The Cliveden Set were a British 1930s group of prominent individuals, the circle of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. The name comes from Cliveden, the stately home in Buckinghamshire, which was then her country home. Events and trends Technology Jet engine invented Science Nuclear fission discovered by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann Pluto, the ninth planet from the Sun, is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh British biologist Arthur Tansley coins term ecosystem War, peace and politics Socialists proclaim The death of Capitalism Rise to... Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (May 19, 1879 - May 2, 1964) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent Astor family. ... Cliveden is a mansion in Berkshire (though until the county borders changed in 1974 it was in Buckinghamshire) with an intriguing history. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in south central England. ...

The Cliveden Set tag was applied at the time by Claud Cockburn in his journalism for The Week. It has long been widely accepted that this clique was in favour of the appeasement of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Norman Rose has written a study, and proposes that, when gathered at Cliveden, it functioned more like a think-tank than a cabal. Patrick Claud Cockburn (pronounced coburn) (1904-1981) was a renowned radical British journalist, who was controversial for his Stalinist sympathies. ... Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), a German politician who was the founder of the Third Reich (1933-1945), is widely regarded as one of the most significant and reviled leaders in world history. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Think Tank can be: a Spoken Word recording by Henry Rollins an album by the band Blur a museum in Birmingham, England think tanks, idea-producing organizations. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Prominent members

Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the London Times George Geoffrey Dawson (October 25, 1874, Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire - November 7, 1944, London) was editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and again from 1923 until 1941. ...

Lord Lothian, author and politician Philip Henry Kerry, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940) was a British politician who briefly served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1931 and later as British Ambassador to the United States of America from 1939 to 1940. ...

Lord Halifax, politician Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, known as Lord Irwin from 1926 until 1934, (1881-1959) was a British Conservative politician. ...

Reference

• The Cliveden Set:Portrait of an Exclusive Fraternity (2000) Norman Rose