Viscount Lymington: The journey of a fascist ‘fellow traveler’

Abstract

This study, in short, excavates the political career of Viscount Lymington. He was, at various points, a member of parliament, an aristocrat, a lord, an agriculturalist, an author, and, in the late 1930s, a popular fascist ideologue.

This historical study tracks Lymington as he travelled through the late 1920s, into and through the 1930s and wartime, showcasing how his ideas and politics evolved into an identifiably fascist worldview and how he obtained a prominent position within the British fascist milieu of the inter-war period. Lymington journeyed fromhis place as a young conservative aristocrat to an important tributary to the historical development of British
fascism. This study is an investigation into that process.

Date of Award	2022
Original language	English