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Letters of sympathy sent to JA on the death of Leo Amery, 1955-09 - 1956-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 3/1/48

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Sir George Abell; Konrad Adenauer; William Aitken; William Allen; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Sir Claude Auchinleck; Archer Baldwin; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye [President of the Commonwealth and Empire Industries Association] (2); Jacques Bardoux; 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Vernon Willey]; [George] Herbert Baxter; Isaiah Berlin; John Biggs-Davison; 2nd Lord Birdwood; 2nd Lord Birkenhead [earlier Lord Furneaux]; Mark Bonham Carter; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury]; Sir Robert Boothby (2); Sir Clive Bossom; John Boyd-Carpenter; Sir Albert Braithwaite; Sir [Joseph] Gurney Braithwaite; 1st Lord Brand; Sir Harry Brittain; 1st Lord Brookeborough [earlier Basil Brooke]; Richard Brooman-White; Rohan Butler; R A Butler; Sir Olaf Caroe; Roger Cary, Producer, BBC Overseas Talks; Randolph Churchill; John Connell; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (2); Stephen Courtauld; [George] Beresford Craddock; Aubrey Davidson-Houston; William Deakin; Jacques de Beaumarchais; Geoffrey de Freitas; Roland de Margerie; Leo d'Erlanger; Henry de Satgé; Henry Drummond-Wolff; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain; Paul Emrys-Evans; Sir Robert Ensor; Lord Euston [later 11th Duke of Grafton]; Keith Feiling; Nigel Fisher; Dingle Foot; Hugh Fraser; Sir [Leonard] David Gammans; Sir Alexander Glen; 2nd Lord Greenwood; [Arthur] Anthony Greenwood; James Griffiths; John Grigg [later 2nd Lord Altrincham]; 1st Lord Hailey; 1st Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] enclosing a copy of his address in tribute to Amery at All Souls College, University of Oxford; John Hare [later 1st Lord Blakenham]; Alan Hare; Ian Harvey; Sir Cuthbert Headlam; Edward Heath; Christopher Hely-Hutchinson; [John] Nicholas Henderson; Hans Herwarth von Bittenfeld, German Ambassador to Britain; Lord Hinchingbrooke; [Maurice] Christopher Hollis; Lord John Hope [later 1st Lord Glendevon]; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton]; 1st Lord Hore-Belisha; Thomas Hutton, former Editor of the Birmingham Post; Edward Hulton; 2nd Lord Jellicoe; Aubrey Jones; Sir Roderick Jones; Sir [David] Lindsay Keir, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford; 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson]; 1st Lord Kilmuir [earlier David Maxwell Fyfe] (2); Sir [John] Gilbert Laithwaite, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, writing for all those in the Commonwealth Relations Office who remembered working with Amery (2); Sir William Larke; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Sir John Le Rougetel; Leslie Lever; Basil Liddell Hart; John Lockhart; Charles Longbottom; Cyril Lord; Toby Low [later 1st Lord Aldington]; Archibald Lyall; Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale]; Max Mallowan; Sir Simon Marks (2); Sir John Marriott; René Massigli; Angus Maude; Dominic ["Dom"] Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta; [Rupert] Iain Moncreiffe; John Morrison [later 1st Lord Margadale]; Sir Desmond Morton; Edward Beddington-Behrens, European Movement; Sir Andrew McFadyean; Sir William McLean; Fitzroy Maclean; Ian McMaster; Maurice Macmillan; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Sir Harold Nicolson; Godfrey Nicholson; Reginald Northam; Sir Peter Norton-Griffiths; Sir [Frank] Keith Officer; Harry Oppenheimer (2); Maurice Petherick; Sir Charles Petrie; [John] Enoch Powell; 2nd Lord Mancroft, enclosing an article on Amery from the Primrose League Gazette; John Profumo; Count Edward Raczynski; Sir [Henry] Victor Raikes; Halford Reddish; William Rees-Davies; [D'Arcy] Patrick Reilly; Paul Reynaud; Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams; Joshua Rowley; 1st Lord Ruffside [earlier Douglas Brown]; 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] (3); Sir Orme Sargent; Sir Norman Seddon-Brown; [John] Selwyn Lloyd; [George] Hugh Seton-Watson; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain; Israel Sieff; Marcus Sieff; Michael Sieff; Sir Walter Smart; [Arthur] Christopher Soames; John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford (2); Alexander Spearman; Sir [Edward] Louis Spears (2); Leonard Stein; [Archibald] David Stirling; 'Michael' [Walter] Stirling; Mabel Strickland; Christopher Sykes; [George] Peter Thorneycroft; John Tilney; John Townley; Ronald Tree; Sir Francis Tuker; 1st Lord Vansittart; John Vaughan-Morgan, Chairman of the British Commonwealth Producers' Organisation [later Lord Reigate]; Sir [Sigismund] David Waley; Sir [Roland] Roy Welensky; Paul Williams; Edgar Williams, Warden of Rhodes House, University of Oxford; Rowland Winn [later 4th Lord St Oswald]; 1st Lord Winster [earlier Reginald Fletcher]; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; 1st Lord Woolton [Chairman of the Conservative Party, earlier Frederick Marquis]; Woodrow Wyatt; King Zog I of Albania.

Dates

  • Creation: 1955-09 - 1956-02

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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

5 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Box 579

Finding aid date

2014-04-10 16:12:15.873000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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