Conservative Party
Organization
Found in 923 Collections and/or Records:
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence A-B., Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/43
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Norman Angell requesting WSC make a speech; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (4).Subjects include: international affairs, particularly Japanese actions in China, the Spanish Civil War and campaigns for world peace; a local sewage matter; employment and property queries; animal rights; a potential refugee from persecution in Germany; requests for support from local groups; pension and road transport policy; general...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence A-B., 02 Jan 1939 - 25 Jul 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/53
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Rowland Arnison (4); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (5); H Reginald Beck (4); A M Bex (4); C S Ketchen (4).Subjects include: a conscription query from a constituent; the local Canning & Food Industries Club and Dairy & Ice Cream Equipment Club; local sewerage rates; the marking of imports from Axis countries; criticism by local Conservatives of WSC's "Neglect of Constituency"; protests about London transport fares;...
Dates:
02 Jan 1939 - 25 Jul 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence A-C., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/16A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams [MP for West Leeds, Yorkshire] on an engagement in WSC's constituency; R A Butler [MP for Saffron Walden, Essex] inviting WSC to a visit by Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Thomas Buxton, President of the Waltham Abbey [Essex] Branch [of Epping Division Conservative Association] on his lack of political confidence in WSC (4); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (4); Richard Colvin congratulating WSC on...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence C., Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/44
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Clifford Heyworth, Clerk to Chingford [Essex] Council (7); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (3).Subjects include: local playing fields; equipment for ARP firemen; requests for support from local groups; Chingford becoming a Chartered Borough; the case of a constituent convicted of procuring abortion; the site of Chingford High School; animal rights; local bus services; local electricity supply; road transport licence fees;...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence C-D., Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/26
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Clifford Heyworth, Clerk to Chingford [Essex] Council (4); H Harrison, Accountant to Chingford Council (5); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (3); Gwendoline Colvin on the death of her husband, Sir Richard Colvin [Lord Lieutenant of Essex]; A Rutledge Crouch on a copy of his painting of the Coronation Chair (5); Patrick Donner [MP for North-West Hampshire] on speaking in WSC's constituency.Other subjects include: tax...
Dates:
Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence C-D., Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/36
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (4); Clifford Heyworth, Clerk to Chingford [Essex] Council; [Ernest] Wriothesley Denny and John Maitland on selecting a candidate for the South Norfolk Division .Other subjects include: a visit to the constituency by Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Gloucester and Ramsay MacDonald; animal rights; the National Anthem; international affairs, particularly the bombing of civilians in...
Dates:
Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
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, Epping [Essex]: correspondence D-G., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/17A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (3); Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] on WSC writing the forward of a book on Income Tax by one of his constituents; Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association] (4) on subjects including constituency opinion on WSC's stance, particularly over India (2).Other subjects include: a statement by WSC on the behaviour of "Socialists"...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence E., Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/27
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Elliston [MP for Blackburn, Lancashire] on speaking in WSC's constituency; B Hiscott [Clerk to Epping Council] (4).Other subjects include: equal job opportunities for women; requests for WSC to become patron of local groups; Sunday trading; local transport matters; licensing laws; a pension query from a constituent; farming issues; general constituency business.Also includes: a map of the Epping area indicating the position of a crossing over a railway line.
Dates:
Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence E-G., Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/37
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association; E Rawden Smith, Public Relations Officer of the London Passenger Transport Board (4); Lord Roche on WSC speaking to the East Anglian Society of London.Other subjects include: the Marriage Bill; a pension query by a constituent; the National Defence Contribution tax; air raid precautions; local transport issues; donations to local groups; a request for WSC to recommend a constituent for an...
Dates:
Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence F-G., Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/28
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2).Other subjects include: requests for WSC to become patron of local groups; licensing laws; the Football Pools Bill; official recognition of the National Union of Postmen; employment queries from constituents; rating issues; international affairs, particularly sanctions against Italy for its invasion of Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and support for the League of Nations; farming issues; a proposed...
Dates:
Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence F-H., Jan 1934 - Dec 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/12A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association, (57) on subjects including Indian affairs (6); Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association] (3); Ralph Bury (2).Other subjects include: betting; greyhound racing; civil liberties; sewage; pension, benefit and employment queries from constituents; the possible retirement of Goschen as Constituency Chairman; the retirement of "Lord Lymington" [Gerard Wallop, later...
Dates:
Jan 1934 - Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Go-Gu., 10 Oct 1940 - 23 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/75A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association]; Mrs S Gould (7); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (7).Subjects include: reparations to Jews; loss of SS Almeda Star; Conservative Central Office guidance to candidates in the 1945 General Election on opticians; Women's Land Army; bomb damage repair and rehousing; war widows' pensions; land reclamation for agriculture;...
