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 I-O., 06 Apr 1951 - 29 Jan 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/396
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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...
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06 Apr 1951 - 29 Jan 1952
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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
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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...
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1850 - 24 Dec 1952
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Public and Political: General: Gifts K-N., 1900 - 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/418
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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...
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1900 - 1954
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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
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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...
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Dec 1952 - 1953
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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
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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;...
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1890 - Dec 1952
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Public and Political: General: Gifts M-Z., [1934] - Apr 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/390
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Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Sir Alfred Munnings; Odette Pol Roger; John Rodgers; Frederic Roe; "Willy" Sax [supplier of paints to WSC]; Sir Alfred Brown, Legal Advisor to the High Commissioner in Germany; Edward Shrapnell-Smith; Colonel Douglas Clifton-Brown [later 1st Lord Ruffside]; George Benson; Sir Jasper Ridley, Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery; and Sir Francis Beane, Chairman of the Bank of British West Africa Limited.Also includes copies of correspondence...
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[1934] - Apr 1951
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Public and Political: General: Gifts O-R., Dec 1952 - Dec 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/412
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Roden Orden; Joan, Lady Portal; Henry Pratt Boorman; Sir Carol Reed and [Penelope], Lady Reed; Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams (with notes on taxation); John Tilney; Nellie Romilly [earlier Nellie Hozier]; [6th] Lord Rosebery [earlier Albert Primrose]; Esmond [2nd Lord] Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; Sir William Farren, President of the Royal Aeronautical Society; and Sir Ivison Macadam, editor of the Annual Register of World Events.Also...
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Dec 1952 - Dec 1953
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Public and Political: General: Gifts O-R., 1908 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/419
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: John O'Donnell (3); Sir Esmond Ovey; Dato Paglar (3) regarding a gift of cigars; Richard Pape (4) regarding his escape from the Netherlands during World War II and the presentation of spoons to WSC; Desmond Crawley [Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]; Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Alan Hodge, editor of History Today; A Pratt (3); [Mary] Irene, Lady Ravensdale...
Dates:
1908 - 1955
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Public and Political: General: Gifts P-Z., 15 Aug 1951 - 31 Jan 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/397
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Reginald Paget on the release of German commanders including [Field Marshal Fritz von] Manstein; Frederick Leishman [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Sarah Beauchamp [earlier Sarah Churchill and Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley]; "Willy" Sax [supplier of paints to WSC]; Barney Seale; [John] Kennedy Thompson, Attache for Colonial Affairs; Ella Sprott (4); Sir Ronald Storrs; Lowell Thomas; [Cyril] George Toogood;...
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15 Aug 1951 - 31 Jan 1952
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Public and Political: General: Gifts S., 1899 - Dec 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/405
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: [Kenneth] Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; [Charles] Evelyn Shuckburgh [Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Frank Salisbury; Monica, Lady Salmond; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey] and Duncan Sandys; Willy Sax (3); "Top" [3rd Lord Selborne, earlier Lord Wolmer]; Colonel Ronald Sherbrooke-Walker; Colin Coote [Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post];...
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1899 - Dec 1952
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Public and Political: General: Gifts S., 1900 - 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/413
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Colonel Sir Harold Mitchell; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey] and Duncan Sandys; "Willy" Sax [supplier of paints to WSC]; Dudley Senanayake, Prime Minister of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka]; Charles Vignoles, Chairman of Shell-Mex and British Petroleum Limited; Arnold Silcock; Evelyn Shuckburgh, Foreign Office; Frederick Snow; Anthony Gafftey-Smith, Chairman of the Southern Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] Currency...
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1900 - 1953
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Public and Political: General: Gifts S., 1707 - 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/420
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Frank Salisbury; Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough]; Ronald Belcher of the Commonwealth Relations Office; [Kenneth] Michael Wilford [Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; John Priestman [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; A Smalley (4) with poems; John Walker, Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum; Ella Sprott (4); and Andrew...
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1707 - 1954
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Public and Political: General: Gifts T-Z., 1908 - Dec 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/406
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Robert Taylor; Gerald Taylor (3); "Tommy", Charles Thompson [former Personal Assistant to WSC]; Marigold, Lady Thurso [earlier Marigold, Lady Sinclair]; Colonel John Astor [Chief Proprietor of] the Times; William McAdam, Agent-General for the province of British Columbia [Canada]; Leonard Elgood, Director of the Distillers Company Limited; Ava, Lady Waverley [earlier Ava, Lady Anderson and Ava Wigram]; William Weech; Chaim Weizmann; [Edward]...
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1908 - Dec 1952
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Public and Political: General: Gifts T-Z., 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/414
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Charles Taylor and Constance Taylor; Myron Taylor; Warren Tute; Sig Unander, State Treasurer of the State of Oregon [United States]; Sir Stanley Unwin, Chairman of George Allen and Unwin Limited; Sir Harold Mitchell; J Arthur Walker with details of an astrological chart for WSC (5); Earl Warren, Governor of California [United States]; Frederick Leishman [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; Nancy, Duchess of Westminster;...
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1953
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Public and Political: General: Gifts T-Z., 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/421
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: John Priestman [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary], Evelyn Shuckburgh, Foreign Office, Peter Kitcatt [Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for the Colonies], Louis Petch [Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer], and Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary] on the acceptance of gifts by WSC; Colonel John Astor, [Chief Proprietor of] the Times; Josip Tito; Vladimir Velebit,...
