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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 4519 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
Scope and Contents

WSC's bank pass book, for current account with Cox & Company.

Dates: Oct 1909 - Apr 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Bank Pass Book., Oct 1915 - May 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/123
Scope and Contents

WSC's Bank Pass Book, for current account with Cox & Company.

Dates: Oct 1915 - May 1917
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Bank Pass Books., Jan 1921 - Jan 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/156
Scope and Contents

WSC's Pass Book for Current Account with Cox & Company, Pall Mall, London.

Dates: Jan 1921 - Jan 1923
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Bank Pass Books., 1898 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/21
Scope and Contents

WSC's bank pass books for account with Cox & Co., Pall Mall, London [3 volumes, one is blank and another undated].

Dates: 1898 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents 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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Exhibition of paintings, Canada, 1958., Sep 1957 - Aug 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/125
Scope and Contents Correspondents about the exhibition include: representatives of the Montreal Star newspaper; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Maxwell Aitken] on subjects including the record attendances of the exhibition; Joyce Hall of Hallmark cards (3); and Lionel Curran (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC]; a draft introduction to the catalogue by John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada; lists of the paintings in the exhibition;...
Dates: Sep 1957 - Aug 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Exhibition of paintings in the United States., 24 Jun 1957 - 10 Oct 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/122
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, proposing an exhibition of WSC's paintings; Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor]; James Rorimer, Director of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (3); Harry Truman, on his visit to the exhibition (2); Joyce Hall (of Hallmark cards); John Peck [Former Private Secretary to WSC, Director-General of British Information Services]; and various visitors to the exhibition on their impressions. Also includes copies of...
Dates: 24 Jun 1957 - 10 Oct 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents 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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents 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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Fladgate and Company: Miscellaneous., Jul 1955 - May 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/112
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Fladgate and Company, Solicitors, Pall Mall, London, [mainly with Anthony Moir]. File includes accounts for legal work undertaken; correspondence on the use of WSC's name and image by cigar manufacturers Cigarren-Friedrich and Company, Switzerland and Romeo y Julieta, Cuba, requests from "Life" for use of photographs of WSC and Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill and claims by a clinic for regenerative therapy that WSC had been treated by this method.

Dates: Jul 1955 - May 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Investments., Dec 1956 - May 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/108
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Investments., Jun 1960 - Jul 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/109
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents 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: Reproductions of paintings and miscellaneous, A to K., May 1956 - Apr 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/129
Scope and Contents Includes letters asking to reproduce images of WSC's paintings from organisations and individuals including: Joseph Thorndike of American Heritage Publishing Company (6); L Jordi of Argus South African Newspapers Limited (4); Lady Audrey Hylton-Foster, President of the British Red Cross (2); H Raban, Director of Frost and Reed Limited (3); Joyce Hall of Hallmark Cards; Anthony Gibbs of Anthony Gibbs and Phillips Limited (3); Herbert Marchant, British Consul General in San Francisco [United...
Dates: May 1956 - Apr 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Reproductions of paintings and miscellaneous, L to Z., May 1956 - Apr 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/130
Scope and Contents Includes letters asking to reproduce images of WSC's paintings from organisations and individuals including: the Listener; National Geographic Society; Reverend Michael Randolph, editor of the Reader's Digest; Edward Halliday, President of the Royal Society of British Artists; Harry Taylforth of the Skipton [Yorkshire] Building Society (4); Mrs R Hayward, Director of the Soho Gallery; the Sunday Times; and Sir John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery. Also includes 8 letters from...
Dates: May 1956 - Apr 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Requests for loans and exhibitions, A to H., Jul 1956 - May 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/127
Scope and Contents Includes letters asking to borrow or exhibit WSC's paintings from organisations and individuals including: Jose Antonio Quadros, Ambassador to Britain for Uraguay; George Littlejohn Cook, British Charge d'Affairs in Berne [Switzerland]; Edith, Lady Binns; the University of Bristol; Calgary Power; David Cole, Private Secretary to Lord Home [earlier Alexander Douglas-Home] Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations; Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor]; Sir Francis Fogarty; David [1st Lord...
Dates: Jul 1956 - May 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Requests for loans and exhibitions, I to Z., Jul 1956 - May 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/128
Scope and Contents Includes letters asking to borrow or exhibit WSC's paintings from organisations and individuals including: [Evelyn] Basil Boothby, Counsellor at the British Embassy in Brussels [Belgium]; Nishinippon Shimburi [a Japanese newspaper]; the University of Nottingham; Sir Peter Scarlett, British Ambassador to Norway; William MacTaggart, President of the Royal Scottish Academy; Edward Halliday, President of the Royal Society of British Artists; Sir Roderick Barclay, British Ambassador to Denmark;...
Dates: Jul 1956 - May 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Royal Academy annual exhibition., 06 May 1955 - 01 May 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/120
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with representatives of various newspapers and journals about the publication of images of paintings by WSC (exhibited at the Royal Academy) and donations to the South African War Veterans Association. Publications include: The Sphere, "London Calling", the Illustrated London News, the Daily Express, the Daily Sketch, the New York Times, Women's Journal, the Daily Mirror, County Life. Also includes; correspondence from Humphrey Brooke, Secretary of the Royal Academy;...
Dates: 06 May 1955 - 01 May 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Royal Academy special exhibition., 16 Nov 1957 - 14 Mar 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/121
Scope and Contents Correspondents about an exhibition of WSC's paintings at the Royal Academy include: J Patrickson on framing (4); Lettice Shillingford [earlier Lettice Marston, former secretary to WSC]; Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy (16); Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; "Geordie" George, 5th Duke of Sutherland; Humphrey Brooke, Secretary of the Royal Academy on subjects including the unsuitability of an introduction to the catalogue by Augustus John (16); and Anthony Moir [WSC's...
Dates: 16 Nov 1957 - 14 Mar 1959
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: v Colpix Records., Sep 1963 - Apr 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/119
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Breach of Copyright Correspondence between Anthony Montague-Browne, PS to WSC, Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors, Marshall, Vigoda & Bomser, Counselors at Law, New York, and the British Embassy, Washington, on breach of WSC's copyright by Colpix Records, who had produced a recording of WSC's wartime speeches in the United States.

Dates: Sep 1963 - Apr 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business and Financial: Wood, Willey and Company., Jan 1956 - Dec 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/113
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Correspondence with Wood, Willey and Company, Chartered Accountants [mainly with James Wood, Senior Partner]. File includes valuations of WSC's estate and balance sheets with income and expenditure accounts.

Dates: Jan 1956 - Dec 1959
Conditions Governing Access: Open