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The Papers of Frank 'Dusty' Green

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FGRN
Scope and Contents There are several aspects to this collection of essays that make them an important contribution to our understanding of Winston Churchill’s wartime leadership and how it was viewed in distant parts of the British empire.The collection of Weekly Notes is interesting because it covers world events in a time of world war. Dusty Green shows remarkable perceptiveness in his commentary on various developments. He offers sober minded analysis of the Soviet Union’s role in the war...
Dates: 1940 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Thomas Fife Clark

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FICA
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising official papers, speeches, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs and audio tapes.

Dates: 1934 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Papers concerning Margaret Thatcher's time as Member of Parliament for the Finchley Constituency, 1948-1992.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FINC
Scope and Contents

Including in and copy-out constituency correspondence answered by Margaret Thatcher and her constituency office staff, 1986; constituents' cases and surgery files, 1987-91; details of Mrs Thatcher's constituency engagements, 1971-87 (incomplete); annual yearbooks of the (then) Finchley and Friern Barnet Conservative Association, 1948/9-55/6, 1983, 1985/6-89/90; and other miscellaneous material, ca. 1983-92

Dates: 1948 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: Closed while uncatalogued. Much of the material relates to individual constituents and would require closure on data protection grounds.
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The Papers of 1st Lord Fisher of Kilverstone

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR
Scope and Contents The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre includes: official and family correspondence; correspondence about Fisher and his biography collected by Nina, Duchess of Hamilton; papers on naval subjects; material relating to the Oil Commission; material relating to the Board of Invention and Research; printed material: Admiralty, Committee of Imperial Defence, Cabinet and White Papers; material intended for Fisher's printed works, personal notes, papers and albums; letters to newspapers,...
Dates: 1696 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Michael Franklin

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FKLN
Scope and Contents

The collection relates primarily to Sir Michael’s involvement with policy on Europe. It includes his diaries from 1961-4, and a memoir of his time at the Cabinet Office from 1977-81. This memoir was written by Sir Michael in retirement.

Dates: 1961 - 2012
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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The Papers of Fladgate and Company

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FLAD
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence from Sir Winston Churchill's solicitors, chiefly Anthony Moir, mainly relating to the initial cataloguing of Churchill's archive by the Public Record Office and rights in his literary works. The archive also includes two commemorative albums put together by Moir, reflecting his time with Churchill.

Dates: 1947 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Francis Floud

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FLUD
Scope and Contents

The collection is made up largely of press cuttings, speeches and papers relating to Floud's 33 years at the Board of Agriculture (later the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) and his time as High Commissioner in Canada (1934-1938).

Dates: 1884 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Horace Finlayson

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FLYN
Scope and Contents

Comprising diaries and correspondence

Dates: 1921 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of the "Flower" Motor Ship Company Ltd

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FMSC
Scope and Contents

Company records

Dates: 1912 - 1922
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Archibald Finlayson Forbes

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FORB
Scope and Contents

Papers, mainly relating to the Iron and Steel Board, banking and other interests

Dates: 1946 - 1984
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Joseph Ford

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FORD
Scope and Contents

Ford's papers consist of three diaries kept during his postings, and a later memoir of him by his son.

Dates: 1960 - 2014
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Francis Pym

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FPYM
Scope and Contents

Political and personal papers maintained by Lord Pym

Dates: 1930 - 2008
Conditions Governing Access: Closed until catalogued and appraised
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The Papers of Bryan Forbes

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRBS
Scope and Contents

The collection mainly consists of correspondence with key conservative figures including Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major. There is also associated material such as, invitations to social engagements and photographs.

Dates: 1967 - 2010
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is closed pending review.
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The Papers of Sir William Scott Farren

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FREN
Scope and Contents Papers relating to Farren's work as an aeronautical engineer, comprising reports, journals, notes, photographs and personal items. The bulk of the collection is made up of printed material, mainly Aeronautical Research Committee reports by Farren or his colleagues and Farren's articles in learned journals, including a considerable amount of material from the between war period. There is little correspondence in the collection and very little relating to Farren's personal life save for one...
Dates: 1915 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Rosalind Franklin

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRKN
Scope and Contents A lot of the material within the collection relates to Rosalind Franklin's work on the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Consisting of working papers, notebooks, reports and correspondence, this material is of considerable historical interest to those studying the discovery of the structure of DNA. There is also an extensive collection of papers relating to Franklin's work on the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV), which took place at Birkbeck College in London. There are few papers...
Dates: 1927 - 2017
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Rosalind Franklin's personal correspondence (reference: FRKN 9) is closed until 2034.
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The Papers of Air Commodore Francis Banks

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FROB
Scope and Contents

Papers and photographs mainly relating to Bank's career in aviation.

