Conservative Party
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence A-B., Mar 1934 - Dec 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/10
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams [MP for West Leeds] on speaking in WSC's constituency (3); George Tryon [later Lord Tryon, Minister of Pensions] on the liability for private treatment of a war injury; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association, on retaining two RAF corporals in service; Sir John Gilmour [Home Secretary] on a driving offence by one of WSC's constituents; Ralph Bury.Other subjects include: arranging visits to the Houses of Parliament;...
Dates:
Mar 1934 - Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence C-E., Jan 1934 - Nov 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/11
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2); Lord Esme Gordon-Lennox [Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain] on "whist drives" in the Houses of Parliament; Sir Isidore Salmon and Regina Evans, Joint Treasurers of Essex and Middlesex Conservative Associations, requesting funding.Other subjects include: Sarah Churchill [later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Lady Audley] opening a fete; pension, benefit, employment and legal...
Dates:
Jan 1934 - Nov 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency: North West Manchester., Dec 1905 - Jan 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 4/8
Scope and Contents
Material relating to WSC standing for election as Liberal candidate for Manchester. Includes correspondence with constituents concerning WSC's stance on various issues including: pharmacies, the Education Act and working conditions for teachers, vaccination, the identification of boxes manufactured abroad, railways, the registration of architects and accountants, female suffrage, Home Rule, Income Tax, temperance, taxation, Free Trade, shops, vivisection, and Chinese labour in South...
Dates:
Dec 1905 - Jan 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence about the general election., Aug 1951 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/10
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association (3); Oswald Silberrad. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Elizabeth Gilliatt, ?Richard Greville (Honorary Secretary), Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], "Jo" Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Chips Gemmell; [Prime Minister's Private Secretaries] Anthony Bevir and Edward Cass; CSC (President of Woodford Conservative Association); and from WSC to some of those...
Dates:
Aug 1951 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence, mainly with Wanstead and Woodford Borough Council., Mar 1950 - Nov 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/9A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: A McCarlie Findlay, Town Clerk and Solicitor of the Borough (59); [Percy] Cohen, [Joint Director] of the Conservative Research Department (3); J R Iles, Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Local Government and Planning (7); Sir James Hawkey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association [until 1952] (2); [?Richard] Adams of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government; [Peter] Hudson, Private Secretary [to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation] (3);...
Dates:
Mar 1950 - Nov 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A-J., Jan 1947 - Feb 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/46
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: M M Killeen, Private Secretary, Ministry of Pensions (4); Frederick Mummery, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (14); H J Backwell, Deputy, (11) and F E M Beatley, Regional Petroleum Officer, (4) Ministry of Fuel and Power; Frank Foster (2); constituent Howard Dickinson (8); [Herschel] Austin MP; [Jack] Beddoe, [Principal] Private Secretary [to the Minister of Health]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries...
Dates:
Jan 1947 - Feb 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 214-5 which have been removed on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive personal information about potentially living individuals until 1 January 2025.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: papers and correspondence for the general election., Apr 1955 - Jun 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/22A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, WSC's election agent (18); John Harvey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association (9); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, on a hoax letter from the "Conservative Propaganda Centre"; George Christ [Parliamentary Liaison Officer, Conservative Party, and Editor Weekly News Letter] (2); Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (2), (1) also from Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa...
Dates:
Apr 1955 - Jun 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party answers to election questionnaires., 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/124
Scope and Contents
Contains questions and answers prepared by Conservative and Unionist Central Office on a variety of election issues including: agricultural matters; animal welfare; various aspects of foreign affairs including China, Germany, Japan, Persia [Iran], South Africa, and Mexico; civil servants; education; housing matters; the health service; women; transport particularly by road; pensions; economic affairs including taxation; the constitutional position of Scotland and Wales.
Dates:
1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from members of the general public (mainly messages of support for WSC) and pressure groups at the time of the 1951 general election., Oct 1951 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/125
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Thelma Cazalet-Kier, Chairman of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee; Gertrude Turquand; [Frederick] Potter, Mayor of Deal [Kent] on receiving signed photographs of WSC; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Richard Baker, founder of the Men of the Trees, on their New Earth Charter. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries including Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford].Other subjects include: equal pay for women; foreign affairs including Egypt and...
Dates:
Oct 1951 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open