Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer, Lord, 1849-1895 (politician)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1849 - 1895
Admin / Family structure
Son of 7th Duke of Marlborough and father of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
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15 letters from Lord Randolph Churchill to Oscar Browning, 1885 - 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/OB/1/345/C
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the files contain five or more letters. Some files include letters from more than one member of a family, and the larger correspondences occupy two or more files.
Dates:
1885 - 1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
For access conditions see the Archive Centre pages of the King's College Cambridge website.
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Acquired Papers. Letters from Lady Randolph Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill. Includes material relating to Lady Randolph Churchill's illness with typhoid. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described and several letters are incomplete., 1882 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/98
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This class of papers was acquired by WSC at various times either by inheritance or gift and has been arranged in groups according to the presumed original owner: Lady Randolph Churchill; Lord Randolph Churchill; John S Churchill; W Bernau of Lloyds Bank and others.The major groups may be broken into sub-series by correspondents and the papers thereafter are arranged chronologically (e.g. Lady Randolph Churchill's letters from WSC are mainly found at CHAR 28/13-28).The series includes a...
Dates:
1882 - 1885
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Album of enlarged reproductions of National Liberal cartoons, 1886 - 1887
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHWL/PE 42 (box 45)
Scope and Contents
Cartoons by W E Morgan and others, on Lord Randolph Churchill's political career.
Dates:
1886 - 1887
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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Copy of a Magpie political cartoon of Lord Randolph Churchill being rescued during the Aston Riots, 1884-10-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 111
Scope and Contents
By Allen McDougall, plus a letter describing the event
Dates:
1884-10-18
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
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Letter from James Corry to Lord Randolph Churchill, 31 July 1877
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9271/4/108
Scope and Contents
He has sounded out Mayor of Belfast; if Marlborough offered him an honour, Mayor would not refuse it; he has been 'a steady and active friend to party not only in Belfast but neighbouring counties.'
Dates:
31 July 1877
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, 1878 (Circa, undated)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9271/4/104
Scope and Contents
Report of Bentinck's views: Bentinck thinks Marlborough was deliberately snubbed on University question; Beaconsfield's conduct was similar to that in Connaught matter; if Marlborough did not resign, he was likely to be dismissed in autumn; no successor would be appointed until after Duke of Connaught's wedding; if Marlborough resigned, his position in Ireland and England would be perfectly intelligible
Dates:
1878 (Circa, undated)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters from Lord Randolph Churchill, mainly to John S Churchill [known as "Jack"], 1886 - 1894
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCHL 2
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered include: Lord Randolph's gift to his son of a watch; Jack Churchill's reports from Harrow; Lady Randolph Churchill's hurt that Jack did not write more often; Lord Randolph's concern that he was wasting too much time in holidays; arrangements for visiting him at Harrow; Winston Churchill's success in riding at Sandhurst, following his training at Knightsbridge cavalry barracks; Jack's name being put down for the 60th Rifles; a successful political meeting at Bradford...
Dates:
1886 - 1894
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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Letters to Mary Jeune, 1885 - 1893
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/3
Scope and Contents
Letters to Mary Jeune [earlier Mary Stanley, later Lady St Helier] and also to Francis Jeune [later 1st Lord St Helier], from: Joseph Chamberlain, sympathising with her on an accident, on the importance of the forthcoming General Election, 1885, and his depression about the amount of speaking involved and the improved health and forthcoming marriage of Sir Charles Dilke; Lord Randolph Churchill on subjects including his sudden departure abroad following his break with the Conservatives,...
Dates:
1885 - 1893
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Digital copies of CSCT 1 are available, while CSCT 5/1-10 are available online (see the individual sections for more information).
Fonds
Lord Randolph Churchill: 12 letters to Charles Milthorp
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9460
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Charles Henry Milthorp of Bradford, on local political matters, 'heresy' of bimetallism and other political subjects, condolences, etc.
Dates:
1893-1894
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill and contemporaries
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 16
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Subjects covered include: WSC's escape from captivity during the South African War; election campaigns; reviews and illustrations for WSC's writing; WSC's parents, Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill.
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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Lord Randolph Churchill: caricatures
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 17
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Subjects covered include: WSC's escape from captivity during the South African War; election campaigns; reviews and illustrations for WSC's writing; WSC's parents, Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Lord Randolph Churchill: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9248
Scope and Contents
Political and personal correspondence, including letters from most leading political figures of the time, Joseph Chamberlain, the Lord Justice Gerald Fitzgibbon, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. The correspondence with Gerald Fitzgibbon sheds much light on Churchill's own career. Comprises letters written to Churchill by political and personal associates, and copies of letters written by him, covering the period 1870 - 1895,...
