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Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

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Literary: correspondence on publishing WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), mainly with representatives of Time-Life International, including Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine], Walter Graebner [London representative], Andrew Heiskell [publisher], Monica Owen Horne, Constance Babbington-Smith, and Renee Harmer., Aug 1945 - Jan 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/15A-C
Scope and Contents Other correspondents include: Henry Laughlin [President of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers] (2); William Edwards, [Assistant Director] Federation of British Industries; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Chips Gemmell, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Grace Hamblin, Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Anne Hipwell, and...
Dates: Aug 1945 - Jan 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family: biographical material and information file., 1891 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/38A-B
Scope and Contents Includes details of WSC's filing system, broadcasts, speeches, favourite songs, agricultural patronage, books, orders and decorations, honorary degrees, fellowships, freedoms, medals, ministerial appointments, service titles, degrees offered but not yet received, parliamentary seats, paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy [London], and annual subscriptions; copies of various items by WSC including a letter to the Times under the pseudonym "Scorpio" on prayers for rain, and a lecture...
Dates: 1891 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, C - D., 15 Apr 1951 - 16 Dec 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/76A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (17); Peter Hudson, Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport (5); [Margaret] Barbara Sloman [Assistant Principal], Treasury; Stuart Mallinson; Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War; Arthur Hockaday, Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty; Stuart Gilbert, Private Secretary to the Minister of...
Dates: 15 Apr 1951 - 16 Dec 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open, except for folios 199 - 203 and 269 - 273, closed for 75 years until 2029, and folios 79 - 83, closed for 100 years until 2054, on grounds of data protection due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on potentially living individuals.
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence: Equine Defence League - Exmouth., Jun 1955 - Nov 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/554
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Alfred Brisco, Secretary of the National Equine and Smaller Animals Defence League (3); Colonel Sir John Ruggles-Brise and Sir Stuart Mallinson (11) on WSC's support for the foundation of the University of Essex; Nicholas Fenn [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary], Thomas Bridges [Private Secretary to...
Dates: Jun 1955 - Nov 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts F-I., 1883 - Dec 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/401A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Maria Floris (3); Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited; Dorothy Foot; Oswald Frewen; Louis Golding; Victor Gollancz; Colonel Maurice Grant (3); David Green (4); Amy Guest; John Gunther; 2nd Lord Haig [earlier Lord Dawick]; Hamish Hamilton, Managing Director of Hamish Hamilton Limited; Sir Roy Harrod; Herbert Haseltine (4); Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Lionel Horton-Smith; Henry Laughlin, Houghton...
Dates: 1883 - Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Knight of the Garter (installation): congratulations., 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/469
Scope and Contents Correspondents (congratulating WSC on his installation as a Knight of the Garter) include: Sir George Bellew, Garter Principal King of Arms; [Lord] Ivor [Guest]; Antonio Giraudier; Hadj Thami El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakesh [Morocco]; James Greenwood; "Betty", Lady Hastings; Anne, Lady Islington; and Harold Soper (4) regarding WSC's garter plate.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; a photograph of WSC in garter robes; newspaper cuttings (including...
Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Cincinnati - Czechoslovak Legionaries., Jan 1952 - Dec 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/549A-B
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Francis Hatch, President General of the Society of the Cincinnati on WSC's descent from Lieutenant Reuben Murray (through Lady Randolph Churchill) (3); Sir Irving Gane on WSC's admission to the freedom of the City of London; Kenneth Post, Director of the Civic Trust; R Osborne, Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service...
Dates: Jan 1952 - Dec 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, Bristol University., Jun 1954 - Nov 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/542
Scope and Contents Correspondents from representatives of Bristol University to WSC [Chancellor of Bristol University] include: Sir Philip Morris, Vice Chancellor, on subjects including the use of WSC's coat of arms at Churchill Hall, the visit by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a gift from the Sir Winston Churchill Birthday trust, the conferment of honorary degrees, WSC's visit to the University in 1954 and a portrait of WSC (20); Alan Reynolds, Warden of Churchill Hall (5); James Orr, Private Secretary to...
Dates: Jun 1954 - Nov 1957
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, Chingford - Churchill., Jan 1956 - Mar 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/548A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents concerning honours to be given to WSC, or tributes made to him or requesting support from WSC include: [John] Steven Watson, Censor of Christ Church College, Oxford; Henry Hayward, Chief of London News Bureau, the Christian Science Monitor (4); [9th Lord] Howard de Walden and John Graham, Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary on the Churchill Club of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Gilbert Cohen, Chairman of the House Committee, Churchill Court (Sevenoaks, Kent); Mary Soames...
