Nov. 1873. Educated at Har row and Balliol College, Oxford, he secured several °Firsts" and the Ousley scholarship in Turkish, as well as a fellowship for history at All Souls' College, Oxford. In 1896-97 he was private secretary to Mr. Leonard (now Lord) Courtney, and in the latter year set out on an extensive tour through southeastern Europe, contributing articles to English newspapers, which led to his joining the editorial staff of The Times in 1899. He was sent to south Af rica shortly before the Boer war broke out, met President Kruger and the Boer leaders, and actually received permission from General Joubert to accompany the Boer army. Mr. Amery spent the first week of the war in the Boer camp at Sandspruit, when he was in formed that his life was not safe. He pro ceeded to Cape Town and organized the staff of war correspondents of The Times— some 20 men attached to the various British columns. On his return he undertook the editorship of The Times' 'History of the War in South Af rica' (7 vols., London 1900-09), meanwhile writing regularly on military, economic and im perial questions in the columns of that paper. His book, 'The Problem of the Army' (1903) was largely responsible for the subsequent re organization of the War Office. He became a
barrister in 1902, but never practised. In 1903 he followed Chamberlain in the great tariff re form struggle, in which he opposed Britain's Free Trade policy in the press and on the plat form, his 'Fundamental Fallacies of Free Trade' (1906) being regarded as one of the best contributions to the controversy. Rite four unsuccessful attempts to enter Parlia ment — in 1906, 1908, January 1910 and Decem ber 1910 — he was returned unopposed fo: South Birmingham as a Unionist in 1911 Though short of stature and slim in build, he delights in neck-breaking adventures, havir.... climbed in the Alps, the Balkans, the and the Drakensberg Mountains. He traversed the Fraser River for 300 miles in a boat (1C(v and in 1910 accompanied the late Lord Grr then governor-general of Canada, on a 4i miles' canoe expedition. Shortly after the out break of the European War Amery received a commission with the rank of captain and at tached to the staff in France as interpreter 1915 he was sent on a special mission to the Balkans, appointed general-staff officer in 191/1 and assistant secretary to the War Cabinet m 1917. Mrs. Amery is a Canadian lady, sister of Lieut.-Col. Sir Hamar Greenwood, Iletemr of Parliament.