Public and Political: General: Patronage Lig-Ly., Apr 1952 - 1963
Scope and Contents
File includes correspondence with: The town of Lignieres-en-Berry, offering honorary citizenship, 1956 (declined); Lions International, on presentation of a lion cub "Rusty" to London Zoo, 1955-56, with letter from L Harrison Matthews, Director of the Zoological Society of London, on the condition of WSC's other lion "Rota"; The Royal Society of Literature, particularly Freddy, 2nd Lord Birkenhead, Chairman, (2), on election as Vice-President, and R A Butler, President, on award of "Companion of Literature", C.Litt, 1952, 1961; correspondence on the The Lloyd George Memorial Committee, particularly letters from Walter Elliott, Chairman, Nigel Birch, Lord John Hope (later Lord Glendevon), and Hugh Molson, Ministers of Works, committee minutes, draft report, photographs of head of James Bateman by E R Bevan, statue of King George VI and the Alcock and Brown Memorial by William Macmillan and statue of Field Marshal Jan Smuts by Jacob Epstein, 1955-60; Lloyds Bank, invitation to lunch with Pall Mall Committee, 1954; Sir Walter Barrie, Chairman, Lloyds of London, invitation to opening of new building, 1957; The City and Guilds of London Institute (F Handley Page, Chairman), asking for support from WSC's Birthday Trust, 1956; The City of London Society, invitation to annual dinner, 1956; London County Council, on commemorative blue plaque to Lord Randolph Churchill on 2 Connaught Place, London, 1962; Marshal of the RAF Lord Portal of Hungerford on portrait of WSC for The Dominion Students Hall Trust, London House, 1962; H J Randall, Chairman, London Electricity Board, on presentation to Colonel John Parr-Morley, 1954; The London Library, on election as Honorary Life Member, 1954, and with Rupert Hart-Davis, Chairman, on support For appeal for funds, 1959; The Lord Altrincham Memorial Fund, asking for donation, 1957; Carlos Lottermoser, asking for autograph, 1962; Lord Halifax (4) on the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Louis Sterling Memorial Fund, 1958.
Dates
- Creation: Apr 1952 - 1963
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Extent
1 file(s) (1 unbound file, 194 folios)
Language of Materials
English
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