The Cliveden set were an upper-class group of politically influential people active in the 1930s in the United Kingdom, prior to the Second World War. They were in the circle of Nancy Astor, Viscounte
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, known as the 1st Baron Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the 3rd Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician of the 19
Cliveden set
…William Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester, politician Edward Wood (Lord Halifax), politician The Remains of the Day – Lord Darlington, the fictional secondary protagonist in British author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel The Remains…
Halifax in 1944
Statue of Lord Irwin at Coronation Park, Delhi
Lord Halifax with Hermann Göring at Schorfheide, Germany, 20 November 1937
Halifax and Winston Churchill in 1938. Note Halifax's artificial left hand, concealed under a black glove.