Dates: 1908 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Lord Francis-Williams

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRWS
Scope and Contents Most of the collection comprises manuscripts and typescripts of books, articles, lectures and radio scripts by Lord Francis-Williams. There are also numerous newspaper cuttings of his articles and book reviews and copies of a number of his own published works. FRWS 7 contains papers relating to his visits to Mauritius and Mosul and FRWS 8 his correspondence from 1945-1972 including letters to and from Attlee, Beaverbrook, Churchill, Dalton, Eden, Gaitskell, Julian Huxley, Lord Reith and...
Dates: 1937 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Harold William Fawcett

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FWCT
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: photographs and later correspondence relating to the Battle of Jutland; papers on Fawcett's work in the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division during the Second World War; a personal journal from Fawcett's early days in the Navy, including his time in the Persian Gulf; and biographical material.

Dates: 1911-2016
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The Journal of Major H. A. Fowle

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FWLE
Scope and Contents These two volumes describe Fowle's journey to Malta in 1941. He travelled on MV Georgic from Gourock in Scotland. He describes daily life on board the Georgic until it arrives in Port Tewfik, Egypt on 7 July and he disembarks the following day. The entry for 15 July includes the news that the Georgic has been bombed by the Germans and Fowle must now await instructions. July and August are spent in Cairo waiting to be moved and during this time the journal is particularly limited to...
Dates: 1941-05-18 - 1941-11-12
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of George Allen

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GALN
Scope and Contents

This small collection of autobiographical material comprises Allen's recorded recollections of working as a naval adviser to Sir Winston Churchill on the History of the Second World War and an account of his life and career.

Dates: 1955 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Lord Gardiner

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GARD
Scope and Contents

This collection reflects Lord Gardiner's involvement and interest in law reform and the justice system. There are many Law Commission reports as well as other printed papers. There is correspondence about rehabilitation of offenders, laws and acts, as well as source material for reports. The texts of a number of articles and speeches given by Lord Gardiner are here, including those during his time as Lord Chancellor. Official and press photographs are also included.

Dates: 1922 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Groundbreakers Interview Series

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GBKR
Scope and Contents A series of interviews in 2024 with prominent women politicians active in Westminster at the time, from the 1970s onwards.Interviewees were Baroness Anne Jenkin (Cons), Anne Campbell (Lab), Baroness Hilary Armstrong (Lab), Baroness Gillian Shephard (Cons), Baroness Harriet Harman (Lab), Baroness Margaret Beckett (Lab), Dame Caroline Spelman (Cons), Baroness Estelle Morris (Lab), Baroness Helene Hayman (Lab), Baroness Emma Nicholson (Cons), Baroness Susan Kramer (LD), Baroness...
Dates: 2024-01 - 2024-04
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The Papers of Captain Godfrey Alexander French

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GDFR
Scope and Contents

The papers cover Captain French's career from 1930, when he attended the R.N. Staff College at Greenwich, until his retirement in 1978.

Dates: 1914 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Admiral John Henry Godfrey

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GDFY
Scope and Contents Admiral Godfrey began to write his 'Naval Memoirs' in May 1961 ''as heaps of constructional material for which some builder-historian may one day find a use". They were duplicated at Hailsham near his home in Sussex in ten volumes. The 'Naval Memoirs' are written partly from Admiral Godfrey’s own papers and memory, but also incorporate lengthy extracts from other diaries and reminiscences. There are extracts from Admiral Godfrey's diaries and from official papers written by...
Dates: The majority of the collection dates from 1964-67
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GEDD
Scope and Contents

This collection mainly consists of private papers and correspondence, 1885-1954, and family papers, 1783-1963. The material, especially the ministerial and ambassadorial papers, collected together by David Geddes provides an insight into the 1910s and 1920s. The collection also includes Geddes' writings on medical, spiritual and military matters.

