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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Cinque Ports K-Z., 1941 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/355

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers on WSC's duties as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, including: William Surrey Dane, on message on opening of new wing of Lloyd Memorial Home, Deal, 1951; The Borough of Lydd, Kent, on the Boundary Commission Act, and local government boundaries, 1949, and Lydd Church Restoration Fund, 1951-52; The Borough of New Romney, on the Justices of the Peace Act, and the loss of the Commission of the Peace by small boroughs, with letters on the subject from David Maxwell Fyfe (later Lord Kilmuir), 1950, goodwill visit to Germany by party of Cinque Port Mayors, 1950-51 and return visit by German Ober - Burgomeisters, 1954; The Cinque Ports Old Comrades Association, on election as President, 1945, with gift of tie; Field Marshal Lord Birdwood, (2), invitation to become President of the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, 1945; The 4th/5th (Cinque Ports) Bn, Royal Sussex Regiment, on duties as Honorary Colonel, 1947-55; The Rye and District Bonfire Society, 1953; St Mary's Church Dover, on support for restoration appeal, 1953, with copy of printed Guide to the Church; The Mayor of Sandwich, asking if he would be willing to attend Cinque Ports function in the town in the autumn, 1954 (regretted); Major John Sherwood, (2) offering his services as ADC to WSC as Lord Warden, with signed reply from WSC (not sent) and note from Anthony Bevir, Patronage Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1945; Governor of Sir Roger Manwood's School, Sandwich, Kent, on appointment of Governor, with note from Anthony Bevir, Patronage Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1946; Dover Division Conservative Unionist Association, on possible use of the grounds of Walmer Castle for fete, 1947, the Mayor of Deal, on visit by French Mayors to Walmer Castle, 1947, the Ministry of Works on decision to open the grounds of Walmer Castle to the Public, 1951, and request from the BBC to make a radio broadcast from the Castle, 1955; Lord John Hope, (later Lord Glendevon) Minister of Works, on request for a portrait of WSC to hang at Walmer Castle, enclosing photograph of Oswald Birley's portrait in the Palace of Westminster, 1961; The British Museum (Natural History), request for whales, porpoises and other Cetacea stranded in the Cinque Ports area (the property of the Lord Warden) to be given to the Museum, 1947; The Zoological Society of London, on donation of two albino brown squirrels from the grounds of Walmer Castle to London Zoo, 1948.

Dates

  • Creation: 1941 - 1957

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 unbound file, 389 items)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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