Dates:
10 Oct 1940 - 23 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/18A-B
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Correspondents include: Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of Transport, on a rail accident at Wormley [Hertfordshire] (2); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (31); Cecil Pike [MP for Attercliffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire] and Robert Hudson [MP for Whitehaven Division of Cumberland] on speaking in WSC's constituency; Sir Kingsley Wood [Minister of Health] on local housing and health provision.Other subjects include: constituency opinion on WSC's stance over...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H., Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/29
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (26); Sir Kingsley Wood [Minister of Health] on a housing scheme at Chigwell [Essex]; Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping District Conservative Association] on resigning as Chairman; John Maitland requesting WSC become Vice-President of Loughton [Essex] Chamber of Trade; Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, President of the ex-Services Welfare Society, on a charitable appeal.Other subjects include: tax on...
Dates:
Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H., Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/46
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (19).Subjects include: proportional representation; local commerce; Felsted Grammar School [Essex]; constituency feeling towards WSC following the Munich [Germany] Crisis; founding a British Institute of Photographic Propaganda; general constituency business.Also includes: copy letters from WSC to Hawkey outlining his position on British foreign policy and the National Government; letters to...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H-J., Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/38A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford [Essex] (22); C Hilton (7) and Sir Victor Warrender [later 1st Lord Bruntisfield, Financial Secretary] (War Office) (3) on Hilton's case for compensation for a work-related health problem; Sir John Jackson on John Maitland being chosen as Conservative candidate for Chorley [Lancashire].Other subjects include: co-operation with Germany; Palestine; the use of...
Dates:
Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H-J., 03 Jun 1938 - 09 Oct 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/56A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Lieutenant J E G Halsey (4); Brendan Bracken; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (12); Sir John Anderson [Lord Privy Seal, later 1st Lord Waverley] on ARP Controllers and London Regional Commissioners (3); Walter Elliot [Minister of Health]; H E Hounsell (5).Subjects include: Conservative Central Office undermining WSC in Epping; Supplementary Reserve and Territorial Army commissions; air raid shelters; munitions profiteering;...
Dates:
03 Jun 1938 - 09 Oct 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence I-K., Dec 1935 - Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/30
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2); Colin Thornton-Kemsley and his private secretary, Joan Wilkinson (4).Other subjects include: international affairs, particularly the Italian invasion of Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and the League of Nations; civil service matters; pensions for ex-servicemen; the North Charterland [Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia] Company Public Enquiry; employment and pension queries from constituents; a request...
Dates:
Dec 1935 - Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence I-L., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2); Mary, Lady Lloyd [widow of Sir Francis Lloyd] and Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] supporting WSC's election campaign.Other subjects include: capital punishment; the Civil Service; post office matters; European rearmament; pensions; equal pay for women; animal welfare; the duty on industrial oils; the brick industry; donating to local causes; WSC's support for the National...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence I-L., Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/47A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (9); Sir Samuel Hoare [Home Secretary] on a constituent's complaint of police inaction at a political meeting.Other subjects include: a device for ARP; WSC's position in relation to his constituency party; pension and employment queries from constituents; a dispute between Messrs. Leslie and Godwin Ltd. and the Guild of Insurance Officials and other insurance matters; international affairs,...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence I-P., Jan 1934 - Dec 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/13A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (5); Neville Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on duty due on motor tricycles; Charles McCurdy introducing WSC to a speaker; John Maitland inviting WSC to the Loughton [Essex] Cricket Club Annual Dinner; Roy Harrod on monetary reform (2).Other subjects include: regulating journalism; providing a post office for Wanstead [Essex]; medical provision; birth control; immigration and...
Dates:
Jan 1934 - Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence K-N., Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/39
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Colin Thornton-Kemsley recommending a book by a friend; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2); John Maitland on being selected as Conservative candidate for Chorley [Lancashire]; Sir Thomas Miller-Jones thanking WSC and CSC for their telegram on his knighthood.Other subjects include: pension, benefit, dismissal, employment and business queries from constituents; the Shops Bill; international affairs, particularly the Spanish...
Dates:
Jan 1937 - Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence L-N., Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/31
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: E A Newton, Honorary Secretary of North Chingford [Essex] Branch of the League of Nations Union (6); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (3); Herbert Williams on the coal industry; [John] Walton Newbold.Other subjects include: local housing matters; international affairs, particularly Germany, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and the League of Nations; aerial warfare; rating issues; a local transport matter; prison...
Dates:
Jan 1936 - Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence M-O., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/20
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: John Maitland on naval matters; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of the Epping Division Conservative Association (2); [John] Walton Newbold supporting WSC's stand on European rearmament and foreign affairs.Other subjects include: herbal medicine; equal pay for women; local transport issues; male unemployment; Abyssinia [Ethiopia]; divorce law; noise pollution; telephone and electricity provision; employment and pension queries from constituents; constituency opinion on...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.