Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
Personal: Visits and Invitations: France: C - G., Sep 1955 - Sep 1961
Personal: Visits and Invitations: France: H - Le., Sep 1955 - Apr 1963
Personal: Visits and invitations: France: R - S., Aug 1955 - Apr 1963
Public and Political: General: 2 bound diaries, including details of WSC's daily engagements and notes from his staff., Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
Public and Political: General: bound diary, including details of WSC's daily engagements as [First Lord of the Admiralty and] Prime Minister, and notes for his staff., 1940
Details written in the hands of various of WSC's and CSC's secretaries [Kathleen Hill, Mary Shearburn, and Grace Hamblin].
Public and Political: General: bound diary, which from September includes details of WSC's daily engagements [as First Lord of the Admiralty]., 1939
Also includes some details of hours worked by his secretaries "K H" [Kathleen Hill], "O H" [Olive Harrington], "M S" [Mary Shearburn, later Mrs Walter Thompson], and "E R W".
Public and Political: General: General Election: Tours., 22 Jun 1945 - 18 Jul 1945
Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B. [please note that almost the whole file dates from 1942]., c [1892] - Dec 1942
Public and Political: General: Personal Office: Correspondence T - Y., 11 Apr 1939 - 20 Dec 1939
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Mi - Mu, Mac., 21 Jan 1947 - 05 Oct 1962
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, Moran - Nixon., Jul 1953 - Dec 1964
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sc - St., 27 Jul 1945 - 09 Jul 1960
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Harold Macmillan., 06 Jul 1953 - 21 Aug 1959
Public and Political: General: Various: "I guarded Winston" by Ex-Inspector Walter Thompson: typescript., 1939 - 1945
Public and Political: General: Various: "I worked for Mr Churchill" by Elizabeth Layton, typescript., 1947
Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946): press cuttings., 12 Sep 1946 - 11 Oct 1946
Press cuttings on WSC's visit, on subjects including: WSC's visits to Lausanne, Zurich, Berne and Geneva; WSC's speech at the University of Zurich ["The Tragedy of Europe", 19th September 1946] on the need to establish a United States of Europe; Walter Thompson, WSC's police guard; WSC's painting; a planned attack on WSC.
Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland ( August - September 1946) S., 19 Jun 1946 - 02 Jan 1947
Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States (January - March 1946) S - Z., 03 Oct 1945 - 07 Aug 1946
(Untitled), 22 Feb 1942 - 15 Jul 1942
Copy of a letter from John Colville [pilot, RAFVR, former Private Secretary to WSC] to CSC with impressions of South Africa and criticisms of the Empire Air Training Scheme; with correspondence between WSC, Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] and 1st Lord Cherwell [Personal Assistant to WSC, earlier F A Lindemann] enquiring about the efficiency of the scheme, and Colville's progress.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1942 - 11 Feb 1943
Correspondence on John Colville [former Private Secretary to WSC] being found unfit for a pilot's commission; includes letters between John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC], WSC, Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] and Ronald Melville [Private Secretary to Sinclair] on the inconvenience to WSC of releasing Colville, his progress in training, and the limitations of training in South Africa.
(Untitled), 12 May 1942
Letter from WSC to Miss G Lamont [Administrator, Chequers, Buckinghamshire] thanking her for the birthday cake.
(Untitled), 17 Jul 1925
Letter from Knight, Frank & Rutley to Joseph Martin, Chartwell Farm, on WSC's decision to give up his cows, and stating that he would therefore have no further use for Martin's services [copy].
(Untitled), 25 Apr 1926
Letter from [Clarice Fisher], P.S. to WSC, to J. Martin, Stockman, Chartwell, on his move to Oak-Hyrst Grange Farm, Caterham, also on WSC's willingness to provide a him with a testimonial [carbon].
(Untitled), 26 Apr 1926
Letter from [Clarice Fisher], P.S. to WSC, to C Barker, on J Martin's move from Chartwell to Oak-Hyrst Grange Farm, Caterham [carbon].
(Untitled), [Apr 1926]
Letter from J Martin, Stockman, Chartwell, to WSC, on his move from Chartwell to Oak-Hyrst Grange Farm, Caterham, also asking for reference.