Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery was born on November 22, 1873, in Gorakhpur, India.

He was a British Conservative journalist and politician. He studied at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He could converse in French, German, Italian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Serbian, and Hungarian. During the Second Boer War in South Africa (1899-1902), Amery was a correspondent for The Times. In the 1911 Birmingham South by-election, he was unopposed as a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament, and he would hold that seat until 1945. During World War I, Amery's knowledge of Hungarian led to his employment as an Intelligence Officer in the Balkans campaign. He was opposed to the Constitution of the League of Nations. Amery was elected to the seat of Birmingham Sparkbrook in the 1918 general election. He was First Lord of the Admiralty (1922–1924) under Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin. From 1824 to 1929, he served as Colonial Secretary in Baldwin's government and set up the Empire Marketing Board in 1926. Amery spent a lot of time in Germany during the 1930s, where he met with Hitler, Mussolini, and other European leaders. He was a sharp critic of the Munich Agreement with Hitler and Mussolini and was a lifelong anti-communist. During the Churchill war ministry (1940-1945), he served as Secretary of State for India and Burma. Amery, a noted mountaineer, climbed in the Swiss Alps, Bavaria, Austria, Yugoslavia, Italy, and the Canadian Rockies, where Mount Amery is named after him. He published a three-volume autobiography, “My Political Life” (1953–1955).

In 1910, he married Adaliza Florence Louise Hamer Greenwood (1881–1975). He died on September 16, 1955, in London, England.

Sir Herbert Brown Ames was born on June 27, 1863, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He was educated at Amherst College, Massachusetts (B.A., 1885). He engaged in business in Montréal with the firm of Ames, Holden and Co. from 1885-1893 and later became a director of this and several other corporations. He became a Member of Parliament in 1904 as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada and served until 1920. Ames was a Montréal alderman from 1898 to 1906 and chairman of the Board of Health from 1900 to 1904. In these capacities, he helped to bring about important civic reforms. He also represented Montréal-St. Antoine district as a Conservative in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1920. From 1919 to 1926, he served as financial director of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in Geneva and was Canadian delegate to the Assembly of the League in 1926. Ames was knighted in 1915. He is best known for his book “The City Below the Hill: A Sociological Study of a portion of the city of Montreal, Canada,” which originally appeared as newspaper articles in the Montreal Star in 1897.

In 1890, he married Louisa Marion Kennedy (1869-1956). He died on March 31, 1954, in Montreal, Quebec.

Terrence Ames was the publisher, printer, and editor of The Fault Press, based in California. It published The Fault, a magazine of fiction, poetry, letters, photography and art.