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Price of Mistake. Finally, Her Majesty's government was forced to recognize that they had made a mistake. Under new Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, agreements were worked out which changed the Kabaka from an absolute to a constitutional (and therefore more manageable) monarch, and King Freddie agreed to swear renewed loyalty and obedience to the Queen. But Freddie got more than he gave. The British reshaped the protectorate's Legislative Council to include, for the first time, more Africans than whites. They promised not to press the East African Federation. They gave Buganda control over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUGANDA: Exile's Return | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...Britons came to admire the Kabaka's refusal to foment trouble; they were even more impressed by the unchanging loyalty of his people back home, who adamantly refused to accept any other king. As the months passed, the Colonial Office, under the direction of a new minister, Alan Lennox-Boyd, came to the reluctant conclusion that the whole thing might have been a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUGANDA: Reprieve for Freddie | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...Colonial Secretary stepped Oliver Lyttelton, who has labored long and with some success in coping with Mau Maus in Kenya and Communists in Malaya, and has been yearning to return to big business. His successor: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 49, a brilliant Oxonian who married into the wealthy Guinness family. As Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, he guided the restoration of road transport from Socialist nationalization to private ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Patching Up | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...Britain there was consternation, for the Comet was a heady symbol of Britain's postwar comeback. For the second time in 13 weeks, the Comet fleet was grounded. Civil Aviation Minister Lennox-Boyd announced that the Comets' certificate of airworthiness would be withdrawn "pending further detailed investigations." No one in Britain would admit it. but the writing on the wall was plain. Comet I, after flying 55,000 passengers more than 7,000,000 miles, was unlikely to carry passengers again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death of the Comet I | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Engaged. The Hon. Heather Grace Baden-Powell, 19, daughter of Lieut.- General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, head of the Boy Scouts; and Lieut. G. E. Lennox-Boyd of the Highland Light Infantry; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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