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General correspondence, 1986-11 - 1986-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/140

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken; Kenneth Baker, Secretary of State for Education and Science, on the proposed moving of the Royal Greenwich Observatory to Cambridge; Antony Baldry; 4th Lord Bethell; Sir Peter Blaker (2); John Blelloch [former Private Secretary to JA at the War Office] recalling journeys with JA in Abu Dhabi and Oman, 1957-58 (2); Sir Nicholas Bonsor, asking for JA's support in the elections to the 1922 Committee executive; Virginia Bottomley on the Central London Teenage Project; Alan Bristow; John Browne on press allegations about him and the sale of a council house; Lord Cranborne [later 7th Lord Salisbury] enclosing a memorandum on the political crisis in the United Arab Emirates; Alistair Horne on applying to Sir William Deakin for the Wardenship of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, on his biography of [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], and finding a biographer for [Neil] "Billy" McLean (2); Sir William Deakin; Rauf Denktas, President of Northern Cyprus; Ian Gow on JA's dinner for Denktas; Lord Fanshawe of Richmond [earlier Anthony Royle] on JA's dinner for Denktas; 1st Lord Harding of Petherton on JA's dinner for Denktas; Lord Eden of Winton; Louis FitzGibbon, Secretary of the British Horn of Africa Council, on subjects including the death of [Neil] "Billy" McLean, also enclosing minutes of council meetings (6); Michael Forsyth; Sir [John] Marcus Fox on a motion pressing for reform of the Sunday trading laws; George Gardiner; Martin Gilbert on publishing a letter from JA in his biography of Sir Winston Churchill; 1st Lord Glendevon [earlier Lord John Hope] on the Government's poor recent performance; Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister; Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including JA's talks with Israeli and French ministers on the Middle East, and with Rauf Denktas over Cyprus (3); 4th Lord Kimberley [earlier Lord Wodehouse]; Norman Lamont [Financial Secretary to the Treasury] on the Personal Equity Plan (PEP) scheme; Mark Lennox-Boyd; Sir William Lithgow, enclosing copies of his correspondence with the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, on compensation for the nationalisation of his shipbuilding company; Sir Trevor Lloyd-Hughes; Sir James Mancham; John Patten; Lord Plowden, Chairman of the Review Body on Top Salaries, on a review of MPs' allowances (2); [John] Tim Rathbone; [Roland] "Tiny" Rowland, Chief Executive of Lonrho, enclosing copies of correspondence with [Henry] Paul Channon, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [later Lord Kelvedon] on the takeover of House of Fraser by Mohamed Al Fayed; Thomas Sackville; Timothy Sainsbury; 12th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lord Lumley]; Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel; [William] Martin Smyth on a visit from members of Belfast City Council; John Stanley [Minister of State for the Armed Forces] enclosing a paper on American forces in Britain, and the contribution of the United States to allied defence; Sir Peter Temple-Morris on the death of [Neil] "Billy" McLean; Sir John Townley; David Trippier, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Employment, on regional enterprise units; David Waddington, Minister of State, Home Office, on the extension of visa requirements to Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Nigeria; General Sir Walter Walker, former NATO Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe, on the effect on NATO if Britain decided to unilaterally disband its nuclear weapons (2); Kenneth Warren; John Wilkinson on the death of [Neil] "Billy" McLean; Sir Miles Wingate, Deputy Master of Trinity House on providing pilotage services for ports; Nicholas Winterton, All Party Namibia Group, on separating Namibia from South Africa; Denis Worrall, South African Ambassador to Britain; Peregrine Worsthorne; George Younger, Secretary of State for Defence on the cancellation of the Nimrod airborne early warning aircraft and their replacement with Boeings instead.

Dates

  • Creation: 1986-11 - 1986-12

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Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.

Extent

3 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Box 621

Finding aid date

2013-10-08 15:33:53.647000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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