Lionel George Curtis

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Lionel George Curtis

Lionel George Curtis (born March 7, 1872 in Little Eaton , Derbyshire , England , † November 24, 1955 in Oxford , Oxfordshire ) was a British civil servant and writer. He pleaded for a federal British world empire (Imperial Federation) and later for a world state . His ideas about dyarchy were taken into account in the development of the Government of India Act 1919 . His writings significantly influenced the development of the Commonwealth of Nations .

Life

Curtis graduated from Haileybury College and then the University of Oxford and became a lawyer. He fought as a volunteer in the Second Boer War with the City Imperial Volunteers and worked as a secretary to Lord Milner - a job that the adventure writer John Buchan also held. During this time he devoted himself extensively to the creation of a unified, self-governing South Africa . After Milner's death in 1925, he became the second head of " Milner's Kindergarten "; a task he performed until his death in 1955. He recorded his experiences to a concept of a world government (Federal World Government) , which became his life's work. To pursue this goal, he founded the quarterly magazine The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs in 1910 . In 1912 he was appointed Beit Lecturer in Colonial History at Oxford University and a Fellow at All Souls College .

At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, British and American delegates, led by Lionel Curtis, suggested the establishment of an institution to study international problems with the aim of avoiding future wars. The realization of this concept led to the establishment of the Royal Institute of International Affairs .

Publications

Curtis' most important works are:

literature

  • World Revolution In The Cause of Peace , Basil Blackwell, Oxford (1949)
  • Deborah Lavin: From Empire to International Commonwealth: A Biography of Lionel Curtis , Oxford University Press (1995), ISBN 0-19-812616-6
  • John Edward Kendle: The Round Table movement and imperial union , University of Toronto Press (1975), ISBN 0-8020-5292-4
  • Carroll Quigley: The Anglo-American Establishment

Single sources

  1. ^ Fromkin, David: "A Peace to end all Peace" 1989, p. 232.
  2. ^ Edgar Trevor Williams, AF Madden, David Kenneth Fieldhouse. Oxford and the Idea of ​​Commonwealth. Routledge, 1982. (pp. 39, 98)

Remarks

  1. ^ A professorship for lectures on the history of the British Empire, paid from the Beit Fund

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personal data
SURNAME Curtis, Lionel George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Curtis, Lionel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British civil servant and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Eaton , Derbyshire
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1955
Place of death at Oxford