Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings., 1959
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (concerning birthday greetings to WSC) include: Arthur Mann; Caryl Ramsden; Fritz Kreisler; Anton Dolin; Leonard Marsland Gander, Chairman of the Press Club; David McFall; Malcolm Sargent; Sir Harry Brittain; Eric Gander Dower; Sir Arthur MacNalty; Samuel Salmon, Chairman of the London Municipal Society; Sir Robert Bird; Leslie Lever; Arnold [1st Lord] Gridley; Gerald O'Brien; "Brookie" [1st Lord Alanbrooke, earlier Alan Brooke]; Horatia Seymour; Arthur [1st Lord] Salter; Eleanor Roosevelt; Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi; Colonel Sir Stuart Mallinson; Ivor Bulmer-Thomas; Esmond [2nd Lord] Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; Oscar Nemon; Frances, Lady Lloyd George; Lieutenant-Colonel Nawab Malik Khan Tiwana; Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac; Sir Alexander King; Frank Clarke; Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope; Sir Roland Welensky, High Commissioner for Rhodesia and Nyasaland [now Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi]; "Betty", Admiral Harold Stark; Arthur Sulzberger; Augustus John; "Sunny" [John, Lord Blandford, later 11th Duke of Marlborough] and Susan [Lady Blandford]; Vivien Olivier [earlier Vivien Leigh] and Laurence Olivier; Sir Thomas Moore; Alan Hodge; 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; Sir Alan Herbert; Desmond Flower, Chairman of Cassell and Company Limited; William Randolph Hearst; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Douglas Fairbanks; Clyde Hewlett; Sir Walter Pollen; Douglas Glover; Sir Patrick Kinna; Mildred, Lady Scarsdale [earlier Mildred, Lady Curzon]; [1st] Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham], Chairman of the Carlton Club; Sir Gerald Curteis, Deputy Master of Trinity House; [8th] Lord Bathurst, Chancellor of the Primrose League; "Cranckie" [Sir Edward Crankshaw]; Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; Thomas Hazlerigg; Julian Amery; Sir Richard Pim; Anthony Nutting; Maria Callas; Constance Soames; [1st Lord] Freyberg; "Clem" [1st Lord] Attlee; Charles Eade; Sir Joseph Haygarth; Odette Pol Roger; Paul Reynaud; Stavros Niarchos; Sir [Alfred] Chester Beatty; Gillian Maturin; Hugh [Frewen]; Viola Garvin; Sir Hugh Foot; Sir Sadiq Mohammad, Ameer of Bahawalpur [Pakistan]; Sir Patrick Hannon; Tom O'Brien; Robert Menzies; William, 1st Lord De L'Isle [earlier William Sidney and 6th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley]; Sir Patrick Hennessy; Charles [8th Lord Dynevor, earlier Charles Hope] and Hope [Lady Dynevor, earlier Hope Rhys]; Bryce Nairn; Sir Cyril Hinshelwood; Sir Philip Morris, Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University; [Robert] James, Headmaster of Harrow School; Edward Heath; "Geordie" [5th Duke of] Sutherland [earlier George Sutherland Leveson-Gower]; [2nd] Lord Knollys, Chairman of the Council of the RAF Benevolent Fund; [John] Selwyn Lloyd; Herbert Samuel; Geoffrey Shakespeare; Gladwyn Jebb; Aristotle Onassis; Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman]; Andre de Staercke; Peregrine Churchill; Antonio Giraudier; "Elsie" [Elizabeth] Lady Salisbury [earlier Elizabeth, Lady Cranbourne]; Anthony Grover, Chairman of Lloyds; Roger Hawkey; [5th] Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence]; Hugh Sherwood; Hartley Shawcross; Percy Cox; Paul Maze; Arthur Soames; "Willy" Sax [supplier of paint to WSC]; [1st] Lord Iliffe; Leslie Rowan; William Deakin; "Mollie", Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch [earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith]; Peter [1st Lord] Portal; Anthony Montague Browne; 9th Lord Sandwich [earlier Lord Hinchingbrooke]; [1st Lord] Tenby [earlier Gwilym Lloyd George]; Anthony Head; Dwight Eisenhower; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Clarissa, Lady Eden [earlier Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, later Clarissa, Lady Avon]; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Sir Percy Rugg; John Diefenbaker; Constantine Karamanlis; Harry Truman; Jack Billmeir; Brigadier Sir John Smyth, Chairman of the Victoria Cross Association; Eric Vansittart, Chairman of the 1940 Club; [1st Lord] Jeffreys; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; King Olav of Norway; Sir Fitzroy Maclean; Greta Garbo; Konrad Adenauer; Lady Diana Cooper [later Diana, Lady Norwich]; Sir Herbert Cohen; Bernard Baruch; [1st Lord] Alexander [of Tunis]; Anthony Moir; Elizabeth Gilliatt; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Joseph Sykes, Acting Governor of Bermuda; Sir Edmond Stockdale; Jean Chauvel; George Ward; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Queen Elizabeth II; "Bill" [Berkeley] Ormerod, Head of British Information Services, New York [United States]; Lewis Douglas; Viorel Tilea; Frederick Cripps [later 3rd Lord Parmoor]; Peter Masefield, President of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Ogden Reid [Helen Reid] of the New York Herald Tribune; John Morrison [later 1st Lord Margadale], Chairman of the 1922 Committee; George Gordon Allen; Lady Juliet Duff; Arabella Churchill; Celia Sandys; Wilfred Kitching, General of the Salvation Army; Cyril Black; [Henry] Boston, Speaker, Sierra Leone; Agatha, Lady Hindlip; David Sarnoff; Pandit Nehru; [Alfred] White, Agent General for Tasmania; Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; Martin Redmayne, Chief Whip; 10th Duke of Marlborough and Mary, Duchess of Marlborough; Benno Moiseiwitch; Pope John XXIII; [1st] Lord Kilmuir [earlier David Maxwell-Fyfe]; Averell Harriman; Sir John Cockroft, Master of Churchill College; Margaret, Lady Birkenhead [earlier Margaret Smith]; John Whitney; Denis Kelly; Alfred Bossom; "Archie" [1st Lord Thurso [earlier Archibald Sinclair].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 Doreen Pugh [Secretary to WSC]; press cuttings; poems and drawings.
Dates
- Creation: 1959
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Extent
7 file(s) (579 loose folios)
Language of Materials
English
External Documents
Existence and Location of Copies
Folio 328: Copyright holder (De L'Isle) has withheld permission for online publication. Available at Churchill Archives Centre.
Repository Details
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