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CHIPS OFF THE BLOCK

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_____| 4_ Henry Channon, Sir 1897-1958                           / |2_ Henry Paul Guinness Chanon, Baron 1935-2007 |                       \                                                           _____| 20_ Edward Cecil Guinness, Sir 1847-1927 |                        \                              _____| 10_ Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, Lord 1874-1967 |                         \                            /                            ¯¯¯¯¯| 21_ Adelaide Mary Guinness |                          ¯¯¯¯¯| 5_ Dorothy Mary Guinness, Lady |                                                     \ |                                                      ¯¯¯¯¯| 11_ Gwendolen Florence Mary Onslow, Lady 1881-1966 |--1_ Georgia Honor Margaretha Channon, Hon. |                                                                                   _____| 24_ Percy Scawen Wyndham, Hon. 1835-1911 |                                                       _____| 12_ Guy Percy Wyndham 1865-1941 |                                                      /                            ¯¯¯¯¯| 25_ Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell 1840-1920 |                          _____| 6_ Guy Richard Charles Wyndham 1896-1941 |                         /                           \ |                        /                             ¯¯¯¯¯| 13_ Edwina Virginia Joanna Fitzpatrick |3_ Ingrid Georgia Olivia Wyndham                           \                            ¯¯¯¯¯| 7_ Grethe Wulfsberg

Georgia Channon

 Gore Vidal once said, ‘If that boy isn’t gay, I will eat my hat.’

My Grandfather, "Chips" Channon

By Georgia Channon

Georgia Channon’s grandfather wrote horrible things in his diaries but she still wanted them to be published, warts and all

• The Oldie
• 1 Sep 2021

Both my grandfathers had nicknames. My father’s father, Henry Channon, was called Chips. It is a mystery why he was given this nickname. Did he once live with a Mr Fish at Oxford? Or was he the first person to introduce potato chips or crisps to London? Who knows?

My mother’s father, Richard Wyndham, was nicknamed Whips. Unfortunately, we do know why he was called that. He loved whipping ladies. However, according to his brother, Francis Wyndham, he always whipped the ladies gently, so as not to hurt them, Usually they enjoyed it, regularly returning for more.

Richard ‘Whips’ Wyndham was a terrible father. He was a talented painter and writer and he travelled the globe, being both. He fought at Ypres in 1914 and never really recovered from it. After the war, even when painting or drinking in the Gargoyle Club, he always seemed restless, as if he was continually searching for or possibly running from something. He died in 1948 in Jerusalem, where he was a war correspondent for the Times. He often wore Arab dress and was mistakenly shot dead, aged 52.

Coy Chips or Toothache

 

"CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING"
Lord of Hosts: The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon

Author: Richard Carreño
Publisher: Philabooks|Press
ISBN: 978-1-257-37529-5 Hardcover 178 pp $29.99
Publication: April 2011
Press Contact: Philabooks@yahoo.com
Website: www.LORDofHOSTSChipsChannon.webs.com

HE WAS A friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Fabulously rich. Married to a beautiful Guinness heiress. A Member of Parliament, an Oxford grad, a knight who owned London's most luxurious townhouse where he reigned as 'Lord of Hosts.'
Sir Henry Channon III, pre-war Britain's most eminent and outrageous pre-war politician and Society doyen, was also American-born and gay -- with lovers ranging from playwright Terrence Rattigan to the Duke of Kent, King George VI's brother.

Remembered as the irreverent 'Chips,' Channon is best known as a diarist, the proverbial 'fly on the wall.' The 'wall,' in Chips' case, being the halls of Parliament, the apartments of the rich and powerful, and his own pleasure dome at No. 5 Belgrave Square. Channon's memoirs, compiled in a single volume more than 40 years ago as Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, offer a compelling view of the tumultuous period from the 1930s through War World II. At least, for historians.
For most of the rest of us, Chips, whose preposterous adventure starts in Chicago en route to Paris, Oxford, and finally to London where he died in 1958, has just been a footnote. Quite literally. In scores of period histories. To be sure, a tantalising footnote. But a footnote, nonetheless.

It was a tale never fully fleshed out. Until now.

LORD OF HOSTS: THE LIFE OF SIR HENRY "CHIPS" CHANNON III

To date, the only biography of Chips