Henry Hamilton Beamish

Henry Hamilton Beamish was a leading British antisemitic journalist and the founder of The Britons in 1919, the first organisation set up in Britain for the express purpose of diffusing antisemitic propaganda. After a conviction for libel the same year, Beamish fled Britain and began a career of touring speaker, travelling to Germany, Canada, the United States or Japan in order to promote antisemitic and fascist causes. In 1923, he spoke at one of Adolf Hitler's meetings in Munich, and met Julius Streicher in Nuremberg in 1937. Beamish settled in Southern Rhodesia in 1938, where he served as an independent Member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly between 1938 and 1940, then was interned for three years during the Second World War due to his pro-Nazi sentiments. Upon his release, Beamish returned to England and died in March 1948, aged 74.