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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings., 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/489A-E

Scope and Contents

Correspondents (concerning birthday greetings to WSC) include: Sir [Sydney] Harold Gillett, Lord Mayor of London; [1st] Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham], Chairman of the Carlton Club; Ogden Reid [Helen Reid] of the New York Herald Tribune; George Manning, Mayor of Christchurch [New Zealand]; Sir Gerald Curteis, Deputy Master of Trinity House; [5th] Lord Chesham [earlier John Cavendish], Chancellor of the Primrose League; Sir Phillip Morris, Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University; Anthony Mallows Freeman, Baron of the Cinque Ports; David Astor, Editor of the Observer; Sir Charles Lillicrap, Prime Warden of the Company of Shipwrights; John Whitney [United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom] with a message from John Foster Dulles; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; Harry Truman; [John] Selwyn Lloyd; Sir Alexander King; Esmond [2nd Lord] Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; Sir Richard Pim; Denis Kelly; Charles Eade; Patrick Kinna; Oscar Nemon; Flora Guest; "Elsie" [Elizabeth] Lady Salisbury [earlier Elizabeth, Lady Cranbourne]; Dino Grandi; "Monty" [1st Lord Montgomery]; Davd Pitblado; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, High Commissioner for India in London; Arthur [1st Lord] Salter; Averell Harriman; Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana; Greta Garbo; Leslie Rowan; George Drew; "Bill" [Berkeley] Ormerod; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Great Britain; Walter Barrie, Chairman of Lloyds; [Arthur Waters], Editor of the News of the World; Graeme Finlay, MP for Epping [Essex]; Cecily ["Chips"] Gemmel; "Betty", Admiral Harold Stark; Sir Sadiq Mohammad, Ameer of Bahawalpur [Pakistan]; George Gordon Allen; Anton Dolin; Sir Charles Wheeler; Viorel Tilea; Anthony Bevir; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Jack Billmeir; Aidan Crawley; William, 1st Lord De L'Isle [earlier William Sidney and 6th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley]; Ian [1st Lord] Fraser [of Lonsdale]; Somerset Maugham; Sir Patrick Hannon; Sir [Alfred] Chester Beatty; Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook]; Sir Hartley Shawcross; Sir Eric Crankshaw; Stavros Niarchos; William Deakin; Alfred Bossom; Colonel Sir Stuart Mallinson; Sir Albert Braithwaite; Leslie Lever; Henry Laughlin; Frederick [1st Lord] Leathers; Charles de Gaulle; Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt]; [1st Lord] Hailes [earlier Patrick Buchan-Hepburn]; Antonio Giraudier; Arnold [1st Lord] Gridley; Sir Harry Brittain; Sir Alan Herbert; Desmond Flower, Chairman of Cassell and Company Limited; "Archie" [1st Lord Thurso, earlier Archibald Sinclair]; [1st] Lord Kilmuir [earlier David Maxwell-Fyfe]; Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York [United States] Times; Brigadier Sir John Smyth; Duncan Sandys; Bernard Baruch; Peregrine Churchill; David Sarnoff; Alan [Hodge]; Gwilym Lloyd George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; Harry [6th Lord] Rosebery [earlier Albert Primrose]; Queen Elizabeth II; Anthony Montague Browne; Max [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Max Aitken]; Lewis Douglas; Sir Hugh Tudor; 1st Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope; Clement [1st Lord] Attlee; Arthur Soames; Jacob Epstein; Edward Heath; Anthony Moir; Elizabeth Gilliatt; Sir Roger Hawkey; Celia Sandys; "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower]; Robert Menzies; Edwina Sandys; Konrad Adenauer; 10th Duke of Marlborough and Mary, Duchess of Marlborough; Charles [8th Lord Dynevor, earlier Charles Rhys] and Hope [Lady Dynevor, earlier Hope Rhys]; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Lady Juliet Duff; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Clarissa, Lady Eden [earlier Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, later Clarissa, Lady Avon]; Clare Sheridan; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman] and Winston Churchill; and Pamela [Lady] Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden].Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC]; and lists of telegrams received with details of responses sent.Other subjects include: arrangements for press photographs.

Dates

  • Creation: 1958

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

5 file(s) (391 loose folios)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Existence and Location of Copies

Folios 122 and 257: Copyright holders (De L'Isle and Moran) have withheld permission for online publication. Available at Churchill Archives Centre.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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