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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 72 Collections and/or Records:

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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday and Christmas gifts., 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/441
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Sir [Alfred] Chester Beatty; Tommy", Charles Thompson [former Personal Assistant to WSC]; Rhoda, Lady Birley; [8th] Lord Dynevor [earlier Charles Rhys]; "Willy" Sax; Peregrine Churchill; Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien, Lady Olivier [earlier Vivien Leigh]; Patrick Kinna [former Secretary to WSC]; Sir Alexander King; John G Churchill; Clement Flower; [Frank] Rose; Nicholas [Soames]; Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman] and Winston...
Dates: 1957
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday and Christmas gifts., Oct 1960 - Jan 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/445
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Clement Flower; Robert Lusty of John Lusty Limited; Lord Rupert Nevill; 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; Peregrine Churchill and Yvonne Churchill; Anthony Montague Browne; "Pug" [1st Lord Ismay] and Kathleen [Lady] Ismay; Julian Sandys; Edwina Sandys; "Willy" Sax [supplier of paints to WSC]; Sir Derek Greenaway; [8th] Lord Dynevor [earlier Charles Rhys]; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey]; Sylvia Henley;...
Dates: Oct 1960 - Jan 1961
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday and Christmas gifts., Oct 1961 - Jan 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/446
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Lady Juliet Duff; Arnold Carey Foster; Jack Billmeir; Peter [Patrick] Kinna [former Secretary to WSC]; Frank Sawyers [former valet to WSC]; Ava, Lady Waverley [earlier Ava, Lady Anderson and Ava Wigram]; [Frank] Rose; Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook]; Captain Sir Richard Pim; "Rock", 5th Lord Cholmondeley [earlier Lord Rocksavage]; "Max" [1st] Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; "Hinch" [Lord Hinchingbrooke, later 10th Lord...
Dates: Oct 1961 - Jan 1962
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday Gifts., 02 Dec 1947 - 03 May 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/387
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Robert Becker (4); Stella Daly (3); Lieutenant-Commander Frank de Vine-Hunt [former staff, Map Room] (2); Alfred Bossom; Percy Cox [agent for WSC's farms]; Elsie Blomfield; Mary Nankivell; Sir Oswald Birley and Rhoda, Lady Birley; "Bill" 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry]; Lady Juliet Duff; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited; Joan, Lady Davidson; Sylvia Henley; "Pug"...
Dates: 02 Dec 1947 - 03 May 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday gifts., 1920 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/443
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning birthday and Christmas gifts to WSC) include: Clement Flower; the Sultan of Brunei; Loudon Sainthill; Robert Lusty, Chairman of Hutchinson Publishing Group; Sir Roland Turnball, Governor of North Borneo [part of Malaysia]; Princess Mary; Rhoda, Lady Birley; Nicholas Soames; Emma Soames; Jeremy Soames; Charlotte Soames [later Charlotte Hambro and Charlotte, Lady Peel]; June Churchill; Oliver [1st] Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; Arnold Carey Foster; Ava,...
Dates: 1920 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday gifts C-E, 1874 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/423
Scope and Contents Correspondents (mainly concerning 80th birthday gifts to WSC) include: Harold Smedley [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations], James Armstrong [Agent General for Ontario, Canada, in the United Kingdom], 1st Lord Alexander, Ronald Belcher of the Commonwealth Relations Office, Frederick Hudd of the office of the High Commissioner for Canada (3) on gifts from Canada; Freda, Marquesa de Casa Maury [earlier Freda Dudley Ward] (2); Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier...
Dates: 1874 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday gifts F-L, 1915 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/424
Scope and Contents Correspondents (mainly concerning 80th birthday gifts to WSC) include: Captain Alwyne Farquarson; [2nd Lord] Fisher of Kilverstone; Oswald Frewen (with a letter from [Moreton] Frewen dating to 1915); Roger Frewen and Alexandra Frewen; Herbert Haseltine (3); Sylvia Henley; Kathleen Hill [former Secretary to WSC]; Edward Martell, Chairman of the Winston Churchill 80th Birthday Presentation Fund; John Graham [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; Sir Bruce Ingram; Nora, Lady...
