Public and Political: General: Various: Coalition medallions: Correspondence and lists., Jun 1945 - Oct 1948
Scope and Contents
Correspondents concerning medallions presented by WSC to those who served in the 1940-1945 coalition government include: A Rushworth-Lund (3) and D Spink, Director (4) of Spink and Son Limited concerning the manufacture and engraving of the medallions; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; "Alex" [Sir Harold Alexander]; Jan Smuts; Thomas Cooper; Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to King George VI; Malcolm MacDonald; James Reid; Richard Casey; Duncan [Sandys]; George Garro-Jones [later 1st Lord Trefgarne]; John McEwan; "Archie" [Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso]; Dingle Foot; Lord Birnam [earlier Sir David King Murray]; Lord Balfour of Inchrye; "Brab" [1st Lord Brabazon]; Richard Pilkington; [Walter] Robert Perkins; George Tomlinson; [4th Lord] Normanby [earlier Lord Mulgrave]; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes]; [5th Lord] Listowel [earlier Lord Ennismore]; Charles Peat; Sir Stafford Cripps; Charles Waterhouse; John Wilmot; Thomas Smith; Osbert Peake [later 1st Lord Ingleby]; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley]; A V Alexander; Mackenzie King; "Dickie" [1st Lord Mountbatten]; [1st Lord] Cunningham of Hyndhope; "Brookie" [1st Lord Alanbrooke, earlier Alan Brooke]; Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound; [1st Lord] Portal; Robert Knox; Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]; Arthur Henderson [later Lord Rowley]; Sir Benjamin Smith; David [2nd Lord Beatty]; [1st Lord] Hankey; John Williams; Victor [?2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Victor Hope and Lord Hopetown]; Leo Amery; Wilfred Paling; Nevil Beechman; Geoffrey Shakespeare; [5th Lord] Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence]; Joseph Westwood; Sir Austin Hudson; Cedric Drewe; [7th] Lord Clifden [earlier Francis Agar-Robartes]; [16th Duke of] Norfolk [earlier Lord Arundel]; [1st Lord] Portal [earlier Wyndham Portal]; Thomas Dugdale; [Gerard] Spencer Summers; Robert Grimston; William Morrison [later 1st Lord Dunrossil]; "Jimmy" [James Rothschild]; Charles Edwards; Allan Chapman; Quintin Hogg [later Lord Hailsham of Marylebone]; Ronald Cross; Clement Attlee; John [1st Lord] Simon; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton; Oliver Stanley; Philip [1st Lord Swinton, earlier Philip Cunliffe-Lister]; Brendan [Bracken]; [William] Jowitt; [4th Lord] Templemore [earlier Arthur Chichester]; [1st Lord] Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; "Top" [3rd Lord Selbourne, earlier Lord Wolmer]; Sir Andrew Duncan; Edward [1st Lord] Halifax [earlier Edward Wood]; Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; Henry Willink; William Whiteley; "Scribe" [1st Lord Altrincham, earlier Edward Grigg]; Harry Crookshank; Sir William Boulton; [1st Lord] Alness [earlier Robert Munro]; George Hall; Herbert Morrison; Ellen Wilkinson; Ernest Thurtle; Henry [1st Lord] Croft; Sir Robert Carey; [5th Lord] Fortescue [earlier Lord Ebrington]; Ernest Brown; Arthur Greenwood; [1st Lord] Caldecote [earlier Thomas Inskip]; "Jay" [1st Lord] Llewellin; Sir Arthur Young; [1st Lord] Leathers; Florence Horsburgh; Malcolm McCorquodale; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd]; John [1st Lord] Reith; Paul Emrys-Evans; George Hicks; William Mabane; David Grenfell; Hugh Dalton; "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Max Aitken]; Gwilyn Lloyd George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin]; Frederick Montague; George Mathers; Harold Nicolson; R A Butler; Arthur Salter; Sir Donald Somervell; James Stuart; Sir Walter Womersley; "C" [1st Lord Cherwell, earlier Frederick Lindemann]; Thomas Johnston; and "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne and Robert Gascoyne Cecil].Also includes: lists of those to whom the medallions were sent; copies of WSC's letters to the recipients; and notes and copies of correspondence from Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to WSC], John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC] and Grace Hamblin, "Jo" Sturdee, Elizabeth Gilliatt, and Lettice Marsdon [later Lettice Shillingford, Secretaries to WSC].
Dates
- Creation: Jun 1945 - Oct 1948
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Extent
1 item(s) (1 file (248 loose folios))
Language of Materials
English
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