Robert Boothby

Nationality

United Kingdom

Date of Birth

1900

Date of Death

1986

Political
Preference

Conservative

Robert Boothby was a British Conservative. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill from 1926 to 1929.
During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force, and later as a liaison officer with the Free French Forces – for which he received the Legion of Honour in 1950.

Boothby was a British delegate to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1949 until 1958 and advocated the United Kingdom’s entry into the European Economic Community. In 1952 he published an article in the French magazine Notre Europe on the United Kingdom’s European policy.