Dates: 1915 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday gifts: General public A-H., 1952 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/427A-F
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning 80th birthday gifts to WSC) include: Harriet Aldrich; Terence Grady (3) and John Graham [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; Frederick Biggs (3); R Barnes, President of the British Beekeepers' Association (5); Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Jacob, Director General of the BBC; Ian Bancroft [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Carmelita Burgers (3); John Stacpoole of the Colonial Office (4), Peter Kitcatt and Barry Smallman [Assistant...
Dates: 1952 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday gifts: General public I-Z., 1864 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/428A-G
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning 80th birthday gifts to WSC) include: Helmut Isenberg, Export Director, Paper-Mate Eastern (3); Terence Grady (2) and John Graham (3) [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; King Peter II of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Ludwig Koch; Leslie Pine, Managing Editor of Burke's Peerage (2); Geoffrey Lane; Claude Muncaster; [William] Gladstone Murray; [Leonard] David Gammans;...
Dates: 1864 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open except for folios 482-497 which have been removed from the file on grounds of data protection as they contain sensitive information about named individuals. Closed for 75 years until 1 Jan 2030.
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday gifts M-R., 1954 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/425
Scope and Contents Correspondents (mainly concerning 80th birthday gifts to WSC) include: Abdel Rahman El Mahdi; Lieutenant-Commander Michael Parker [Private Secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh]; Mary, Duchess of Marlborough; Percy Cox; Somerset Maugham; Paul Maze; Admiral [1st] Lord Mountbatten of Burma., Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean; Donald Byford, Chairman of the Melton [Leicestershire] Conservative and Unionist Association; Sir Charlton Lane of the Mercers' Company; Christopher Holland-Martin, Honorary...
Dates: 1954 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts C-D., 1899 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/408A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Jean, Lady Campbell; Thelma Cazalet-Keir; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier Frederick Lindemann]; Ronald Belcher of the Commonwealth Relations Office; "Rock", 5th Lord Cholmondeley [earlier Lord Rocksavage]; Richard Church; Peregrine Churchill; John Colville and Mary Colville; Adrian Conan Doyle; [George] 3rd Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington] and Esme, Lady Cromer [earlier Esme Harmsworth]; Brigadier George Davy; William Deakin; Captain Sir...
Dates: 1899 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts C-F., [1880] - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/416
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Rafton Pounder, Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association; Richard Casey, Australian Minister for External Affairs; [5th Lord] Cholmondeley [earlier Lord Rocksavage]; John G Churchill and Hilda Churchill; Terence Grady, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Publisher, Oxford University Press; Sir James Dunn, Chairman and President of the Algoma [Canada] Steel Corporation Limited; Dr Ludwig...
Dates: [1880] - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Correspondence T-W., 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/567
Scope and Contents Correspondents concerning gifts to WSC include: Guy Millard of the Foreign Office advising on gifts from abroad; [5th Duke of] Palmella, Portuguese Ambassador to Great Britain; [1st Lord] Templewood [earlier Samuel Hoare], British Ambassador to Spain; Francis Turnbull, Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for India; "Chopper" [7th Duke of Portland, earlier Lord Tichfield]; Bernard Barnes, Director of the United States Office of War Information in London; Bernard Sendall,...
Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts E-H., 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/409A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Charles Eade, Director of Associated Newspapers Limited; Maurice Edelman; William Bennett, Chairman of Essex County Council; Frederick Fisher (3); George Moseley; Louis Golding; Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International]; Joyce Hall, President, Hallmark Cards; Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, Chairman of the Harmsworth Press; Henry Harrison; Herbert Haseltine; Sylvia Henley; Ralph Hodder-Williams, Chairman of Hodder and...
Dates: 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts E-H., 1954 - May 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/435
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Sir Ian Fraser; Leonard Elgood, Director of the Distillers' Company Limited; J Ransome, Secretary of the Federation of British Carpet Manufacturers (4); Terence Grady (2) and John Graham (3) [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; George Fisher (5); Sir Oliver Franks; Victor Gollancz; Douglas Guthrie; Sir Gavin de Beer, Director of the British Museum of Natural History; Bernard Hailstone with a photograph of his portrait of WSC;...
