Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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Personal: Business correspondence., Oct 1945 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/17A-B
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Correspondents include: John S Churchill (2); Sir William Rootes on a chauffeur for WSC; representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Few [WSC's solicitors] (14); representatives of Concrete Limited on work on the pump house at Chartwell [Kent] (4); Clement Penruddock, Secretary, Chequers Trust; Sir Kenneth Clark (2), Jacob Epstein, and Oliver Locker-Lampson (2) on WSC sitting for an Epstein bust; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (3); representatives of Knight, Frank and...
Dates:
Oct 1945 - Dec 1946
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, A-C, especially cigars., Dec 1940 - Aug 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/434
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Correspondents include: [3rd] Lord Rothschild of MI5 (8), Sir Norman Kendal [Assistant Commissioner], New Scotland Yard (2), Senior Official Analyst to the Home Office Roche Lynch (2), Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes, British Minister at Havana, Cuba (4), [John] Balfour (3) and [Cecil] King of the Foreign Office, and [1st] Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] on cigars and the possibility of them being poisoned; Sir Henry French, [Secretary] Ministry of Food,...
Dates:
Dec 1940 - Aug 1942
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, C-H., Mar 1941 - Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/457
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Correspondents include: [Sir] George Ogilvie-Forbes, [British Minister at] Havana, Cuba, on a carved wooden bust and album from the province of Camaguey; [4th] Lord Harlech [earlier Sir William Ormsby-Gore, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Union of South Africa] sending on an album on South Africa; Hugh Dalton sending on a book "What have we to defend?"; Dr [Herbert] Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs; Bradda Field sending her book "Miledi"; [Claude] Ledger, HM...
Dates:
Mar 1941 - Dec 1942
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, P-Z. [most of file dates from 1942]., Jun 1941 - Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/459
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Correspondents include: Guy Millard of the Foreign Office on the proposed gift of a bronze model of George Washington by Marochetti through Sir George Franckenstein and a tea cosy from Madame Zelalic (2); Sir Louis Greig [Personal Air Secretary to Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso] on the gift of a model aircraft from Polish airmen (2); [Frederick] Root [Private Secretary to the Minster of Works] on [1st] Lord Reith making a medallion of [John, 1st] Duke of Marlborough into a...
Dates:
Jun 1941 - Apr 1945
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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
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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
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Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, H-J., Nov 1942 - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/474
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Correspondents include: [Angus] Malcolm of the Foreign Office on reducing the flow of gifts from the United States; Norman Holden sending champagne; [Albert] Hunt sending a print of [John, 1st] Duke of Marlborough; Lord Robert Innes-Ker sending salmon; Lucie James (4) and [William] Honey, [Keeper, Ceramics Department], Victoria and Albert Museum, on plates sent by James to WSC and President [Franklin] Roosevelt; Archibald Joyce on dedicating a "Victory" waltz to WSC; [Lancelot] Joynson-Hicks...
Dates:
Nov 1942 - Dec 1943
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Antonio Giraudier., 08 Nov 1947 - 30 Mar 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/159
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Letters from Antonio Giraudier on his gifts to WSC, of cigars, wine, painting equipment and food parcels for London hospitals, WSC's painting, and on WSC's gifts to him, of books and a picture (49).Other correspondents include: Eleonora Mackenzie, British Legation, Cuba, on sending Giraudier's cigars (12); CSC on the hospital food parcels (3); G Ceris Jones, Matron, Westminster Hospital [London] on the food parcels; Elizabeth Cockayne, Matron, Royal Free Hospital [London] on the food...
Dates:
08 Nov 1947 - 30 Mar 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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