in the new anti-black campaign of the UM, which won it some support in Brixton and other areas into which new West Indies immigrants were settling. He gained widespread press coverage when, in the immediate aftermath of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, he made a speech outside Latimer Road tube station. Hamm served as Mosley's personal secretary during the later years of the UM and succeeded to the post upon the death of Alexander Raven Thomson in 1955. Like Mosley, he was an ardent supporter of Irish unity and encouraged his leader to campaign on that issue. Hamm stood as a UM candidate at the 1966 general election in the Birmingham Handsworth constituency and polled 4% of the vote. Mosley effectively withdrew from public life afterward, and the UM came under the leadership of Hamm and Robert Row, the last two paid UM activists. Mosley was officially UM leader until 1973, when he formally retired, and Hamm, who had become the effective leader, formally succeeded him. Under Hamm the party relaunched as the Action Party and under that name contested the 1973 Greater London Council elections without success. The party transformed itself into the Action Society in 1978 and gave up party politics to become a publishing house. Hamm published his autobiography, Action Replay, in 1983, and in 1988 his second book, The Evil Good Men Do. After Mosley's death in December 1980, Hamm published and edited a quarterly pro-Mosley magazine, Lodestar, which included contributions by Diana Mosley, Colin Wilson and Brocard Sewell. He died from Parkinson's disease in 1992. Elections contested References Bibliography Archives Papers of Edward Jeffrey Hamm are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. External links Papers of Jeffrey Hamm at the University of Birmingham. Jeffrey Hamm interview in 1989 about his political activity Friends of Oswald Mosley 1915 births 1992 deaths People from Ebbw Vale British autobiographers Welsh fascists British Army personnel of World War II Neurological disease deaths in the United Kingdom Deaths from Parkinson's disease Welsh politicians Welsh Roman Catholics People detained under Defence Regulation 18B Welsh emigrants to the Falkland Islands Converts to Roman Catholicism British Union of Fascists politicians Union Movement politicians Royal Tank Regiment soldiers Welsh military personnel