Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
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Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-B., 1883 - 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/415
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Konrad Adenauer; Terence Grady, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary; Leo Amery; John Priestman [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; John Bartholomew, Director of the Geographical Institute; Commander Allan Noble, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty; and Sir Alexander Cadogan, Chairman of the BBC.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned above and to Alice...
Dates:
1883 - 1954
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-D., [1880] - Jan 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/394
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: [George] Gordon Allen; Colonel John Astor, [Chief Proprietor of] the Times; Brigadier Christopher Peto; Alan Campbell-Johnson; Robert Chapman; Dorothy Clements; Sir Denis Daley; Sir William Darling; and Somerset de Chair.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned above and to "Jimmie" 17th Duke of Alba, Richard Church and Sir James Dunn, Chairman and President of the Algoma [Canada] Steel Corporation...
Dates:
[1880] - Jan 1952
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-J., [1880] - Aug 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/391
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Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: 1st Lord Adams [earlier John Adams], Secretary of the Cumberland Development Council Limited; Ivison Macadam, Editor of the Annual Review of World Events; Sir Michael Wright, British Ambassador to Norway; Waldorf Astor; John Biggs-Davison, of the Conservative Research Department; L Burgess of L G Burgess Limited (3); Bryce Nairn; G Campanile on a drink he would like to name after WSC (4); Walter Starkie, Director of the British Institute in Madrid...
Dates:
[1880] - Aug 1951
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-Z., 11 Jun 1951 - 31 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/393A-B
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Vicomte Alain de Thieusies, Belgian Ambassador to Great Britain; "Jimmie" [17th] Duke of Alba; Brigadier-General Cecil Aspinall-Oglander; Morton Bernstein (3); Reginald Maudling; F Feilden (3); Amy Guest; Robert Lusty; Vivien, Lady Olivier [earlier Vivien Leigh]; John Nunneley of Staples Press Limited; and Arthur Sulzberger [publisher] of the New York Times.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned...
Dates:
11 Jun 1951 - 31 Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday and Christmas Gifts., 1955 - 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/440
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Viola Garvin; Oliver [1st] Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; "Willy" Sax; Major Henry Spence; Jane Welby; Stavros Niarchos; Sylvia Henley; "Prof" [1st Lord Cherwell, earlier Frederick Lindemann]; "Bernie" [Bernard] Baruch; Frank Rose; Brendan [1st Lord] Bracken; Charles [1st Lord] Moran [earlier Charles Wilson] and Diana [Lady] Moran [earlier Diana Wilson]; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham...
Dates:
1955 - 1956
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday gifts., 1920 - 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/443
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Public and Political: General: Gifts C-F., [1880] - 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/416
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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
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Correspondence T-W., 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/567
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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
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Public and Political: General: Gifts E-H., 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/409A-B
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Public and Political: General: Gifts G-J., 1887 - 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/417
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Public and Political: General: Gifts I-L., 1954 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/436
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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:
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