Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
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Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 325 Collections and/or Records:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence., 03 Jan 1948 - 11 Mar 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/46
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Correspondents include: "Mule" [Sarah Oliver, earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, then Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including her visit to Canada and her wedding to Antony Beauchamp (16); "Alex", 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada]; Bernard Baruch; CSC on subjects including WSC's leadership of the Conservative Party, Chartwell [Kent] and Sarah (12); Antony Beauchamp; Hugh [? Frewen]; Oswald Frewen (2); Amy Guest (4); Raymond Guest; Sir Shane Leslie (3);...
Dates:
03 Jan 1948 - 11 Mar 1950
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence., 07 Jun 1951 - 10 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/49
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Correspondents include: "Sunny", Lord Blandford [later 11th Duke of Marlborough]; Sarah Churchill [later Sarah Crewe]; John G Churchill; CSC (7); Roger Frewen (2); Winston Guest (2); "Kitty", Lady Katherine Lambton; Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary, Lady Blandford] (3); Charles Rhys [later 8th Lord Dynevor]; Hope Rhys [later Hope, Lady Dynevor]; Giles Romilly; Clare Sheridan (3); [?] Patrick Mayhew, Secretary, Oxford University Conservative Association; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana...
Dates:
07 Jun 1951 - 10 Oct 1951
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Personal: Family etc.: Correspondence A - Churchill, John., Apr 1955 - May 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/135
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Correspondents include: Henry, Lord Audley (3); Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp] (16) on subjects including her acting career, her finances, her marriage to Lord Audley and his death; Arabella Churchill (6); CSC (28) on subjects including her visit to Paris [France] in 1956, the success of an exhibition of WSC's paintings, concern about Sarah [Lady Audley] and her arrest in Liverpool in 1959, a statue of WSC by David McFall, WSC's visit to the...
Dates:
Apr 1955 - May 1964
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - Churchill, Lady C (CSC)., 26 Oct 1951 - Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/50A-B
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Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] on her memoirs, "The Glitter and the Gold", including her criticism of Henry Asquith [1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and Margot Asquith [Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith] (9); Cass Canfield, Chairman of Harper and Brothers, Publishers (2); Sarah Beauchamp, "Mule" [earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley], on subjects including Oscar Nemon's sculpture of WSC, the death of Queen Mary...
Dates:
26 Oct 1951 - Apr 1955
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - J., 29 Nov 1949 - 23 May 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/47
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Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] (2); "Mule" [Sarah Beauchamp, earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] (15); Antony Beauchamp on subjects including hopes for WSC's re-election (4); CSC on subjects including Chartwell [Kent], and avoiding offence to Queen Juliana [? of the Netherlands] (52); "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster]; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey]; Mary Soames [earlier Mary...
Dates:
29 Nov 1949 - 23 May 1951
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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
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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...
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16 Oct 1943 - 16 Sep 1947
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - L., 11 Jan 1947 - 30 Jan 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/44
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Correspondents include: Jacques Balsan; "Sunny" [Lord Blandford, later 11th Duke of Marlborough]; CSC on subjects including President Roosevelt and the future of Chartwell Farm [Kent] (16); Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill; Lord Ivor Churchill; Hugh Frewen (2); Margaret de Reneville (2); Oswald Frewen (4); Amy Guest (2); Raymond Guest (2); representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company (11); Anita Leslie [later Anita King] (2); Desmond Leslie; Sir Shane Leslie, on his biography of...
Dates:
11 Jan 1947 - 30 Jan 1949
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence Churchill A - C., 04 Mar 1955 - 31 Aug 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/55
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Correspondents include: Arabella Churchill (4); CSC on subjects including WSC's work on volume 1 of ["A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"], her visit to Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], the Suez Canal [Egypt], family affairs, Chartwell [Kent], WSC's painting and the death of 1st Lord Bracken (91); Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, then Diana Bailey] (2); Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill] (3); Max Rosenheim [Director, Medical Unit, University College Hospital Medical School]; Sarah...
Dates:
04 Mar 1955 - 31 Aug 1958
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Personal: Family etc.: Correspondence Churchill J - S., 18 Jun 1955 - 18 Oct 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/56
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Correspondents include: John G Churchill (7); Sarah [Crewe], earlier Sarah Churchill; Randolph Churchill on subjects including WSC's attitude to his writing (7); Sarah Beauchamp [earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including her acting and CSC's health (11); Winston Churchill (8); Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden] (2); Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey] on WSC meeting Duncan Sandys; Edwina Sandys [later Edwina...