Dates: 1954 - May 1958
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: Gifts G-J., 1887 - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/417
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Evelyn Shuckburgh, Foreign Office; Andrew Stark [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary] (4); El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech [Marrakesh, Morocco]; Victor Gollancz, President of Victor Gollancz Limited; David Guthrie (3); Hamish Hamilton, Chairman of Hamish Hamilton Limited; Air Commodore Arthur Vere Harvey; Robert Hilton of John Edgington and Company Limited (3)...
Dates: 1887 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Gifts awaited., Feb 1952 - Feb 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/432
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC which were not received) include: Terence Grady and John Priestman [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary] concerning gifts from overseas; Ralph Hodder-Williams, Chairman of Hodder and Stoughton Limited; and Sir Max Aitken, Vice-Chairman of the Daily Express.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; press cuttings on WSC's 80th birthday and presents to him (including a portrait of WSC by Graham...
Dates: Feb 1952 - Feb 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Golden Wedding and Birthday., 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/442
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC and congratulations on his and CSC's golden wedding) include: Julian Sandys, Edwina Sandys and Celia Sandys; Duncan Sandys; Antonio Giraudier (3); Henry Luce; James Drawbell, Managing Editor of Newnes and Pearson's; "Pug" [1st Lord Ismay] and Kathleen [Lady] Ismay; Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited; Marcel Boussac; "Willy" Sax; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Violet, Lady Hardy; Winifred Stables (3); Clement Flower; Sir...
Dates: 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts I-L., 1954 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/436
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: [1st Lord] Ismay; Brian Goddard, Secretary of the Winston Churchill 80th birthday presentation fund; and Eric Kennington.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; newspaper cuttings (including an article about WSC and Dwight Eisenhower); photographs; pamphlets about the Catholic religion; paintings and sketches; portraits of WSC; a copy letter from Rudyard Kipling; and notes and copies of...
Dates: 1954 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts I-O., 06 Apr 1951 - 29 Jan 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/396
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: George Keating (5); Jacqueline, Lady Killearn; Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to King George VI; Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International]; Miss McLees regarding a gift from Sir James Lithgow (3); John Lockhart; Henry Luce of Time-Life International; 1st Lord Marchwood [earlier Frederick Penny]; Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Moore; Sir Clive Morrison-Bell; Sydney Moseley; Bernard Myers; Leander...
Dates: 06 Apr 1951 - 29 Jan 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts J-L., 1850 - 24 Dec 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/402
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: [Kenneth] Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Robert Lusty; W Keatinge-Clay (4); Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Sir Alexander King; [William] Stephen King-Hall; Sir Alexander Korda; Rom Landau; Henry Laughlin [President of Houghton Mifflin Company]; John Leslie; and Shane Leslie.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned above and to...
Dates: 1850 - 24 Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts K-N., 1900 - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/418
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Sir Alexander Korda; Evelyn Leaman (4); Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; David Low; Ann Whitman, Personal Secretary to President Dwight Eisenhower; Harvey Jamieson, Secretary of the Company of merchants in the city of Edinburgh [Scotland]; Sir Clifford Radcliffe, Clerk of Middlesex County Council; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore; Brendan Bracken; Edgar Beck, Director of John Mowlem and Company Limited; and...
Dates: 1900 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts L-N., Dec 1952 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/411A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Margaret Lethwaite; Robert Menzies; Mohammed Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan; Dorothy, Lady Moran [earlier Dorothy Wilson]; Sir John Lei Hop, Agent General for Victoria [Australia]; Hector McNeil; John Neale, Astor Professor of English History, University of London; [6th] Lord Nelson; Lord Rupert Nevill; E Rhodes-Wood (4) of the New Zealand legion of frontiersmen and J Morrison (3) of the Commonwealth Relations Office on the presentation of a...
Dates: Dec 1952 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts M-O, 1890 - Dec 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/403
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Don Salvador de Madariaga; Ella Maillart; Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary Cadogan]; Lieutenant-General Sir Giffard Martel; George Mikes; Sir Thomas More; 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson] and Dorothy, Lady Moran [earlier Dorothy Wilson]; "Dickie" [Lord Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India]; Ivison Macadam, Director General of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; Sir Arthur MacNalty; Reverend George Appleton;...
Dates: 1890 - Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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