George Makgill

Sir George Makgill, 11th Baronet, de jure 11th Viscount of Oxfuird (24 December 1868 – 16 October 1926) was a Scottish peer, novelist and right-wing propagandist.

[2] As Sir George Makgill, he settled in Eye, Suffolk, leasing Yaxley Hall, an Elizabethan mansion, from Lord Henniker.

In 1915 and 1916, he brought a lawsuit to strip the German-born banker Ernest Cassel and American-born of German parents railway financier Edgar Speyer of their Privy Council membership;[4] the case was dismissed, but Edgar Speyer's British citizenship was stripped after the war.

The IIB's agents included Maxwell Knight and John Baker White,[6] who later characterized Makgill as "perhaps the greatest Intelligence officer produced in this century".

Makgill's novels were often colonial adventure stories; he also wrote for Austin Harrison's English Review on the Anti-German Union (December 1915 and February 1916) and on imperial reconstruction (April 1917).