Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, Christopher Meyer, List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to the United States, David Manning, Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes, Nicholas Henderson, Julian Pauncefote, 1st Baron Pauncefote, Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel, Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer, George Hammond, Oliver Franks, Baron Franks, Frederick Wright-Bruce, John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian, Peter Jay, Charles Bagot, John Freeman, John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton, Sir Augustus Foster, 1st Baronet, Michael Henry Herbert, Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, Peter Ramsbotham, Mortimer Durand, Nigel Sheinwald, Antony Acland, Robin Renwick, Baron Renwick of Clifton, Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, Cecil Spring-Rice, Oliver Wright, Ronald Lindsay, Edward Thornton, Robert Liston, Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, Henry Stephen Fox, Patrick Dean. Excerpt: Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, (16 April 1881-23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940. As such he is often regarded as one of the architects of the policy of appeasement prior to World War II. During the war, he served as British Ambassador in Washington. He was born into a rather sickly West Country family: Halifax's three older brothers all died in infancy leaving him the heir to his father's viscountcy. Halifax himself was born with a withered left arm with no hand, a disability that...