Dates:
1954
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From the Fonds:
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Public and Political: General: Gifts T-Z., 1818 - 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/439
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Terence Grady and John Graham [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; Sidney Toy (3); Catherine Vesey-Fitzgerald; Vera Weizmann; "Orlo" [Orlando] Williams; Sir Edward Bridges, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury; Brigadier-General Sir Ormonde Winter; H Nishi, Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom; Shigeru Yoshida, former Prime Minister of Japan; and Sir Esler Dening, British Ambassador to Japan.Also includes: notes and...
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1818 - 1958
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings., 1945 - 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/464
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Correspondents (concerning birthday wishes to WSC) include: Percy Cox; Ivor [Bulmer-] Thomas; Vivien [Lady] Olivier [earlier Vivien Leigh] and Laurence Olivier; Major-General [Edmund] Hakewill-Smith; Martin Lindsay; Horatia Seymour; Simon Rodney; Victor Oliver; Vice-Admiral [Lawrence] Braithwaite; Douglas Fairbanks; Oliver Locker-Lampson; "Cranckie" [Sir Edward Crankshaw]; [1st Lord] Lyle; Andre de Staercke; Sir [James] Arthur Salter; [Cyril] Asquith; Lieutenant-Colonel Nawab Malik Khan...
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1945 - 1951
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings, 1899 - 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/491A-F
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Correspondents (concerning birthday greetings and good wishes following his fall) include: Joyce Hall; Winston Guest; Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand; John Peck; John Wilson [later 2nd Lord Moran]; Sir Albert Richardson, former President of the Royal Academy; Herbert Haseltine; Henry Laughlin; Maria Callas; Esmond [2nd Lord] Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; [Sir Alfred] Chester Beatty; Averell Harriman; Sir Hugh Tudor; Elizabeth Gilliatt; Sir [Edward] Spears; [1st Lord]...
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1899 - 1960
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings: various bodies and acquaintances, and associated correspondence, 1894 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/471A-G
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Correspondents (concerning birthday greetings to WSC) include: Archibald Ballantyne, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Margaret, Lady Ebbisham, President of the Ladies' Imperial Chapter of the Primrose League; Tom O'Brien, M P for Nottingham; Una, Lady O'Dwyer; Sir Charles Petrie, Chairman of the 1900 Club; Harold Glanville; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore, Master of the Needlemakers' Livery; [7th Lord] Nelson; William Nunn; Bryce Nairn; "Harry" [1st] Lord McGowan; Sir Desmond...
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1894 - 1955
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Golden wedding congratulations: General public., 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/486A-K
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Includes greeting cards, letters and telegrams from members of the public to WSC and CSC congratulating them on their ggolden wedding. Also includes newspaper cuttings, poems, photographs (including a photograph of CSC with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), colour transparencies of Blenheim Palace, and copies of replies sent by WSC, CSC, Grace Hamblin and Doreen Pugh [Private Secretaries to WSC].
Dates:
1958
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Knight of the Garter (installation): congratulations., 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/469
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Correspondents (congratulating WSC on his installation as a Knight of the Garter) include: Sir George Bellew, Garter Principal King of Arms; [Lord] Ivor [Guest]; Antonio Giraudier; Hadj Thami El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakesh [Morocco]; James Greenwood; "Betty", Lady Hastings; Anne, Lady Islington; and Harold Soper (4) regarding WSC's garter plate.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; a photograph of WSC in garter robes; newspaper cuttings (including...
Dates:
1954
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Cincinnati - Czechoslovak Legionaries., Jan 1952 - Dec 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/549A-B
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Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Francis Hatch, President General of the Society of the Cincinnati on WSC's descent from Lieutenant Reuben Murray (through Lady Randolph Churchill) (3); Sir Irving Gane on WSC's admission to the freedom of the City of London; Kenneth Post, Director of the Civic Trust; R Osborne, Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service...
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Jan 1952 - Dec 1964
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, Bristol University., Jun 1954 - Nov 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/542
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Correspondents from representatives of Bristol University to WSC [Chancellor of Bristol University] include: Sir Philip Morris, Vice Chancellor, on subjects including the use of WSC's coat of arms at Churchill Hall, the visit by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a gift from the Sir Winston Churchill Birthday trust, the conferment of honorary degrees, WSC's visit to the University in 1954 and a portrait of WSC (20); Alan Reynolds, Warden of Churchill Hall (5); James Orr, Private Secretary to...
Dates:
Jun 1954 - Nov 1957
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, Chingford - Churchill., Jan 1956 - Mar 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/548A-B
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Correspondents concerning honours to be given to WSC, or tributes made to him or requesting support from WSC include: [John] Steven Watson, Censor of Christ Church College, Oxford; Henry Hayward, Chief of London News Bureau, the Christian Science Monitor (4); [9th Lord] Howard de Walden and John Graham, Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary on the Churchill Club of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Gilbert Cohen, Chairman of the House Committee, Churchill Court (Sevenoaks, Kent); Mary Soames...
Dates:
Jan 1956 - Mar 1965
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, D., Feb 1956 - Nov 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/550
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Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Thomas Bridges [Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary] (2); "Bill", Sir [Cyril] Berkeley Ormond, Director of Public Relations at British Information Services on a donation from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (4); Sir John Colville and Major General "Jack" Hamilton, Bursar of Churchill College, Cambridge on the...
Dates:
Feb 1956 - Nov 1964
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