Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 823 Collections and/or Records:
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Personal: Bank Pass Book., Oct 1909 - Apr 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/94
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WSC's bank pass book, for current account with Cox & Company.
Dates:
Oct 1909 - Apr 1911
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Personal: Bank Pass Book., Oct 1915 - May 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/123
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WSC's Bank Pass Book, for current account with Cox & Company.
Dates:
Oct 1915 - May 1917
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Open
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Personal: Bank Pass Books., Jan 1921 - Jan 1923
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/156
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WSC's Pass Book for Current Account with Cox & Company, Pall Mall, London.
Dates:
Jan 1921 - Jan 1923
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Personal: Bank Pass Books., 1898 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/21
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WSC's bank pass books for account with Cox & Co., Pall Mall, London [3 volumes, one is blank and another undated].
Dates:
1898 - 1900
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Personal: Business and Financial., Jun 1957 - Dec 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/110
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Investments: weeky price lists Typescript lists of WSC's investments with prices and valuation, some with handwritten annotations by WSC.
Dates:
Jun 1957 - Dec 1962
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Personal: Business and Financial: American Income Tax., May 1963 - Jan 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/115
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Correspondence between Anthony Montague-Browne, PS to WSC, James Wood, Wood, Willey & Co., Chartered Accountants and Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors, on WSC's liabilty to United States Income Tax.
Dates:
May 1963 - Jan 1965
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Personal: Business and Financial: Exhibition of Paintings, Australia and New Zealand, 1958., 01 Nov 1957 - 05 Feb 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/126
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Correspondents on arrangements for the exhibition include: Sir Eric Harrison, High Commissioner for Australia; Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia (3); A Kenney [Assistant Secretary, Australia House] (12); Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand (3); and Sir George Laking, Acting High Commissioner for New Zealand.Also includes newspaper cuttings about the exhibitions in both countries; catalogues of the paintings exhibited; and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague...
Dates:
01 Nov 1957 - 05 Feb 1959
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Personal: Business and Financial: Exhibition of Paintings, United States: Hallmark and Wildenstein and Company., 24 Jun 1957 - 23 Aug 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/124
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Correspondents on arrangements for the exhibition include: Dwight Eisenhower, on the importance of the exhibition to Anglo-American relations; Joyce Hall, of Hallmark cards (33); Sarah [Beauchamp, earlier Sarah Churchill and Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley]; Brian MacCabe, Chairman and Managing Director of Foote, Cone and Belding Limited, on advertising (5); and A Rawlinson of Wildenstein and Company on transport.Also includes: a copy letter from John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of...
Dates:
24 Jun 1957 - 23 Aug 1958
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Personal: Business and Financial: Fladgate and Company., Jul 1955 - Mar 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/111
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Correspondence with Fladgate and Company, Solicitors, Pall Mall, London, [mainly with Anthony Moir] divided into several headings: Lady Audley [formerly Sarah Churchill], pp.1-30 80th Birthday Trust, pp.31-37 Lady Churchill and Diana Churchill, pp.38-59 Chartwell Trust and Major John Churchill Trust, also includes correspondence with Wthers, Nicholl, Manisty and Company: pp.60-114 Insurance and Finances, includes dispute with a Swiss company over the use of the name "Old Winston's whisky"...
Dates:
Jul 1955 - Mar 1965
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Personal: Business and Financial: Investments., Dec 1956 - May 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/108
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Correspondence on WSC's investments, including letters from John Colville, Philip Hill, Higginson & Co. Ltd (6); Tom Hazlerigg, Rea Brothers Ltd (26): A L Ball and G Cedric Watkins, Managers, Cox's and King's Branch, Lloyds Bank (31)); Edmond de Rothschild; purchase notes; cuttings from the Investors Chronicle on Canadian stock prices (24).
