Robert Cecil Gordon-Canning was a notable British fascist, anti-Semite and supporter of Arab nationalist causes.
18 Facts About Robert Gordon-Canning
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Robert Gordon-Canning was briefly married to Australian actress Mary Maguire.
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Robert Gordon-Canning's father was the fourth son of Captain Patrick Robert Gordon, of the 78th Highlanders, son of William Gordon of Milrig, Ayrshire and descended from a branch of Clan Gordon.
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Robert Gordon-Canning claimed, and it is sometimes stated as fact, that the poet Lord Byron, was his great-grandfather.
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Robert Gordon-Canning was educated at Eton, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars on 15 November 1906, and was promoted to lieutenant in the 10th Hussars on 14 March 1912.
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Robert Gordon-Canning was appointed a temporary captain on 18 November 1914, soon after the start of World War I, and this was confirmed on 15 May 1915.
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Robert Gordon-Canning was involved in advocating for Moroccan independence during the Rif War and visited Morocco at least twice in the mid-1920s, the first time for the Red Cross and later to present independence views to the French government.
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Robert Gordon-Canning has a shifty eye and is, I think, not altogether a disinterested peacemaker.
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In 1929 Robert Gordon-Canning visited Palestine and met with leaders of the Palestinian National Movement.
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Robert Gordon-Canning was a critic of British policy in Palestine.
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In 1934 Robert Gordon-Canning joined the British Union of Fascists.
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Robert Gordon-Canning wrote regularly for fascist publications and developed the BUF slogan "Mind Britain's Business", which was the title of one of his pamphlets.
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Robert Gordon-Canning hosted the first of a series of meetings of like minded personalities at his London flat on 19 September 1939.
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Robert Gordon-Canning met Australian-born Hollywood actress Mary Maguire in June 1939.
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Ironically, Robert Gordon-Canning had previously written disparagingly of the influence and tone of Hollywood films.
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In July 1940, Robert Gordon-Canning was interned under Defence Regulation 18B and was not released until 1943.
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Robert Gordon-Canning states Gordon-Canning allowed his apartment to be used as a meeting place for Arab nationalists and claimed to be a close friend of Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam.
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In November 2002 the Security Service files on Robert Gordon-Canning were released into the public domain.