Duff Cooper (1890-1954; ODNB), New Coll., Oxford; foreign office, 1913-24; m. (1919) the society beauty, Lady Diana Manners; MP (C) Oldham, 1924-9, and after a famous by-election, St George's Westminster, 1931-45; biographer of Talleyrand and Earl Haig; financial secretary, war office, 1928-9, 1931-4, and Treasury, 1934-5; secretary of state for war, 1935-7; first lord of the admiralty, 1937-8, resigning in opposition to the Munich agreement; minister of information 1940-1; ambassador to France, 1944-7; 1st Viscount Norwich, 1952. See Volume 69, 73, 74, 78, 83.

Not mentioned in any journals.