The Honourable Angus McDonnell CB CMG (7 June 1881 – 22 April 1966) was a British engineer, diplomat and Conservative Party politician.
He subsequently moved to the United States, where he worked for Chiswell Langhorne in constructing railways in Virginia.
[1] He returned to the United Kingdom, where he was chosen by the Conservative Party to contest the constituency of Dartford at the 1924 general election.
[1] When America entered the Second World War in 1941, McDonnell was appointed Honorary Attaché to Washington where he was able to use his personal and business contacts to assist Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States.
He would be the advance agent to Halifax's speeches and planned a punishing schedule of talks by the ambassador to the American public.