Letters of condolence on election and relinquishing office, 1945-07 - 1945-09
Scope and Contents
Correspondents sympathising with LSA on his departure from the India Office and on the loss of his constituency include: Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Sir [John] Smedley Crooke; [Edward] Hugh Dalton; Sir Alfred Hennessy; Charles Ferguson-Davie; Sir Howard d'Egville [Secretary of the Empire Parliamentary Association] passing on the Association's vote of thanks to LSA (2); Sir John Walton [Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Burma, later Myanmar]; W S Robinson; Sir [David] John Colville, Governor of Bombay, India [later 1st Lord Clydesmuir]; Marjorie Maxse; John Sparrow; Robert Money; Tufton Beamish; Eleanor Rathbone; Kavalam Panikkar, Prime Minister of Bikaner State; Chaim Weizmann; Sir Edward Spears; Jacques Bardoux; Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India]; John Hammond; Sir Frank Brown, Honorary Secretary, East India Association; Meriel Talbot; 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Samuel Hoare]; Sir Donald Somervell, Home Secretary, on continuing in their posts until the formation of the new Government; Sir William Jowitt; Sir Herbert Williams, Honorary Secretary, Empire Economic Union; 3rd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer], sympathising with LSA about John Amery; Sir Ronald Storrs; 5th Lord Listowel [earlier Lord Ennismore]; [Leonard] David Gammans; Harold Gibson; Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt; Lionel James; Robert Barrington-Ward, Editor of the Times, commenting on Julian Amery's campaign at Preston [Lancashire]; Mabel, Lady Hartog; Maud, Lady Cunynghame; Edward Wickham; Dame Edith Lyttelton; James Stuart [Chief Whip]; [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams; Geoffrey Winthrop Young; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Sir Waldron Smithers; Sir Clive Baillieu; Walter Elliot; John Bridges; Sir Ernest Shepperson; Sir Roderick Jones; Henry Channon [Chips Channon]; Caroline, Lady Bridgeman; J L Garvin; 1st Lord Iliffe; Sir George Kirkpatrick; Sir Ralph Assheton, Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Clitheroe], on finding new constituencies for Ministers; [Luke] William Teeling; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; Quintin Hogg [later 2nd Lord Hailsham and Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir; 1st Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India.
Dates
- Creation: 1945-07 - 1945-09
Conditions Governing Access
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Extent
1 file(s)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
Box 177
Finding aid date
2003-12-22 17:02:12.253000+00:00
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