Brett (née Van de Weyer), Eleanor Frances Weston, Viscountess Esher (1862-1940)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1862 - 1940
Gender
- female
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence between Reginald and Eleanor Baliol Brett, 1878-02-20 - 1918-09-24
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 7/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection includes: Lord Esher's journals; general, political, royal, personal and literary correspondence; political papers, particularly on army reform and India; literary papers; press cuttings.
Dates:
1878-02-20 - 1918-09-24
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary, 1914-06-14 - 1919-07-19
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/1
Scope and Contents
Eleanor Brett kept a typescript entry for most days, ranging in length from a single line to a paragraph, sometimes reproducing extracts from letters, telegrams, and newspaper articles. She appears to have written her diary retrospectively. Interspersed throughout are short anecdotes from soldiers about their military experiences and character profiles of politicians, diplomats, journalists, nurses, artists, and other individuals she meets through her and her husband’s work.
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Dates:
1914-06-14 - 1919-07-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Eleanor Brett, Viscountess Esher, 1914 - 1920
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection includes: Lord Esher's journals; general, political, royal, personal and literary correspondence; political papers, particularly on army reform and India; literary papers; press cuttings.
Dates:
1914 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1914-06-28 - 1914-12-31
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/2
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook documents how Eleanor spent the first year of the First World War. It begins as Eleanor recounts hearing about the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, from Prince Louis of Battenberg who sat at the next table to her and her family at the Savoy on 28 June 1914. During 1914, Eleanor re-commenced the running of First Aid classes aimed at elite women, which she ran from the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, with St John’s Ambulance. In September 1914, her...
Dates:
1914-06-28 - 1914-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1915-01-01 - 1915-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/3
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook opens with a description of Eleanor visiting the French Front, dining in Compiegne and being given a tour of a hospital based in Chateau Sainte-Annel. The Eshers travelled back to London where she continued her work running First Aid classes at the Duke of York’s Headquarters in between seeing Sylvia [daughter], Zena [daughter-in-law], and their families and swallowing a chicken bone where she ‘thought my last moment had come’. Eleanor returned to Paris, where she comments on...
Dates:
1915-01-01 - 1915-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1916-01-01 - 1916-09-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/4
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook opens with a poster ‘Taisez-Vous! Méfiez-Vous! Les Oreilles Enemies Vous Écoutent’ (translated as Shut up! Beware! Enemy Ears Are Listening To You) which Eleanor captions: ‘This notice was put up in all rail way carriages, trams, public buildings of all kinds in France’, as well as a list of battles which began in 1916. During this year, Eleanor was invited to Buckingham Palace to receive a Red Cross from the King for her First Aid Training work. She continues recording her and...
Dates:
1916-01-01 - 1916-09-14
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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