Conservative Party
Organization
Found in 923 Collections and/or Records:
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence and papers on Scottish policy., Dec 1949 - Nov 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/93
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Stuart (15); Iain MacLeod, [Head of Home Affairs] Conservative Research Department (2); Andrew Gibb; Sir Arthur Young, Scottish Unionist Whip (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); Henry Spence; Patrick Blair [Political Secretary to Chairman of Unionist Party in Scotland]; George Williamson, President, Scottish Unionist Association, on a visit by Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; John MacCormick, Chairman, Scottish...
Dates:
Dec 1949 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on the Conservative attitude towards and WSC meeting supporters of Atlantic Union [advocates of increased collaboration between the UK, Canada and the United States]., Dec 1950 - Jul 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/106
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Owen Roberts, President of the Atlantic Union Committee (2); Herbert Agar; Duncan Sandys; Charles Mott-Radclyffe; Edwin Leather (2); "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne]; Clarence Streit (2); Canadian Senators L Gouin and W Euler; US Senator Guy Gillette (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel] and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford]; CSC.Also...
Dates:
Dec 1950 - Jul 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence and papers on the devaluation of the pound and Britain's economic and trade position., Aug 1949 - Nov 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/91
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe] (2); Leo Amery; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley]; Sir Arthur Salter; Cuthbert Alport; Cedric Drewe [Deputy Chief Conservative Whip]; Stanley Walker, editor of the City Press. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow] and Elizabeth Gilliatt; Christopher Soames; Duncan Sandys; and from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Sir James Hawkey.Also...
Dates:
Aug 1949 - Nov 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on the movement towards a United Europe, C., Dec 1946 - Jun 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/25A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Duncan Sandys (6); Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher; Leo Amery (2); 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] on communism; Paul-Henri Spaak [Chairman of the International Council of the European Movement] (2); Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (16); Dr Joseph Retinger, Honorary Secretary General of the European Movement, inviting WSC to a cultural conference. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Lettice Marston [later Lettice...
Dates:
Dec 1946 - Jun 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on the movement towards a United Europe, D-G., Sep 1946 - Nov 1948
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/20A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Duncan Sandys (12); Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich, British Ambassador to France]; William Stewart; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (2) including (1) on him serving on the Council of the United Europe movement; Freda Smith [Sandys' secretary] (11); Colonel Oliver Stanley; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Head] of Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat [and Joint Director, Conservative Research Department]; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi on the...
Dates:
Sep 1946 - Nov 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on the movement towards a United Europe, K-R., May 1946 - Aug 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/22A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Freda Smith [Duncan Sandys' secretary] (10); Evelyn King resigning from the Executive Committee of the United Europe Movement; [William] Stephen King-Hall (7); Duncan Sandys (11); John Langford-Holt; 1st Lord Layton (2); 1st Lord Lindsay of Birker on the roles of Britain and the Soviet Union; Lewis Douglas [United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom] on a press conference by General George Marshall [Secretary of State, United States] (3); Randolph Churchill;...
Dates:
May 1946 - Aug 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C., Dec 1946 - Dec 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/53
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [George] Peter Thorneycroft; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (8); Colonel Patrick Blair, Political Secretary [to Chairman of Unionist Party in Scotland] (2); Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (2); Sir Arthur Young, Scottish Unionist Whip (2); 11th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Sir Lawrence Lumley]; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin], Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party, on...
Dates:
Dec 1946 - Dec 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence, C., Dec 1957 - Nov 1964
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/507
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Burke Trend, Cabinet Secretary, sending copies of official histories and proofs for comments (2); William Indoe, Private Secretary to Secretary of Cabinet, on a book by David Irving (2); [1st] Lord Ismay criticising Michael Foot's interpretation of World War II events; David Irving requesting permission to publish (3); Henry Brooke, Home Secretary, on the service of remembrance; Sir Llewellyn Woodward, historian; James Robertson of the Cabinet Office on the...
Dates:
Dec 1957 - Nov 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C-D., Dec 1948 - Dec 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/81A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Harley Usill of the Naldrett Press Limited (5); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (2); George Rainbird; John Leigh-Pemberton (3); Sir Oswald Birley; Beresford Craddock; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (13); Sir Arnold Gridley [Chairman 1922 Committee]; Sir David Maxwell Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir]; R A Butler (5); Thelma Cazalet-Kier (2);...
Dates:
Dec 1948 - Dec 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C-D., Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/95A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence], George [Hubback], Metropolitan of India and Bishop of Calcutta (3), and Desmond Crawley (High Commission, Calcutta), on Anglo-Indians educating their children in the UK; 1st Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson, Chairman] of the Carlton Club (2); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (5); Clifford Hood, President, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation; Robert...
Dates:
Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence concerning the organisation and activities of the Young Conservatives., Aug 1946 - Jul 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/16
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin], Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party (10); Anthony Nutting [Chairman: Young Conservative and Unionist Movement] (2); representatives of the Young Conservatives Central Committee including John Hay (4) and Frances Vale (4); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office (3); William van Straubenzee, Chairman, Three Area Young Conservative Hospitality Committee. Also...
Dates:
Aug 1946 - Jul 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-G., Nov 1950 - Nov 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/114A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office including George Christ and Press Officer Gillian Mackay (8); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (5); Somerset de Chair on subjects including his career, Abadan [Iran, earlier Persia], and the atomic bomb (2); Patrick Donner (3); William Douglas-Home on his political career (2); James Stuart on Douglas-Home; Michael Astor; David Eccles (2); 1st...