Dates:
18 Jun 1955 - 18 Oct 1958
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence G - Z., 19 Aug 1947 - 25 Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/52A-B
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Correspondents include: Amy Guest (23); CSC (3); Raymond Guest; Winston Guest; Berkeley Ormerod [Director, Public Relations], British Information Services (2); Sir Shane Leslie, on subjects including selling one of WSC's paintings for charity (6); Anita Leslie (Anita King) on her biography of Leonard Jerome (3); Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill; Lady Sarah Russell [earlier Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill]; "Bernie" [Bernard Baruch] (2); Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary, Lady Blandford]...
Dates:
19 Aug 1947 - 25 Apr 1955
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence, George Spencer-Churchill - F., 11 Jun 1950 - 01 Jun 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/51
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Spencer-Churchill; John G Churchill (6); CSC (2); Peregrine Churchill; Randolph Churchill, on subjects including his election campaign at Devonport [Plymouth, Devon] and his relations with WSC (24); June Churchill (2); Arabella Churchill (2); Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman] (3);Winston Churchill (9); 9th Lord de la Warr [earlier Lord Buckhurst], Postmaster General; Vivienne Entwistle, on taking photographs of WSC (9); Hugh Frewen (5); Oswald Frewen, on...
Dates:
11 Jun 1950 - 01 Jun 1955
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence M - Z., 03 Jan 1947 - 31 Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/45
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Correspondents include: Sarah Oliver ("Mule") [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, then Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including her career, family life and her holiday with WSC in Marrakech [Marrakesh] [Morocco] (15); CSC on subjects including a house for Randolph Churchill (6); Randolph Churchill on subjects including controversy between himself and the New Zealand unions, and the Presidential elections in the United States (17); Bella Lobban on a poodle, "Rufus" for WSC (4);...
Dates:
03 Jan 1947 - 31 Dec 1948
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Personal: Family etc.: Golden Wedding gift: Golden Rose avenue., 29 Aug 1958 - 06 Sep 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/57
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Includes: typescript plans of a book presented to WSC and CSC by their children, illustrating individual roses from their Golden Wedding gift of a rose avenue at Chartwell [Kent]; photographs of each rose in the book, drawn by artists including: Cathleen Mann; John Armstrong; Mary Potter; Ivon Hitchens; Paul Maze; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell; Cecil Beaton; John Nash; Augustus John; R A Butler; John Aldridge; Oliver Messel.Also includes: letters from Randolph Churchill on the book (3); a...
Dates:
29 Aug 1958 - 06 Sep 1958
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Personal: Financial Affairs: Lloyds Bank: Statement of Account., Oct 1937 - May 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/321
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Statement of WSC's current account with Lloyds Bank Limited, Cox's & King's Branch.
Dates:
Oct 1937 - May 1939
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Personal: Financial: income tax and surtax correspondence., 06 Mar 1940 - 22 Oct 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/7
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Correspondents on WSC's tax, financial, and investments position include: representatives of Fladgate and Company, particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor], (20); representatives of Lloyds Bank, particularly Geoffrey Mason, (29); representatives of Cassell and Company, including a Director, Desmond Flower, (2); Andrew Heiskell, [General Manager] of Life Magazine; John Wood of Wood, Willey, and Company [WSC's accountants] (50); Henry Luce [owner of Time magazine]; William Whitney, London...
Dates:
06 Mar 1940 - 22 Oct 1958
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Personal: Financial: income tax, surtax, property, salary: statements, accounts, memoranda, and forecasts prepared by Wood, Willey and Company [WSC's accountants]., 19 Oct 1951 - 16 Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/8
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Includes: accounts for Chartwell Farm [Kent] (September 1951 to September 1954) and 10 Downing Street (April 1952 to April 1954); financial statements (April 1951 to February 1954); turf account (August 1949 to October 1951); forecasts of living and other expenses (June 1952 to April 1953); profit and loss account for stud and valuation of horses (September 1953 to September 1954); particulars of income for 1952-3 surtax return and 1953-4 income tax return; estimated savings in taxes by...
