High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Henry "Chips" Channon (7 March 1897 – 7 October 1958) was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation. He wrote extensively about these views. Channon quickly became enamoured of London society and became a social and political climber.