Dates:
1870-1894
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Lord Randolph Churchill: press-cuttings on Egypt and the Sudan
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 18
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Subjects covered include: WSC's escape from captivity during the South African War; election campaigns; reviews and illustrations for WSC's writing; WSC's parents, Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Lord Randolph Churchill: sheet of sketches drawn at a sitting of the Royal Commission on Naval and Military Administration, Nov. 1888
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8856/115
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Dates:
Nov. 1888
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Mortgages etc, 1877 - 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCHL 9/1
Scope and Contents
Mainly mortgages taken out by Lord Randolph Churchill, with some papers on Lord Randolph's share dealing, papers relating to the will of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, and John S Churchill's (Jack Churchill)'s marriage settlement.
Dates:
1877 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Papers relating to Lord Randolph Churchill, 1857 - 1966
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW III
Scope and Contents
Includes political cartoons, photographs of Lord Randolph, notes from his 1886 Budget and the Seals of Office and Patent appointing him Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland.
Dates:
1857 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Broadwater Collection
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - L., 16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/41
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Spencer-Churchill, on subjects including WSC's writing and the political situation (3); Lady Caroline Spencer-Churchill; Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill; CSC on subjects including WSC's holiday at Lake Como [Italy], his painting, Chartwell [Kent], Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames], and the Council of Foreign Ministers (18); Horatia Seymour; Mary Churchill on her posting to Britain; John S Churchill (3); Pamela Digby [earlier Pamela Churchill, later Pamela...
Dates:
16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Photographs and drawings for the official biography, 1874-08 - 1900-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 9/1/24
Scope and Contents
Photographs for Volume I of the official biography, "Winston S Churchill" by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert (not all used): coloured print of John, Duke of Marlborough; ? Leonard Jerome and Clara Jerome; Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill on their engagement, 1874; Lady Randolph in riding habit with whip, Ireland, c 1877; Lord Randolph in fur coat, c 1884; WSC's prep school, Brighton [Sussex], during the Golden Jubilee, 1887; Lady Randolph, 1888-89; WSC in a school group at Mr...
Dates:
1874-08 - 1900-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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Photographs of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill and of Winston Churchill as a child, 1871 - 1970-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 6/2/6
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Lady Randolph [earlier Jennie Jerome], including with her sisters, with her sons, with the executive committee of the hospital ship Maine during the Boer War, with the composer Sir [Charles] Hubert Parry, and on her marriage to George Cornwallis-West; Lord Randolph Churchill as a child, young man and in later years; Leonard Jerome; Winston Churchill as a small boy, including with his mother and brother John "Jack" Churchill, in a sailor suit, with his aunt Leonie Leslie...
Dates:
1871 - 1970-08
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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Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, C-D. [please note the majority of the file dates from 1943]., Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/472A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [2nd] Lord Chaplin sending brandy; Sylvia Checkley sending birthday wishes and flowers (5); [1st] Lord Davidson on an appeal fund for Wilson Carlisle, founder of the Church Army (2); Major-General [Charles] Constantine on meeting WSC and receiving a signed photograph from him; Captain A M Dick requesting an autographed photograph (4); [Bernard] Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Information] and [James] Drawbell on Drawbell's book "All Change Here"....
Dates:
Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, L., Apr 1952 - May 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/527A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Lord Lambton; Patrick de Laszlo; Henry Laughlin on subjects including an exhibition of WSC's paintings (4); Vivien Leigh [later Vivien, Lady Olivier]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd] on WSC signing a book for the Aga Khan (4); Sir Shane Leslie (2); [1st] Lord Tenby [earlier Gwilym Lloyd George]; Henry Cabot Lodge, United States representative to the United Nations; "Edie" [Edith, Lady] Londonderry (4); [7th Lord] Lonsdale [earlier Lord Lowther]; Henry Luce;...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - May 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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"Reflections on WSC's position and prospects as based upon his Father's life", 1923
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/23
Scope and Contents
Paper written by Churchill's aunt, Cornelia, Lady Wimborne, on his character and political future, and her memories of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, and the beginning of the Primrose League. Also includes a letter from Churchill to Lady Wimborne (not sent) on how her son, 1st Lord Wimborne [earlier Ivor Guest] had dropped out of politics after the war, defending himself for not securing Lord Wimborne a political position and explaining his hurt at the breach between them.
Dates:
1923
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Digital copies of CSCT 1 are available, while CSCT 5/1-10 are available online (see the individual sections for more information).
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Scrapbook of presscuttings, letters, cards and sketches on Lord Randolph Churchill, Lady Randolph Churchill and WSC, 1803 - 1944
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 10
Scope and Contents
Includes some loose papers and photographs.
Dates:
1803 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
The Papers of the 7th Duke of Marlborough
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MARB
Scope and Contents
Letters to both the Duke and Frances, Duchess of Marlborough from their third son, Lord Randolph Churchill and other family letters.
Dates:
1863 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Typed copy of a letter from Lady Randolph Churchill to "Snippy", Leonie, Lady Leslie about the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill, 1886
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Subjects covered by the material in this section include: Chartwell; Russia and CSC's visit in 1945; work in WSC's Essex constituency, Wanstead and Woodford; and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Digital copies of CSCT 1 are available, while CSCT 5/1-10 are available online (see the individual sections for more information).