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Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer (1885-1977, née Hozier, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1885 - 1977

Admin / Family structure

Wife of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:

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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
Scope and Contents 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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents 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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speech notes for "Grace in Russia 1945" on accompanying CSC

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAMB 1/4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This small collection of papers comprises Grace Hamblin's notes for speeches about her work for Sir Winston Churchill and his family. She recalls getting her position as secretary and what it was like to work for Churchill. Churchill Archives Centre also owns Grace Hamblin's OBE which is on permanent loan to the National Trust, Chartwell.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers at Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Conference Diaries of Flight Sergeant G. Green

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GREE
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of notebooks containing diaries of the Atlantic Meeting, Washington, Quebec, Cairo and Yalta conferences. Green tends to record events from his own day but when relevant these include encounters with Churchill and other key figures.

Dates: 1941 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"The Daily Graphic: Mr Churchill's Wedding Day", 12 Sep 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/104D/150
Scope and Contents

Edition featuring the wedding of WSC and CSC. Includes: photos of the bridesmaids and of CSC; of Blenheim Palace, where the couple would begin their honeymoon; of WSC; and a fashion article illustrated with sketches about CSC's gowns.Printed.

Dates: 12 Sep 1908
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT
Scope and Contents The collection includes: papers and correspondence, photographs and press cuttings plus material on household and domestic administration. It contains the letters exchanged between Sir Winston (WSC) and Lady Churchill (CSC) from 1908, the time of their engagement, until 1963, shortly before Sir Winston's death (1965). This collection was used by Lady Soames in the writing of her mother's biography and it provides a splendid, detailed and often very moving record of a remarkable...
Dates: 1884 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Katharine Broome

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KBRM
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook and later memoir from Mrs Broome's time with the Churchills.

Dates: 1954 - 2019-08
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Lady Soames

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL
Scope and Contents Includes: research material for books on the Churchill family, including originals and copies of family correspondence, particularly MS's own correspondence with her mother; personal and office diaries; papers relating to MS's time with her husband in Paris and Rhodesia; correspondence; photographs, both relating to MS's own career, and those which she collected as source material for her books on the Churchill family; speeches; papers relating to visits and lectures undertaken by MS on...
Dates: 1828 - 2014
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sarah Churchill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SCHL
Scope and Contents

Comprising correspondence, literary papers, photographs, press cuttings and film.
With some correspondence with Mary Soames after Sarah Churchill's death, about her literary papers and estate, 1983-4, 1988.

Dates: 1914 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR, CHUR and CHAQ
Scope and Contents The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into three sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR), with some additional material (CHAQ). Together, the three sets of papers cover the following major areas: Personal (CHAR 1, CHUR 1 and CHAQ 1/1 and 2/1), 1884-1965 The papers of Churchill as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his...
Dates: The majority of files date from the 1870s to 1965.
Conditions Governing Access: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 13 Sep 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/27/86
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC (Blenheim Palace) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that "Clemmie" [Clementine Hozier, later CSC] is "vy happy and beautiful", thanks her for her support "at a critical period in my emotional development"; expresses relief that the [wedding] ceremony is over and that George [Cornwallis-West] had said that "he could wish me no better wife or happier days than he had found in you".

Dates: 13 Sep 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 20 Sep 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/27/86A
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC ([Italy] on the notepaper of the Board of Trade) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] discussing the sale of the house at Bolton Street and saying that he and CSC are happy [on their honeymoon] and have "loitered and loved - a good & serious occupation for which the histories furnish respectable precedents".

Dates: 20 Sep 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/204A/55
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to HM Ambassador Moscow [Soviet Union, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr] marked "Personal and Top Secret" passing on message to CSC stating that he was delighted to receive her letters from Cairo [Egypt]; that he has been very busy; and that because the telegrams are coded and decoded he does not lengthen them by expressions he puts in letters. Initialled. Carbon copy.

Dates: 03 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/204A/56
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Telegram from WSC to HM Ambassador Moscow [Soviet Union, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr] marked "Personal and Top Secret" passing on message to CSC stating that he was delighted to receive her letters from Cairo [Egypt]; that he has been very busy; and that because the telegrams are coded and decoded he does not lengthen them by expressions he puts in letters. Initialled. Carbon copy.

Dates: 03 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [03] [Apr] [1945]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/204A/57
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to HM Ambassador Moscow [Soviet Union, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr] marked "Personal and Top Secret" passing on message to CSC stating that he was delighted to receive her letters from Cairo [Egypt]; that he has been very busy; and that because the telegrams are coded and decoded he does not lengthen them by expressions he puts in letters. Initialled manuscript.

Dates: [03] [Apr] [1945]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 29 Jan [1912]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/80/4
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Letter from "Clemmie" [CSC](Admiralty, Whitehall) to "B M" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she says that the children have bronchitis, expresses sympathy that she has influenza, comments "as for poor Winston [WSC] his sorrows & anxieties are known to you by the halfpenny Press" and says hat she hopes that she is enjoying her stay with Madame van Andre.

Dates: 29 Jan [1912]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 20 Aug 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/78/68
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Letter from [1st Lord] Redesdale (Batsford Park, Moreton in Marsh [Gloucestershire]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he was impressed by WSC's "winning ways" and expresses pleasure at WSC's future marriage to Clementine [Hozier, later CSC].

Dates: 20 Aug 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 17 Aug 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/78/69
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Letter from Blanche [Lady] Airlie (Airlie Castle, Clythe [Scotland]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] congratulating her on WSC's engagement to Clementine [Hozier, later CSC] and commenting on her fondness for Clementine.

Dates: 17 Aug 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 04 Jan 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/1-5
Scope and Contents

Letter from CSC, 2 Sussex Square, London, to WSC, on her health, and that of the children, asking him not to open a letter written to him on "Black Monday" [2 January].

Dates: 04 Jan 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Jan 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/6
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Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes to WSC, on her holiday at Cannes.

Dates: 27 Jan 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [29 Jan 1922]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/7
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Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes, France, to WSC, on her holiday at Cannes, also criticising him for his speech attacking the behaviour of the Liberals "in peace as well as in War", commenting that the "Liberals (nearly all) behaved splendidly in the War, which is more credit to them than it is to the Tories who revel in slaughter".

Dates: [29 Jan 1922]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Feb 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/10-14
Scope and Contents

Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes, France, to WSC, on success in Cannes tennis tournament, and on her decision to tell her mother and Venetia Montagu about her pregnancy, also on building work at 2 Sussex Square, and account of conversation with Lord Derby on Lord and Lady Curzon, describing Curzon as a "fat sneak".

Dates: 03 Feb 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Feb 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/18-19
Scope and Contents

Letter from CSC to WSC, on her holiday in the South of France, particularly on tennis tournament at Nice, also commenting on the Irish situation.

Dates: 10 Feb 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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