Eliot Crawshay-Williams Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles

Eliot Crawshay-Williams (1879-1962), the son of a Welsh politician, was Member of Parliament for Leicester from 1910 to 1913, when he resigned after being named in a divorce case brought by another M. P., Hubert Carr-Gomm. Before entering Parliament, Crawshay-Williams was employed by future Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Colonial office from 1906 to 1908. Before joining Parliament, he wrote the book Across Persia (1907), about an eight-month journey that he took across Iran. Later in life, he took up the pen in earnest and became an author, playwright, screenwright and poet, with writing credits on 3 movies during the early 1930s, the play Fascination, the books Night in the Hotel, Simple Story: An Accidental Autobiography and Leaves from an Officer's Notebooks, as well as Songs on Service, a collection of poetry.