Introduction & Chapter Summaries
HUGH CORTAZZI
List of Contributors
Abbreviations/ Names and Name Order
1. British Relations with Japan, 1852–2017: An Overview ANTONY BEST
2. Lord John Russell, 1792–1878
[lst Earl Russell]
Foreign Secretary, 1852–53, 1859–69
ANDREW COBBING
3. Lord Clarendon, 1800–1870
[George William Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon]
Foreign Secretary, 1853–58, 1865–66, 1868–70
ROBERT MORTON
4. Lord Granville, 1815–1891
[George Leveson Gower’ 2nd Earl Granville]
Foreign Secretary, 1870–74, 1880–85
ANDREW COBBING
5. Lord Derby, 1826–1893
[Lord Stanley & 15th Earl of Derby]
Foreign Secretary as Lord Stanley, 1866–68; as Lord Derby 1874–78
ROBERT MORTON & ANDREW COBBING
6. Lord Salisbury, 1830–1903
[3rd Marquess of Salisbury]
Foreign Secretary, 1878–80, 1885–86, 1887–92, 1895–1900.
Prime Minister, 1885–86, 1886–92, 1895–1902
THOMAS OTTE
7. Lord Rosebery, 1847–1929
[5th Earl of Rosebery]
Foreign Secretary, 1886, 1892–94
Prime Minister, 1894–95
IAN NISH
8. Lord Kimberley, 1826–1902
[John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley]
Foreign Secretary, 1894–95
THOMAS OTTE
9. Lord Lansdowne, 1845–1927
[Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne]
Foreign Secretary, 1900–05
THOMAS OTTE
10. Sir Francis Bertie, 1844–1919
Key official in framing the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
THOMAS OTTE
11. Sir Edward Grey, 1862–1933
[Viscount Grey of Falloden]
Foreign Secretary, 1905–16
IAN NISH
12. Arthur James Balfour, 1848–1930
[lst Earl of Balfour]
Foreign Secretary, 1916–19
Prime Minister, 1902–05
IAN NISH
13. Lord Curzon, 1859–1925
[George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston]
Foreign Secretary, 1919–24
IAN NISH
14. James Ramsay MacDonald, 1866–1937
Foreign Secretary,
Prime Minister, 1929–31
JOHN FERRIS
15. Austen Chamberlain, 1863–1937
Foreign Secretary, 1924–29
Neville Chamberlain, 1869–1940
Prime Minister, 1937–40
ANTONY BEST
16. Sir John Simon, 1873–1954
[lst Viscount Simon]
Foreign Secretary, 1931–35
ANTONY BEST
17. Lord Lytton, 1876–1947
[Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton],
A key role in advancing Anglo-Japanese Relations in the 1930s
ANTONY BEST
18. Sir Samuel Hoare, 1880–1959
[Samuel Gurney, 1st Viscount Templewood]
Foreign Secretary, June-December
ANTONY BEST
19. Sir Anthony Eden, 1897–1977
[lst Earl of Avon]
Foreign Secretary 1935–38, 1940–45, 1951–55
ANTONY BEST
20. Lord Halifax, 1881–1959
[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax]
Foreign Secretary, 1938–40
ANTONY BEST
21. Lord Hankey, 1877–1963 and R.A. Butler, 1902–1982 and the ‘Appeasement of Japan, 1939–1941
Foreign Secretary (Butler), 1963–64
ANTONY BEST
22. Ernest Bevin, 1881–1951
Foreign Secretary, 1945–51
ROGER BUCKLEY
23. Winston Churchill, 1874–1965
Prime Minister, 1940–45, 1951–55
EIJI SEKI
24. Britain and Japan, 1950–1990: A British Perspective
HUGH CORTAZZI
25. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 1903–1995
[14th Earl of Home]
Foreign Secretary, 1960–63, 1970–74
Prime Minister, 1963–64
ANTONY BEST
26. Edward Heath, 1916–2005
Prime Minister, 1970–74
HUGH CORTAZZI
27. Margaret Thatcher, 1925–2013
[Baroness Thatcher]
Prime Minister, 1979–90
HUGH CORTAZZI
28. Sir Geoffrey Howe, 1926–2015
[Lord Howe of Aberavon]
Foreign Secretary, 1983–89
DAVID WARREN
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