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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday greetings, 1899 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/491A-F

Scope and Contents

Correspondents (concerning birthday greetings and good wishes following his fall) include: Joyce Hall; Winston Guest; Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand; John Peck; John Wilson [later 2nd Lord Moran]; Sir Albert Richardson, former President of the Royal Academy; Herbert Haseltine; Henry Laughlin; Maria Callas; Esmond [2nd Lord] Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; [Sir Alfred] Chester Beatty; Averell Harriman; Sir Hugh Tudor; Elizabeth Gilliatt; Sir [Edward] Spears; [1st Lord] Jeffreys; Sir Patrick Hennessy; Antonio Giraudier; John Colville; Andre de Staercke; Odette Pol Roger; "Brookie" [1st Lord Alanbrooke, earlier Field Marshal Alan Brooke]; Princess Alice; Arabella Churchill; Nicholas Soames; Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden]; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; Princess Margaret; Sir Grantley Adams; Greta Garbo; "Chimp" [Christopher Soames]; Christian Herter, United States Secretary of State; Lewis Douglas; Spyros Skouras; Konrad Adenauer; Sir Patrick Hannon; Reginald Jones; George Gordon Allen; Tom O'Brien; [Oscar] Nemon; Gillian Maturin; Ralph Mansfield [later 1st Lord Sandhurst]; Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare; Walter Starkie; Arthur [1st Lord] Salter; "Elsie" [Elizabeth] Lady Salisbury [earlier Elizabeth, Lady Cranbourne]; [1st Lord] Bailleu, Chairman of the English-Speaking Union; John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada; George Drew, High Commissioner for Canada; Ian Fraser of the Conservative Research Department; "Bill" [Berkeley] Ormerod, Head of British Information Services, New York [United States]; Anthony Grover, Chairman of Lloyds; [Sir Gerard Curteis] Deputy Master of Trinity House; [1st] Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham], Chairman of the Carlton Club; Bernard Evans, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia; Sir Richard Glyn, Chairman of the United and Cecil Club; Brigadier Sir John Smyth, Chairman of the Victoria Cross Association; Martin Redmayne, Chief Whip; Leslie Lever; Anthony Mallows Freeman, Baron of the Cinque Ports; [8th] Lord Bathurst, Chancellor of the Primrose League; [Robert] James, Headmaster of Harrow School; [2nd] Lord Knollys, Chairman of the Council of the RAF Benevolent Fund; Eric Vansittart, Chairman of the 1940 Club; Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy; Herbert Samuel; Charles Eade; John Morrison [later 1st Lord Margadale], Chairman of the 1922 Committee; Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman]; Peter [1st Lord] Portal; "Clem" [1st Lord] Attlee; 10th Duke of Marlborough and Mary, Duchess of Marlborough; [1st Lord] Hailes [earlier Patrick Buchan-Hepburn]; Alfred Bossom; Denis Kelly; Somerset Maugham; [John] Selwyn Lloyd; Hartley Shawcross; "Sunny" [John, Lord Blandford, later 11th Duke of Marlborough]; David McFall; [Viorel] Tilea; Sir Sadiq Mohammad, Ameer of Bahawalpur [Pakistan]; John Whitney; William Deakin; Bryce [Nairn]; 1st Lord Brookeborough [earlier Basil Brooke]; Pandit Nehru; [General Walter] Bedell Smith; Queen Elizabeth II; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Charles de Gaulle; Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen, Lord Mayor of London; Constance Soames; Anthony Moir; Walter Nash; Anthony Montague Browne; David Pitblado; Stavros Niarchos; 1st Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope; Celia Sandys; Lady Juliet Duff; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Aristotle Onassis; Robert Menzies; Roger Hawkey; Colonel Sir Stuart Mallinson; "Mollie", Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch [earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith]; [1st Lord] Leathers; Paul Maze; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson]; Arnold [1st Lord] Gridley; Emma Soames; R A Butler; "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne and Robert Gascoyne Cecil]; Sir Harry Hylton-Foster; Harry Truman; Duncan Sandys; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; Nancy [Duchess of Westminster]; Arabella [Churchill]; "Archie" [1st Lord Thurso, earlier Archibald Sinclair]; Peregrine Churchill; Sir Herbert Cohen; Domini, Lady Crosfield; "Betty", Admiral Harold Stark; Prince Ranier of Monaco; John Ireland; David Sarnoff; Percy Cox; Sir Richard Pim; Anthony Bevir; Anthony Nutting; Sir Francis Whitmore; Kathleen Hill; Sir Eric Crankshaw; 12th Lord Airlie [earlier Lord Ogilvy]; Roberto Arias; John G Churchill; [1st Lord] Alexander [of Tunis]; [1st] Lord Kilmuir [earlier David Maxwell-Fyfe]; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Peter Thorneycroft; Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook]; and [1st Lord] Tenby [earlier Gwilym Lloyd George].Also includes: copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC], Catherine Snelling and Doreen Pugh [Secretaries to WSC]; paintings; a photograph of WSC issued to the Special Police after his escape during the Boer War (1899); and a photograph of John G Churchill.

Dates

  • Creation: 1899 - 1960

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

6 file(s) (475 loose folios)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Existence and Location of Copies

Folios 21 and 394: Copyright holder (Lord Moran) has withheld permission for online publication. Available at Churchill Archives Centre.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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