Billington, David Perkins, Jr., “Lothian: Philip Kerr and the quest for world order”, PhD thesis, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1995. Brief summary.

“Philip Henry Kerr (1882-1940), eleventh Marquess of Lothian from 1930, served as first editor of The Round Table (1910-16), secretary to Prime Minster David Lloyd George (1916-21), secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (1925-39), chairman of the Indian Franchise Committee (1931-32), and British ambassador to the United States (August 1939-December 1940)…. Starting as proteges of Lord Milner before 1914, the Round Table fellowship had an influence in interwar debate over British foreign and imperial policy through their access to leading figures and leading newspapers such as The Times…. He tried to give rights and demand duties from peoples who did not want to belong either to the British Empire or to a larger liberal-democratic world. In the 1930s, his efforts to give Indians more power may have helped avert a more violent clash between Britain and Indian nationalism.” From the abstract.