Leopoldus Amery

Leopoldus Amery, communiter Leo Amery vel L. S. Amery, nomine pleno Leopold Charles Moritz (postea Maurice) Stennett Amery (natus ad Gorakhpur Indiae die 22 Novembris 1873; mortuus die 16 Septembris 1955) fuit diurnarius et politicorum peritus Britannicus, qui praecipue de Imperio Britannico egit.

Leo Amery alumnus fuit Scholae Harrovianae et Collegii de Balliolo Universitatis Oxoniensis, ubi socius Collegii Omnium Animarum electus est. Ab anno 1911 usque ad annum 1945, sodalis factionis Liberalis Unionistae moxque Conservativae, fuit legatus apud Parlamentum Britannicum pro circulo Birminghamiae Meridionalis.

Persona Leopoldi Amery una cum filiis Iohanne et Iuliano videtur in fabula scaenica An English Tragedy a Ronaldo Harwood anno 2008 docta.

Mons Amery Canadianus, ad honorem Leopoldi Amery anno 1927 appellatus, ad dextram partem imaginis visus. Amery ipse primus anno 1929 hunc montem superavit

Tabula magistratuum

Minister Classis (First Lord of the Admiralty) : 31 October 1922 – 28 January 1924
Secretarius Coloniarum : 6 November 1924 – 4 June 1929
Secretarius Indiae et Birmaniae : 13 May 1940 – 26 July 1945

Opera

1900-1909 (editor) : The Times History of the War in South Africa (7 voll. Londinii: Sampson Low, Marston)
1903 : The Problem of the Army (Londinii: Arnold)
1906 : The Fundamental Fallacies of Free Trade (Londinii)
1912 : Union and Strength: a series of papers on imperial questions (Londinii: Arnold)
1928 : The Empire in the New Era: speeches delivered during an Empire tour, 1927-1928 (Londinii: Arnold)
1934 : The Stranger of the Ulysses (Londinii: Jarrolds)
1935 : The Forward View (Londinii: Geoffrey Bles)
1939 : The German Colonial Claim (Edimburgi: Chambers)
1940 : Days of Fresh Air, being reminiscences of outdoor life (Londinii: Hutchinson)
1944 : The Framework of the Future (Londinii: Oxford University Press)
1946 : The Washington Loan Agreements : a critical study of American economic foreign policy (Londinii: Macdonald)
1946 : In the Rain and the Sun: a sequel to Days of fresh air (Londinii: Hutchinson)
1947 : Thoughts on the Constitution (Londinii: Oxford University Press. Ed. 2a: 1953)
1948 : The Awakening: our present crisis and the way out (Londinii: Macdonald)
1953-1955 : My Political Life (3 voll. Londinii)
1954 : A Balanced Economy (Londinii: Hutchinson)

Breviora

1930 : The Empire and Prosperity (Londinii: Faber & Faber. Criterion miscellany, 23)
1936 : The Odyssey: presidential address delivered to the Classical Association (Londinii: John Murray)
1948 : The Elizabethan Spirit (Oxonii: Basil Blackwell)
1949 : Thought and Language: English Association presidential address, 1949 (Londinii: Oxford University Press)

Post mortem collecta

1980-1988 (edd. John Barnes, David Nicholson) : The Leo Amery Diaries (2 voll. Londinii: Hutchinson) Vol.1: 1896-1929. ISBN 0-09-131910-2. Vol. 2: The Empire at Bay, 1929-1945. ISBN 0-09-167290-2

Bibliographia

Vernon Bogdanor, "What Would Leo Amery Have Thought?" in Times Literary Supplement (11 Iulii 1997)
David Faber, Speaking for England: Leo, Julian and John Amery: The Tragedy of a Political Family. Novi Eboraci: Free Press, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-5688-3
W. R. Louis, In the Name of God, Go! Leo Amery and the British Empire in the Age of Churchill (1992)
William Rubinstein, "The secret of Leopold Amery" in Historical Research vol. 73 (2000) pp. 175–196

Nexus externi

Documenta de Leopoldo Amery apud National Register of Archives
"Leopold Amery" apud Spartacus
De monte Amery