negotiations, as well as the dozens of experts that were part of the American delegation. According to Beer, American experts tried to give ideas to the French who would pass them onto the British in the hopes that the British brought them to Wilson. At one point during the negotiation, Wilson left it to Beer and Edward House to negotiate on his behalf. Permanent Mandates Commission Sir Eric Drummond, the first Secretary General of the League of Nations, appointed Beer as the head of the Mandates Section of the League of Nations's permanent secretariat. Due to Beer's absence, much of the work in the mandates section was done by Philip Noel-Baker instead. The George Louis Beer Prize Beer left a bequest to establish a prize recognizing outstanding historical writing relating to European international history since 1895. American citizens or permanent residents are eligible, for books published in the year preceding the award. The George Louis Beer Prize has been awarded in most years since 1923. Bibliography The Commercial Policy of England Toward the American Colonies (1893) full text online. British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765 (1907) full text online. Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660 (1908) full text online. The Old Colonial System, 1660-1754 (2 vols., 1912) full text online. The English Speaking Peoples: Their Future Relations and Joint International Obligations (1917) full text online. African Questions at the Paris Peace Conference (1923) full text online. Coclanis, Peter A. "George L. Beer." In Clyde Norman Wilson (ed.), American Historians, 1866-1912. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 47. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. Literature Resource Center. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. Schuyler, Robert Livingston. "Beer, George Louis." In Allen Johnson et al. (eds.), Dictionary of American Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936). Personal life Beer married Edith Hellman on November 11, 1896. She was the niece of one of his early mentors at Columbia, E. R. A. Seligman, who had also married Beer's sister. Beer and his wife had one daughter, and the marriage lasted until Beer's untimely death on March 15, 1920. See also Historiography of the British Empire References 1872 births 1920 deaths American historians Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia University faculty