THE WAR SPEECHES. Compiled by Charles Eade.
Cassell & Company ltd. London. 1951-2, 1951.
FIRST EDITION. 1st printings. Three volumes. Large 8vo (10 x 6.5 inches). A fine, bright set in publishers full dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Original dustwrappers with a few very small chips to the edges and minor toning to spines but overall a lovely clean set of the definitive edition of Churchill's war speeches. ---- Ronald Cohen. Bibliography of Winston Churchill: A263.1 (I, II, III). With the armorial bookplates of Sir Tom Hickinbotham, KCMG, KCVO, CIE, OBE. (1903 – 1983) British colonial administrator who served as governor of Aden from 1951 to 1956 on each front pastedown endpaper, with 'Aden 1952' written neatly below in red ink. Born in Carnarvon, Western Australia, Hickinbotham attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and then went on to join the Indian Army in 1923, serving on the North West Frontier for which he was decorated. In 1930, he transferred to the Indian Political Service and served successively in Aden from 1931 to 1932, 1933 to 1935, and 1938 and 1939; then as political agent in Bahrain in 1937; Muscat from 1939 to 1941, Kuwait from 1941 to 1943; Bahrain from 1943 to 1945; and Qalat from 1945 to 1947. In 1948, Hickinbotham returned to Aden Colony where he served for three years as chairman of the Aden Port Trust, before being appointed Governor and Commander-in-chief of Aden in 1951, a post he held until his retirement in 1956. A highlight of his term in office was the visit to Aden of Queen Elizabeth in 1954.
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