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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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings., 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/455
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Correspondents (concerning birthday wishes to WSC) include: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; "Betty", Admiral Harold Stark; Robert Hudson; Prince Mohammed Ali; Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana; Mary, Duchess of Beaufort [earlier Lady Mary Cambridge]; Sir Kenneth Clark; Frank Sawyers; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Horatia Seymour; Peter Fraser; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey] and Duncan Sandys; Lady Lilian Grenfell [earlier Lady Lilian Spencer-Churchill]; "Freddy"...
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1948
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings., 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/456A-B
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Correspondents (concerning birthday wishes to WSC) include: Viorel Tilea; "Crankie" [Sir Edward Crankshaw]; Reginald Fellowes; Sir James Dunn; Major-General Ernest Walford; Gustav Rasmussen, Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs; Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister; Leslie Rowan; Thomas Dewey; George Drew; "Bill" [Berkeley] Ormerod, Head of British Information Services, New York [United States]; "Betty", Admiral Harold Stark; Averell [Harriman]; Mackenzie King; William Mabane; Ralph...
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1949
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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...
Dates:
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: Golden wedding congratulations: private and personal, patronage and Conservative Associations, etc., 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/485A-E
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Correspondents congratulating WSC and CSC on their Golden wedding anniversary include: [Richard] Michael Fraser and Percy Cohen of the Conservative Research Department; Ann, Lady Gammans for the Hornsey [London] Conservative Association; Donald Cowling, Chairman for the Leeds Conservative Association; Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott, Chairman of the Yorkshire Conservative Association; Max Bemrose, Chairman of the East Midlands Conservative and Unionist Association; Norman Cadzow, Governor of the...
Dates:
1958
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Golden wedding: press arrangements., Aug 1958 - Nov 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/487
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Correspondents concerning requests from the press for interviews with and photographs of WSC and CSC include George Christ, Parliamentary Liaison Officer for the Conservative and Unionist Party.Also includes: press statements from WSC and CSC; commemorative issues of the Primrose League Gazette and the Kent Messenger; and notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC], Doreen Pugh, Jill Lynam and Grace Hamblin [Private Secretaries to WSC].
Dates:
Aug 1958 - Nov 1958
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Good wishes in illness., Feb 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/488
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Correspondents (expressing sympathy at WSC's illness) include: Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, President of the Empire Day Movement; Sir Frank Foster, Vice-President of the Chigwell and Ongar [Essex] Conservative Association; Sir Phillip Morris, Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University; Sir Patrick Hannon, Vice-President of the Carlton Club; Hugh Bullock; Sir Alfred Bossom on behalf of the Kent Local government conference meeting; Sir Charles Taylor, for the Eastbourne [Sussex] Constitutional...
Dates:
Feb 1958
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Knight of the Garter: congratulations., 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/466
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Correspondents include: John Graham, Lord Provost of Aberdeen [Scotland]; Sydney Tapper-Jones, Town Clerk of Cardiff [Wales]; [1st] Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson], Chairman of the Carlton Club; James Farley, Chairman of the Board, Coca Cola Export Corporation; Harriet Cohen; Noel Coward; [Frederick] Potter, Mayor of Deal [Kent]; Sir William Darling, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Scottish Conservative Club; [Theodore] Feilden; Keith Feiling; "Gracie" Fields; Sir...
Dates:
1953
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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: Greetings: Nobel Prize: congratulations., 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/468A-C
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Correspondents (congratulating WSC on receiving the Nobel Prize for literature) include: Winthrop Aldrich, United States Ambassador to Great Britain; Andrew Stark, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary; Olaf Nobel; [James] Vincent Sheean; Joyce Hall; Francois Mauriac; Sir Alexander Korda; Eugene Meyer; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; King Peter II of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Prince Bertil of...
Dates:
1953
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Order of Merit: congratulations., Dec 1945 - Jan 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/450
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Correspondents (congratulating WSC on receiving the Order of Merit) include: Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese; Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe [later 1st Lord Killmuir], Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Nazi war criminals; Charles Peat; General Sir Reginald Wingate; Robert Menzies; the Maharajah of Nepal; the Maharajah of Kashmir [region in India, China and Pakistan]; the Maharajah of Bikaner [India]; the Maharajah of Jodhpur [India]; Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India];...
Dates:
Dec 1945 - Jan 1946
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Public and Political: General: Kitchener of Khartoum film., 18 May 1938 - 20 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/353
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Correspondents on the film include: Curtis Brown [Managing Director] of Curtis Brown Limited, International Publishing Bureau, asking WSC to act as adviser for a film on the life of 1st Lord Kitchener (2); Henrietta Hilton, Manager, Film Department, Curtis Brown Limited, on WSC's financial terms for the film, his contract with Premier Sound Film Productions Limited, and widening publicity for the film (9).Also includes: note from Curtis Brown Limited on the proposal for the film; copy of a...
