Anglo-Albanian Association

The Anglo-Albanian Association is an association established in 1913 by Aubrey Herbert under the name Albanian Committee.[1] In 1918 this committee evolved into Anglo-Albanian Society and then into the Anglo-Albanian Association.[2]

Objectives

The Anglo-Albanian Association was founded to support the Albanian cause in Great Britain and to promote recognition of the Independent Albania.[3]

Members

Some of the members were Edith Durham, Lord Lamington and Dervish Duma.[4]

After 1985 the Chairman of the Anglo-Albanian Association was Harry Hodgkinson, British writer, journalist, and naval intelligence officer.[5] Its current president is Noel Malcolm.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Elsie, Robert. "1912 Aubrey Herbert: A Meeting with Isa Boletini". Robert Elsie. Retrieved 10 August 2012. At the time of the Conference of Ambassadors in London in 1913, he founded an Albanian Committee
  2. ↑ Elsie, Robert. "1912 Aubrey Herbert: A Meeting with Isa Boletini". Robert Elsie. Retrieved 10 August 2012. This Albanian Committee evolved into the Anglo-Albanian Society (1918), of which Herbert was president, and finally into the Anglo-Albanian Association.
  3. ↑ Elsie, Robert (2010), Historical dictionary of Albania, Lanham: Scarecrow Press, p. 13, ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3, OCLC 454375231, retrieved 4 February 2012
  4. ↑ Elsie, Robert (2010), Historical dictionary of Albania, Lanham: Scarecrow Press, p. 14, ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3, OCLC 454375231, retrieved 4 February 2012
  5. ↑ "Harry Hodgkinson". United Kingdom: Macmillan. 2008. Retrieved 27 November 2010. Harry Hodgkinson (1913–1994) was a writer, journalist, naval intelligence officer, Balkan expert and from 1985 Chairman of the Anglo-Albanian Association.
  6. ↑ Elsie, Robert (2010), Historical dictionary of Albania, Lanham: Scarecrow Press, p. 14, ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3, OCLC 454375231, retrieved 4 February 2012

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