Henry Channon

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Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon (March 7, 1897 – October 7, 1958) was a Conservative politician whose highest office was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office.

At the 1935 general election, he was returmed as Member of Parliament for Southend. After boundary chnages in 1950, he was re-elected for the new Southend West constituency, holding the seat until his death in 1958. His son, Paul Channon, won the consequent Southend West by-election.

Henry Channon, known as 'Chips', is best known for his Diaries, covering the years 1934-52. They were edited by Robert Rhodes James and published in 1967. Another political diarist, Alan Clark, greatly admired them.

He is also the father of British trade minister Paul Channon and grandfather of Paul Channon's daughter, Olivia, who died in 1986 in a high-profile circumstance, being found dead, in 1986, in the Oxford rooms of Count Gottfried von Bismarck [1].