Dates:
Nov 1950 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D - G., 29 Sep 1951 - 19 Oct 1957
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/128A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Guy Schofield [Editor], Daily Mail (2); Joaquim Paco D'Arcos, Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on his lecture on WSC; John Dodge; Burnaby Drayson, on the effect on Europe had WSC stayed as Prime Minister after 1945 (2); Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party, and Prime Minister] (2); Sir Thomas Dugdale [later 1st Lord Crathorne, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] on the effect of the Rating and Valuation Bill on racecourses, and the National Farmers'...
Dates:
29 Sep 1951 - 19 Oct 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-H., May 1946 - Dec 1948
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/68A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] on Daily Express opinion polls; Sir William Darling (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); James Milner; [George] Peter Thorneycroft (2); Leo Amery on Dimitrov, President of the Bulgarian Agrarian Movement; representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Honorary Treasurer Christopher Holland-Martin, (9); Richard Stokes on Yugoslav General Djoukitch (2); Sir...
Dates:
May 1946 - Dec 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/54A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Prime Minister's salary (2); Nigel Davies on WSC's support for his candidacy at Epping [Essex]; Kenneth de Courcy; Rupert de la Bere on ex-service civil servants; Lord Pakenham [later 7th Lord Longford] (2); representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Mark Chapman-Walker and Sir Robert Cary (7); Irving Dix (United States Representative) on US political and economic affairs; James Stuart [Chief...
Dates:
Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-L., Nov 1945 - Dec 1946
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Terence Garvey (Foreign Office) on the case of George Dace; Percy Cudlipp, editor, Daily Herald, and Patrick Donner (2) requesting WSC to write for them; Sir Orme Sargent [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on Kenneth de Courcy; Sir Paul Booth on the "Dog and Duck" circle; Eric Gandar Dower on his constituency position (2); Robert Jenkins; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Head of Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat and Joint Director,...
Dates:
Nov 1945 - Dec 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence E-F (almost all material dates from 1950)., Nov 1946 - Dec 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/96A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); David Eccles (4); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; various representatives of the Conservative Research Department, including Peter Goldman (5); Walter Elliot on visiting Chaim Weizmann [President of Israel] and Scottish matters (2); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (4); Sir Malcolm Trustram...
Dates:
Nov 1946 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 268 and 273-4 which have been removed on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive personal information about a living individual until 1 January 2026.
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence E-G., Jun 1948 - Dec 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/82A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (9) on subjects including his tour of Canada and east Asia, Spanish matters, and the Indian constitution; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (5); Alfred Edwards; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); various other representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office including John Profumo (6); Walter Elliot (2); J Edgar Walker...
Dates:
Jun 1948 - Dec 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from and about Conservative Associations (including branches) and constituencies., Jan 1950 - Oct 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/104
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Nigel Colman, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office (8); various other representatives of Conservative Central Office including George Christ (8); George Odey; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (2); Rolf Dudley-Williams; Colonel Godfrey Llewellyn, Chairman of the...
Dates:
Jan 1950 - Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from Conservative Associations (including branches), constituencies, and Young Conservatives., Oct 1946 - Nov 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/13
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office (2); Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd; John Baker-White (2); Marjorie Maxse and James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] (5), Vice-Chairmen of Conservative and Unionist Party; C H Wethered, Agent and Secretary, Dover [Kent] Division Association (5); Sir George Harvie Watt; Captain Horace Rew, Chairman, Eastbourne [Sussex] Conservative Association, complaining about the seating...
Dates:
Oct 1946 - Nov 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from Conservative Associations (including branches), constituencies, clubs and Young Conservatives, A-D., Nov 1951 - Mar 1955
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/119A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Priscilla, Lady Tweedsmuir [earlier Lady Grant] (4); Major-General Donald Bateman, Secretary of the Association of Conservative Clubs (2); Alfred Bossom on a broadcast by WSC; Sir Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Lady Patricia Kingsbury, Honorary Secretary of the South Buckinghamshire Conservative Association (2); Allen Molesworth of the Cambridge University Conservative Association; Colonel Sir Godfrey Llewellyn,...
Dates:
Nov 1951 - Mar 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from Conservative Associations (including branches), constituencies, clubs and Young Conservatives, E-M., Feb 1950 - Apr 1955
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/120A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Taylor; various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office particularly Richard Greville (31); Sir Eric Errington, Chairman, Executive Committee, of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations (13); Colonel Patrick Blair, Political Secretary to Chairman of Unionist Party in Scotland; 1st Lord Glentoran [earlier Captain Herbert Dixon], President Ulster Unionist Council; Alan Gomme-Duncan; Christopher Soames; Joseph Godber...
Dates:
Feb 1950 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from Conservative Associations (including branches), constituencies, clubs and Young Conservatives, N-Z., Feb 1951 - Jan 1955
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/121A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Eric Errington, Chairman, Executive Committee, of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations (2); 1st Lord Teviot [earlier Charles Kerr], Chairman, Liberal National Organisation, supporting WSC; various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office particularly Richard Greville (25); representatives of the North Newcastle[-upon-Tyne] Conservative Association (5); 3rd Lord Ridley, Chairman of the New North Newcastle Conservative...
Dates:
Feb 1951 - Jan 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
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
File
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
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence G (mainly thanking WSC following the 1950 election)., Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/97
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Christ of Conservative and Unionist Central Office on British war debt; David Gammans on appealing to skilled craftsmen and colonial policy (2); Patrick Donner; Gwilym Lloyd George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; Eveline Hill; John Rodgers; Mervyn Wheatley; Cyril Osborne; Douglas Clifton Brown [later 1st Lord Ruffside, Speaker of the House of Commons]; [Robert] Thorp; "Hinch" [Lord Hinchingbrooke, later 10th Lord Sandwich and Victor Montagu]; Geoffrey Stevens;...
Dates:
Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open