Dates:
19 Oct 1951 - 16 Apr 1955
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Personal: Financial: Lloyds Bank: National Appeals, Chartwell Farm, and Presentation accounts., 05 Feb 1953 - 26 Oct 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/5
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Statements of WSC's National Appeals account for March to June 1953, Chartwell Farm [Kent] account for February 1953 to October 1957, and Presentation account for April 1955 to July 1957, all with Lloyds Bank, Cox's & King's Branch, 6 Pall Mall, London.
Dates:
05 Feb 1953 - 26 Oct 1957
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Personal: Staff: Correspondence., 21 Jul 1950 - 06 Nov 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/66
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Includes correspondence about various members of WSC's staff, including appointments, salary details and references. Correspondence relates to John Colville (former Private Secretary to WSC), Denis Kelly (literary assistant to WSC) and Walter Thompson (former personal detective to WSC), and to those who were given signed photographs of WSC.
Dates:
21 Jul 1950 - 06 Nov 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed (with the exception of 17-19, 69, 83-84, 99-112, 114, 117-140 and 221-225) on data protection grounds due to presence of sensitive and personal information about living individuals. Open date: 1 Jan 2033.
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Personal: Staff: Correspondence A -M., Jun 1952 - Jan 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/143
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Includes correspondence and notes about various members of WSC's staff including appointments, salary details, and references.
Dates:
Jun 1952 - Jan 1965
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Closed for 75 years on grounds of data protection due to the presence of sensitive and personal information about living individuals. Open date 1 January 2041.
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Personal: Staff: Correspondence A - N., 30 Dec 1945 - 24 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/64
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Includes correspondence about various members of WSC's staff, including appointments, salary details and references. Correspondence relates to Kathleen Hill (former secretary to WSC) and Denis Kelly (literary assistant to WSC).
Dates:
30 Dec 1945 - 24 Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed (with the exception of folios 141-146, 181-182 and 189-91) on data protection grounds due to presence of sensitive and personal information about living individuals. Open date 1 Jan 2027.
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Personal: Staff: Correspondence N - Z., Jun 1952 - Jan 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/144
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Includes correspondence and notes about various members of WSC's staff including appointments, salary details, and references.
Dates:
Jun 1952 - Jan 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed for 75 years on grounds of data protection due to the presence of sensitive and personal information about living individuals. Open date 1 January 2041.
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Personal: Staff: Correspondence O - Z., 06 Jun 1945 - 13 Dec 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/65
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Includes correspondence about various members of WSC's staff, including appointments, salary details and references. Correspondence relates to Walter Thompson (former personal detective to WSC) and the publication of his memoirs and Charles Wood (literary assistant to WSC).
Dates:
06 Jun 1945 - 13 Dec 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed (with the exception of folios 149-212 and 251-317) on data protection grounds due to presence of sensitive and personal information about living individuals. Open date 1 Jan 2027.
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Personal: Trade and business letters., 02 Jan 1945 - 27 Dec 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/389
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Household and business correspondence including letters on gift of fish from Chartwell [Kent] for President Franklin Roosevelt, and on WSC's order for some of the first ball-point pens from the Miles-Martin Pen Company.
Dates:
02 Jan 1945 - 27 Dec 1945
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Personal: Visits and Invitations: Cruises in Yacht Christina., Feb 1961 - Jul 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/154
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Correspondents include: John Wyndham [later 1st Lord Egremont and 6th Lord Leconfield], Private Secretary to Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton, Prime Minister]; 1st Lord Hailes [earlier Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, Governor General and Commander in Chief of the West Indies] (3); Peggy Ashcroft requesting permission to quote from WSC's speeches; Ian Turbott, Administrator of Antigua; CSC on her health (4); Aristotle Onassis on the dates and itinerary of the cruises (2); "Nonie" [Noel...
Dates:
Feb 1961 - Jul 1963
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Personal: Visits and Invitations: France: C - G., Sep 1955 - Sep 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/146
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Correspondents include: E Howitt, Traffic Manager of Cable and Wireless Limited, on arrangements for WSC to send telegrams from France (4); Raymond Gramaglia, Mayor of Cap d'Ail [France] on subjects including a request for WSC to present the Freedom of the City to Princess Grace [earlier Grace Kelly] (7); T Cobby (7) and W White (8) of the Automobile Association on arrangements to transport WSC's cars to France; Colin Coote, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post; Daisy,...
Dates:
Sep 1955 - Sep 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
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