Dates:
Dec 1956 - May 1960
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Personal: Business and Financial: Investments., Jun 1960 - Jul 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/109
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Correspondence on WSC's investments, including letters from G Cedric Watkins, Manager, Cox's & King's Branch, Lloyds Bank (26); Tom Hazlerigg; John Colville, Philip Hill, Higginson, Erlangers Ltd (4): sale notes from Rea Brothers Ltd for sale of Canadian investments (8); correspndence on possible investment in Productivity Investments Limited (8).
Dates:
Jun 1960 - Jul 1964
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Personal: Business and Financial: Lloyds Bank., Oct 1955 - Dec 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/105
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Correspondence with Lloyds Bank (83) [mainly with A L Ball, Manager, Cox's & King's Branch, Pall Mall, London] on WSC's current and investment account, and asking of WSC would be willing to write foreword to History of Cox & King's Branch File also includes correspondence with John Colville, Philip Hiill, Higginson & Co. Ltd on investments (2); aand royalty statements from Houghton Mifflin Co.,.
Dates:
Oct 1955 - Dec 1957
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Personal: Business and Financial: Lloyds Bank., Jan 1961 - Feb 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/107
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Correspondence with Lloyds Bank in WSC's current and investment accounts, mainly with G Cedric Watkins, Manager, Cox's and King's Branch, Pall Mall, London (18), also with Harald Peake, Vice Chairman, (2) on portrait.
Dates:
Jan 1961 - Feb 1965
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Personal: Business and Financial: Recovery of Churchill Papers from Peter Eaton Limited Bookseller., Jun 1950 - Dec 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/131
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Includes original material (and photocopies of it) recovered [from Peter Eaton Limited bookseller). This comprises: notes and correspondence relating to the composition of WSC's history of the Second World War; letters from Raymond Daniell and Theodore Bernstein of the New York Times; a note from Charles Wood [former literary assistant to WSC]; a letter from Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company; a note from Graham Dixon about the [Chartwell] Literary Trust; and a photocopy of a pamphlet on...
Dates:
Jun 1950 - Dec 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open except for folios 1, 14-31 which have been closed on grounds of data protection for 75 years due to the presence of sensitive information about named individuals. Open date: 1 January 2040.
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Personal: Business and Financial: Wood, Willey & Co., 1960 - Aug 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/114
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Correspondence with Wood, Willey and Company, Chartered Accountants [mainly with James Wood, Senior Partner] on WSC's accounts. File includes balance sheets, with statements of expenditure, and profit and loss accounts for Chartwell Farm [Kent] and Newchapel Stud, 1959-63.
Dates:
1960 - Aug 1964
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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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Personal: Business correspondence., Nov 1948 - Apr 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/20
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Correspondents include: representatives of Miles-Martin Pen Company on the pen WSC used to annotate "The Second World War" (4); Christopher Hewer on WSC's medical bill; Robert MacKenna on WSC's medication (2); Douglas Parbury on fish at Chartwell [Kent] (6); John Baber and his wife offering WSC a stay at their home in Portofino [Italy]; Herbert Gfroerer of the Soundscriber Corporation (10), James Killian, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [United States], and George...
Dates:
Nov 1948 - Apr 1951
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Personal: Business correspondence., Jan 1949 - Aug 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/21
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Correspondents include: Hugh Newman on butterflies at Chartwell [Kent] (4); Sir Alexander Roger (2) and Colin Coote [Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph and the Morning Post] (6) on procuring brandy for WSC; Frederic Bates, Chairman of Cunard White Star Limited; Douglas Parbury on fish for ponds at Chartwell (8); Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (4); representatives of Anthony Juer Lighting Limited on studio lighting (4); Frank Juler on WSC's eyesight; Christopher...
Dates:
Jan 1949 - Aug 1950
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Personal: Business correspondence., Jun 1950 - Aug 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/22
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Correspondents include: James Mark (HM Treasury); Ben Russell, [Director] Cunard White Star Limited; representatives of Lloyds Bank (5); representatives of A Durr and Company on cigars (4); George Andrews (2) and James Boyd (3) on seeing WSC on board the Queen Mary; Wilfred Fish [WSC's dentist] (2); Desmond Crawley [Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary for Commonwealth Relations] (2); Sir Charles Howard, Sergeant at Arms, House of Commons, on aiding WSC's hearing in the House; O C...
