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About Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton
Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton, was a British historian, academic and Labour Party politician. Having served in the British Army during the First World War, he was elected a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford in 1919 and appointed a lecturer in modern history by the University of Oxford. In 1934, he entered the House of Lords, having been made a peer by Ramsay MacDonald. He stepped down from his university posts in 1939 and became secretary of the Rhodes Trust.
Everything about Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton →- Occupation
- biographer, politician, historian, writer
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- March 29, 1892
- Died
- April 18, 1973