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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood ( 16 avril 1881 – 23 décembre 1959) est un homme politique britannique, membre du Parti conservateur et vice-roi des Indes de 1926 à 1931. Il est une personnalité politique majeure du Royaume-Uni dans les années 1930, connu comme comte d'Halifax ( Lord Halifax ).
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.
Earl of Halifax is a title that has been created four times in British history—once in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The name of the peerage refers to Halifax, West Yorkshire .
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of Halifax, British viceroy of India (1925–31), foreign secretary (1938–40), and ambassador to the United States (1941–46). As Neville Chamberlain’s foreign secretary, he was identified with the policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lord Halifax is the third child and only son of Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, a grandson of Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary.
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax. Foreign Secretary February 1938 to December 1940. Lord Halifax took over at the Foreign Office following the resignation of Anthony Eden in ...
Charles Lindley Wood (7 janvier 1839 – 19 janvier 1934), 2 e vicomte d'Halifax, est un homme politique anglais et un laïc anglo-catholique qui se consacre au dialogue entre l'anglicanisme et le catholicisme romain.