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18 May 1938 - 20 Dec 1938
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Public and Political: General: League of Nations Union., 03 Apr 1936 - 02 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/286
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Correspondents include: Sir Austen Chamberlain on subjects including views on colonial policy expressed in a League of Nations Union pamphlet, WSC's defence deputations to the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] and refusing to sign the union's declaration of its aims (2); 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil], President, League of Nations Union and Joint-President, International Peace Campaign, on subjects including his vote for rearmament in the House of Lords, the difficulty...
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03 Apr 1936 - 02 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: League of Nations Union., 23 Jun 1938 - 06 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/345
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Correspondents on the League of Nations Union include: 2nd Lord Lytton, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil], President of the League of Nations Union, on subjects including a proposed meeting at the Albert Hall [London] (2); Robert Hunter.Other subjects include: meetings of the League of Nations Union; requests for WSC to give speeches.Also includes: print of League of Nations Union policy; copy of a...
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23 Jun 1938 - 06 Dec 1938
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Public and Political: general: Lord Alfred Douglas libel actions., 1900 - 1923
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/127
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Papers relating to the legal proceedings in 1922-23 against Lord Alfred Douglas arising from his allegation that WSC had issued a false communique about the Battle of Jutland to allow Jewish financiers led by Sir Ernest Cassel to make a profit on the stock market.
Dates:
1900 - 1923
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Public and Political: General: miscellaneous correspondence., Jan 1943 - Jan 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/461
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Correspondents include: [Charles] Wood [former literary assistant of WSC] on his employment prospects; Maharaja of Nepal [?Shamsher Jang] and [Sir] Sadiq Mohammed, Nawab of Bahawalpur [India, later Pakistan] on WSC's health; [Francis] Harrison, [Assistant Principal] India Office, on replying to the Nawab of Bahawalpur; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada [in United Kingdom], on WSC autographing photographs for him; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] on a letter by him in the New York...
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Jan 1943 - Jan 1944
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Public and Political: General: miscellaneous correspondence., Mar 1941 - Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/415
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Correspondents include: Queen Mary asking WSC to autograph a photograph; [6th] Lord Hood [Private Secretary to the Minister of Information] on supplying a F Hourani with information on WSC's ancestor Colonel Charles Churchill; [Emmanuel] Tsouderos, Prime Minister of Greece, and James Gardiner, Canadian Minister of Agriculture, sending Christmas and New Year greetings. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from Prime Minister's Private Secretaries "J R C" [John Colville], "E M W"...
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Mar 1941 - Dec 1941
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Public and Political: General: New Commonwealth Society for the promotion of International Law and Order: correspondence mainly with General Secretary N B Foot., Jan 1939 - Oct 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/377
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Subjects include: Society publications, including publishing the text of a broadcast by WSC, [16] October 1938; involving Emile Bure in the Society; the Society's International Summer School and Delegate Conference; a meeting of the British Parliamentary Group; a suggested letter to be sent by sympathetic MPs to newspapers in their constituency; Hungarian members; a Europa Union Congress.Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC's secretaries including [Kathleen] Hill.
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Jan 1939 - Oct 1939
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Public and Political: General: Palestine., 20 Dec 1937 - 11 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/348
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Correspondents on Palestine include: Colonel Angus McNeill [former Commander of Palestine Gendarmerie] on continuing terrorism in Palestine, the difficulties of policing the area, and the disbanding of the Gendarmerie; Gerald Creasy, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (2); Leo Amery on the advantages of continuing with the policy of partition, and on terrorism; Josiah Wedgwood on "Great Contemporaries", the Jewish attitude to Britain's policy on Palestine, asking...
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20 Dec 1937 - 11 Nov 1938
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Public and Political: General: Patronage., Jan 1944 - Dec 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/562A-B
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Correspondents concerning honours to be given to WSC, or tributes made to him include: [John] Nicholas Henderson, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary (3), Pierson Dixon, Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary, Guy Millard of the Foreign Office and Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary advising WSC on overseas honours; Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill]; Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador to Brussels [Belgium]; Edgar Clements, Mayor of...
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Jan 1944 - Dec 1945
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Churchill College, Cambridge: correspondence on special subjects, L-Z and miscellaneous., Mar 1958 - Jul 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/571A-B
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Correspondents include: Major-General John Hamilton, Bursar of Churchill College (17); 1st Lord Tedder, Chancellor of Cambridge University (3); Sir John Cockcroft, Master of Churchill College (7); Anthony Phelps, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Sir Shane Leslie; Robert Tollast (7) on arrangements to paint a portrait of WSC from photographs (7); Alexander Fleck, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Limited (3); 1st Lord Weeks; Sir Alexander Todd; Brian Downs; 1st Lord...
Dates:
Mar 1958 - Jul 1963
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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: Cinque Ports A-D., 1941 - 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/353
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Correspondence and Papers on WSC's duties as Lord Warden of The Cinque Ports, including: The War Office on appointment as Honorary Colonel of the 89th (Cinque Ports) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1941-42, with note by WSC, commenting that he was becoming Colonel of too many regiments, but that he did not want to hurt the feelings of a unit serving in the Middle East; Lord Beauchamp, (2) offering his father's full-dress uniform as Lord Warden, 1946 (declined); Anthony Bevir,...
Dates:
1941 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Open