1. J. Ramsden, The Age of Balfour and Baldwin 1902–1940 (London: Longman, 1978), 183.
2. For the political developments of 1922–24, see C. Cook, The Age of Alignment: Electoral Politics in Britain 1922–1929 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1975).
3. M. Cowling, The Impact of Labour 1920–1924: The Beginning of Modern British Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971).
4. Memo by Dawson, 20 Dec. 1923, Bodleian Library, Dawson MSS; Amery diary, 8 and 13 Dec. 1923, in J. Barnes and D. Nicholson (eds), The Leo Amery Diaries, Volume 1:1899–1929 (London: Hutchinson, 1980), 361–2 (hereafter Amery Diaries).
5. Memo by Stamfordham (Private Secretary to King George V) of Baldwin’s meeting with the King, 10 Dec. 1923, in R. Churchill, Lord Derby: ‘King of Lancashire’ (London: Heinemann, 1959), 552.