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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings: various bodies in the United Kingdom and overseas, Private Secretary replies., 1954 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/473A-C

Scope and Contents

Correspondents (concerning 80th birthday greetings to WSC) include: Edward Glanvill Benn, President of the Thirty Club of London; Colonel Sir Harold Templar-Smith, Chairman of the Gas Council; Sir Stanley Rous, Secretary of the Football Association; Barnett Janner, President of the British Zionist Association; Sir Robert Chance, President of the Carlisle [Cumberland, Scotland] Chambers of Trade and Commerce; [Arthur] Barnes, President of the Liverpool Cotton Association; [Charles] Vignoles, Managing Director of Shell Mex and British Petroleum; Sir Guy Garrod, President of the RAF Reserves Club; William Coombs, President of the Officers (Merchant Navy) Federation; Sir George Harvie-Watt, President of the Caledonian Club; George Leslie Wates, Chairman of the Woolwich Building Society; Brian Roberts, President of the Institute of Journalists; Norman Goodall, Chairman of the Congregational Unions of England and Wales; John Denholm, President of the Chamber of Shipping; Reginald Cudlipp, Editor of the News of the World; Thomas Lund, Secretary of the Law Society; John Graham and Terence Grady, Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary; Major-General Daniel Spry, Director of the Boy Scouts World Bureau; Sir [George] Leighton Seager of the National Liberal Forum; Walter Barrie, Chairman of Lloyds; [1st] Lord Baillieu, Chairman of the English-Speaking Union; Myra Gibson of the League of Remembrance; Sir [William] Robert Fraser, Chairman of the Civil Service Sports Council; Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, Chairman of the Victoria League; General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster, President of the British Legion (Scotland); Major-General Vivian Thomas, President of the Royal Marines Association; Sir Archibald Forbes, Chairman of the Iron and Steel Board; Reverend Walter Matthews, Dean of St Paul's Westminster [London]; Dame Vera Laughton Matthews of the Association of WRENS; David Prosser of the Cardiff [Wales] Western Mail; Colonel Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith of the Royal Scots Fusiliers; Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Denning of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association; General Sir Frank Messervy of Hodson's Horse Officers Association; Vice-Admiral Sir John Edgell; Major-General Nigel Duncan, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment; Sir Kenneth Sinclair, Chairman of the Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] Harbour Board; Colonel Sir William Worsley, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire; Sir William Boulton, Secretary General to the Council of the Bar; James Turner [later 1st Lord Netherthorpe], President of the National Farmers' Union; Reverend Ernest Benson Perkins, Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council; Sir John Braithwaite, Chairman of the Stock Exchange; Sir Edward Peacock of the National Council of Social Services; Edward Martelll, Chairman of the Winston Churchill 80th Birthday Presentation Fund; Stephen McAdden, Chairman of the Southend-on-Sea [Essex] Old Peoples Dinner Fund; General Sir Robert Haining, Surrey small-bore rifles Association; [2nd] Lord Kindersley, Chairman of the Officers' Association; Douglas Glover, M P for Ormskirk [Lancashire]; Wilfred Kitching, Chairman of the Salvation Army; and [1st] Lord Gowrie [earlier Alexander Hore-Ruthven, Chairman of the Forces Help Society.Also includes copies of correspondence from Gwen Davies, Magdalene Stenhouse and L Rushbrook [Secretaries to WSC], Anthony Montague Browne and David Pitblado [Private Secretaries to WSC]; and newspaper cuttings.

Dates

  • Creation: 1954 - 1955

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

3 file(s) (754 loose folios)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Existence and Location of Copies

Folio 339: Copyright holder (Trinity Mirror for the Western Mail) has withheld permission for online publication. Available at Churchill Archives Centre.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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