Dates: Jan 1956 - Mar 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, D., Feb 1956 - Nov 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/550
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Thomas Bridges [Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary] (2); "Bill", Sir [Cyril] Berkeley Ormond, Director of Public Relations at British Information Services on a donation from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (4); Sir John Colville and Major General "Jack" Hamilton, Bursar of Churchill College, Cambridge on the...
Dates: Feb 1956 - Nov 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, L -M., Jul 1956 - Nov 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/558A-B
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Major C Petit of the Association of Lancastria Survivors (8); Sir John Smyth on representing WSC at a ceremony organised by the Association of Lancastria Survivors; Antony Acland [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary] and [Adrian] Ian Samuel [Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary] on a Libyan...
Dates: Jul 1956 - Nov 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, RAF Benevolent Association - Royal Society of St George., Mar 1957 - Jan 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/562A-B
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: representatives of the RAF Benevolent Fund including Air Marshal Sir John Whitley (4), "Edgy " [2nd Lord] Knollys (3) and Air Vice Marshal Sir John Cordingley (6); Air Commodore Denis Spotswood of the RAF College at Cranwell [Lincolnshire]; representatives of the RAF Reserve Club including Sir Miles Thomas, President,...
Dates: Mar 1957 - Jan 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open except for folios 141-143 which are closed until 2024 as they relate to the honours process.
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, Royal Thames Yacht Club - Smuts., Sep 1956 - Feb 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/563A-B
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Lieutenant-Colonel A Odling-Smee of the Royal Western Yacht Club of England (4); George Ward, Secretary of State for Air, on an RAF church; Edgar Lawley, Chairman of the St Mary's Hospital appeal; Clement Harman, Lord Mayor of London, and Walter Matthews, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral on an appeal for the Cathedral;...
Dates: Sep 1956 - Feb 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Honorary American Citizen., Jul 1962 - Mar 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/539A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents concerning WSC being made an honorary citizen of the United States and of several other states include: John Wyndham [later 1st Lord Egremont] and Sir Philip Zulueta, Private Secretaries to Prime Minister (6) with advice on the opinions of Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], Prime Minister; United States senators including Jennings Randolph, Ralph Yarborough (4) and Sam Klaver; United States congressmen including Frances Bolton, William Colmer, Claude Pepper, Frank...
Dates: Jul 1962 - Mar 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, E-G., Jan 1943 - Jan 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/465
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Charles Eade [editor] of the Sunday Dispatch and Leslie Graham-Dixon thanking WSC for gifts of his books; Admiral Sir Edward Evans [later 1st Lord Mountevans] sending a book for WSC; General Dwight Eisenhower (2) on receiving a picture of WSC and WSC's illness; James Forrestal [Under Secretary of the United States Navy] on WSC's recovery; "B B" [Brendan Bracken] on "Lee's Lieutenants" by Douglas Freeman; Arthur Grenfell on early flying experiences with WSC; Sir Edward...
Dates: Jan 1943 - Jan 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Baruch - Beaverbrook., Jul 1951 - Jan 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/519A-C
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: "Bernie" [Bernard Baruch] on various subjects including arrangements to meet WSC, disarmament, the Cold War and atomic weapons, NATO, requests to publish excerpts from letters from WSC, racehorses and his memoirs (36); Donald Logan, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary, on a gift from Baruch; William Buckley of Henry Holt and Company Incorporated on Baruch's memoirs; [6th Lord] Bath [earlier Lord Weymouth] on items for his Churchill museum (4); Christofor,...
Dates: Jul 1951 - Jan 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Metz, Luxembourg, Paris (July 1946)., Sep 1944 - 12 Feb 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/237
Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's visit to France and Luxembourg include: Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (2); Andrew Clasen, Luxembourg Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, on subjects including arrangements for the visit, and requests for photographs of WSC (8); [?] Ethel, Lady Cotton; Robert Schuman, French Minister of Finance; Sir [David] Rowland Evans, General Secretary, Liberal National Organization; Louis Vallon, Director, Paris Mint, on medallions for WSC; Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord...
Dates: Sep 1944 - 12 Feb 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: the Netherlands (May 1946): newspapers, press reports., 08 May 1946 - 17 May 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/236
Scope and Contents Includes: reports from the British and Dutch press on WSC's visit; texts of speeches by individuals including Berend Escher, Rector of Leyden University, on WSC receiving an honorary doctorate (10 May 1946), Baron Willem Lodewijk de vos van Steenwijk, Chairman, Upper House of the Parliament of the Netherlands, on WSC's visit to the States-General [the Hague, 9 May], Professor Rudolf Cleveringa, Leyden University (10 May) and Alderman W Schokking on WSC's visit to Amsterdam, and Amsterdam's...
Dates: 08 May 1946 - 17 May 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open