Dates:
Jun 1950 - Aug 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Business correspondence A-D., Jul 1945 - Jul 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/15
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Correspondents include: representatives of Lloyds Bank including Geoffrey Mason and T E R Harris (3); Rosemary McEntire of the British Embassy in Paris [France] (4) and Thomas Bromley (Foreign Office) on repairs to WSC's Breguet watch; Claus Vogel on WSC's visit to Switzerland in 1946; representatives of Cassell and Company (2), including a director, Desmond Flower, on the publication of WSC's war memoirs in the Daily Telegraph; Colonel Frank Clarke (4), HM Customs and Excise (5), and Alfred...
Dates:
Jul 1945 - Jul 1947
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Personal: Business correspondence A-F., Nov 1945 - Mar 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/18
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Correspondents include: representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Few [WSC's solicitors] (24) and J C Tweed [an Irish solicitor] (4) on subjects including WSC selling the Carnlough [Antrim, Ulster, Ireland] estate to 13th Lord Antrim [earlier Randall McDonnell]; representatives of Berry Brothers and Rudd Limited on WSC's orders for champagne and whisky (9); 1st Lord Sandford [earlier Sir Albert Edmondson]; Sir William Rootes (2) and Christopher Soames on providing cars; Ben Russell, [Director]...
Dates:
Nov 1945 - Mar 1949
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Personal: Business correspondence E-Z., Jul 1945 - Jul 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/16
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Correspondents include: Howard Thomas, Producer in Chief, Pathe Pictures Limited, on film of WSC receiving the freedom of Ayr [Scotland]; Percy Cole, Editor, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons [Hansard] on reprints of WSC's speeches (2); Eleanor Goole of St Dunstan's [Institute for the Blind] on Braille editions of WSC's books (4); representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Few [WSC's solicitors] (8); representatives of Twiss, Brownings and Hallowes Limited (8) and Sir Eric Crankshaw,...
Dates:
Jul 1945 - Jul 1947
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Personal: Business correspondence G-Z., Nov 1945 - Mar 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/19
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Correspondents include: Sir Geoffrey Callender, Director, National Maritime Museum, on WSC loaning them a globe; Charles Ince on sketching in the open; 1st Lord Mackintosh of Halifax, President, National Advertising Benevolent Society, on a donation by WSC; representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Few [WSC's solicitors] (6); Sir Charles Howard, Sergeant at Arms, House of Commons, on WSC's petrol consumption; Willy Sax [WSC's paint supplier] (13); John Govett, Chairman of the Zinc Corporation...
Dates:
Nov 1945 - Mar 1949
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Personal: Business: correspondence with Associated American Artists, Hallmark Cards, Soho Gallery Limited on reproducing WSC's paintings as Christmas cards and postcards., 1947 - 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/26A-B
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Correspondents include: representatives of the Soho Publishing Company (Soho Gallery) (21); representatives of Fladgate and Company, particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (101); representatives of Associated American Artists (3); [William] Surrey Dane of Odhams Press Limited (2); representatives of Hall Brothers Incorporated (Hallmark Cards), including its President, Joyce Hall (some in a private capacity) (33); representatives of Foote, Cone and Belding Limited, public relations (12);...
Dates:
1947 - 1960
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Personal: Business: correspondence with representatives of Fladgate and Company, particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor]., 1948 - 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/28A-B
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: Sir Arthur Jarratt (3); Sir Alexander Korda; Brendan Bracken; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Maxwell Aitken]; Leslie Graham-Dixon (2); Bernard Baruch. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Grace Hamblin, Elizabeth Gilliatt, Gillian Maturin, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford] and Doreen Pugh; and Denis Kelly [Literary Assistant to...
Dates:
1948 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
Open