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"LEOPOLD CHARLES MAURICE STENNETT AMERY (1873), British politician, was born at Gorakhpur, North-West Provinces, India, Nov. 22 1873, and was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected to an All Souls fellowship in 1897, and, after travelling for a year in the Near East, in 1899 joined the staff of The Times. He acted as chief correspondent to that paper during the South African War, and was also editor of The Times History of the War in South Africa. In 1906 he stood as a Unionist and Tariff Reformer for Wolverhampton East, but was defeated, being also unsuccessful in 1908 and 1910. He was, however, elected to Parliament for Sparkbrook, Birmingham, in 1911, retaining the seat at the election of 1918. From 1914 to 1916 he served with the army, first in France and later at Salonika, but in 1917 became assistant secretary to the War Cabinet, and from 1917 to 1918 was on the personal staff of the Secretary for War. In Jan. 1919 he became Under-Secretary for the Colonies, and during Lord Milner's absence in Egypt in the winter of 1919-20 was acting secretary. In 1921 he was appointed Under-Secretary at the Admiralty.

He has published various works, including The Problem of the Army (1903); Fundamental Fallacies of Free Trade (1906); The Great Question (1909); Union and Strength (1912).