N 13067 Courtauld Thomson. A Memoir L. A. G. Strong. John Murray Fifty Albemar le Street London. Limited Edition o fone hundred copies privately printed 1958 by Butler Tanner , Formand London. 115 pgs. 15x23cm. Encadernado.
London - John Murray, 1958. Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. First edition. A smartly boundfirst editionof this biography of the 1st Baron Courtauld-Thomson. First Edition. Limited edition of one hundred copies. With the armorial bookplate of Courtauld Thompson, Dorneywood,to the first blank. Featuring a portrait frontispiece. Contains several photographic plates. With a bookbinder's stamp for Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London, to the front free endpaper. Courtauld Greenwood Courtauld-Thomson, 1st Baron Courtauld-Thomson CB, KBE (18651954) was a British businessman and holder of public and charitable offices. In 1914 he was appointed Commissioner for the Red Cross and Order of St John. In 1916 he was appointed a CB and in 1918 a KBE. His country seat was at Dorneywood, Buckinghamshire. In the Second World War he turned it into a hostel for officers in the allied air forces. In 1944 he was raised to the peerage 'for philanthropic and public services'.

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