The Earl of Athlone (seated right) with the Allied leaders at the Quebec Conferences.
Athlone served as Governor General during the Second World War and hosted the Québec Conferences at La Citadelle in 1943 and 1944, where Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin Roosevelt met to decide Allied strategy for victory over Germany and Japan. A maternal uncle of King George VI, Athlone was the last close relative of the monarch to serve as Governor General of Canada.
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The Earl of Athlone created the Athlone Fellowship for Canadian Graduate Engineers to participate in the UK universities. Is there any chance that you have, or know of, a history of the establishment of this Fellowship?
Anything that you think of would be welcome.
As an Athlone Fellow (1962), I am trying to assembly or find such a history.
Many thanks