Dates: 1783 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

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Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874-1965 (Knight, statesman and historian) 42
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Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer, 1885-1977 (née Hozier, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell) 6
Roskill, Stephen Wentworth, 1903 - 1982 (naval historian) 6
Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897-1967 (Knight, nuclear physicist and first Master of Churchill College) 5
Royal Air Force 5
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda, 1925-2013 (née Roberts, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, Prime Minister) 5
Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell 4
Churchill College 4
Foreign Office 4
Soames, Mary, Dame, 1922 - 2014 (née Churchill, writer, wife of Baron Soames) 4
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 4
Whittle, Frank, Sir, 1907 - 1996 (Knight, Air Commodore, aeronautical engineer) 4
Chartwell Manor 3
Keyes, Roger John Brownlow, 1872-1945 (1st Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge and of Dover, Admiral of the Fleet) 3
Kinnock, Neil Gordon, b 1942 (Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty, Labour politician) 3
Soames, Arthur Christopher John, 1920 - 1987 (Baron Soames of Fletching, politician) 3
Allen, George Roland Gordon, 1891 - 1980 (naval officer and literary assistant to Sir Winston Churchill) 2
Amery, Leopold Stennett, 1873 - 1955 (politician) 2
Army 2
Arup, Ove Nyquist, Sir, 1895 - 1988 (Knight, consulting engineer) 2
Broome, John Egerton, 1901 - 1985 (Captain) 2
Carden, Sackville Hamilton, Sir, 1857 - 1930 (Knight, Admiral) 2
Churchill, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer, 1911 - 1968 (politician, author) 2
Clarke, Richard William Barnes, Sir, 1910 - 1975 (Knight) 2
Clarke, William Francis, 1883 - 1961 (Intelligence Officer) 2
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1890-1954 (1st Viscount Norwich) 2
Cooper, Diana Olivia Winifred Maud, Lady, 1892-1986 (née Manners, wife of 1st Viscount Norwich) 2
Cunningham, Andrew Brown, 1883 - 1963 (1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet) 2
Deakin, Frederick William Dampier, Sir, 1913 - 2005 (Knight and literary assistant to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill) 2
Edwards, Robert Geoffrey, Sir, 1925 - 2013 (Knight, Professor of Human Reproduction) 2
Fisher, William Wordsworth, Sir, 1875 - 1937 (Knight, Admiral) 2
Gilbert, Martin John, Sir, 1936 - 2015 (Knight, historian) 2
Hall, William Reginald, Sir, 1870 - 1943 (Knight, Admiral) 2
Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers, 1877-1963 (Lord Hankey of the Chart, civil servant) 2
Hewish, Antony, 1924-2021 (Professor of Radioastronomy) 2
Jebb, Cynthia, 1898 - 1990 (wife of 1st Baron Gladwyn, political hostess and diarist) 2
Jebb, Hubert Miles Gladwyn, 1900 - 1996 (1st Baron Gladwyn, diplomat) 2
Kelly, Richard Denis Lucien, 1916 - 1990 (lawyer, assistant to Sir Winston Churchill) 2
Lawson, John David, 1923 - 2008 (nuclear physicist) 2
Morley, James Wycliffe Headlam, Sir (1863-1929, Knight, civil servant, historian) 2
Ramsay, Bertram Home, Sir, 1883 - 1945 (Knight, Admiral) 2
Robertson, Malcolm Arnold, Sir, 1877 - 1951 (Knight, Civil Servant, MP) 2
Steiner, Francis George, 1929 - 2020 (Professor of Comparative Literature, philosopher, critic) 2
Steiner, Frederick George, 1890 - 1968 (lawyer, international banking executive and investment advisor) 2
Thomson, George Paget, Sir, 1892 - 1975 (Knight, nuclear physicist) 2
United Nations 2
University of Cambridge 2
Vansittart, Robert Gilbert, 1881 - 1957 (1st Baron Vansittart of Denham, diplomat) 2
Vien, John Douglas Le, 1918 - 1999 (film maker) 2
Vilim, Blazej, 1909 - 1976 (Czech Social Democratic leader) 2
Wallis, Barnes Neville, Sir, 1887 - 1979 (Knight, aeronautical engineer) 2
Wemyss, Rosslyn Erskine, 1864 - 1933 (1st Baron Wester Wemyss, Admiral of the Fleet) 2
Young, Michael, 1915 - 2002 (Baron Young of Dartington, sociologist) 2
Abrams, Mark Alexander, 1906 - 1994 (social scientist and businessman) 1
Adams, John Harold, 1918 - 2008 (Rear-Admiral) 1
Admiralty 1
Agar, Alan Wawn, 1920 (physicist) 1
Agnew, Stair Carnegie, 1872 - 1940 (lawyer) 1
Aitken, Jonathan William Patrick, 1942 (politician) 1
Albu, Austen Harry, 1903 - 1994 (engineer and Member of Parliament) 1
Alexander, Albert Victor, 1885 - 1965 (1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, politician) 1
Allibone, Thomas Edward, 1903 - 2003 (physicist) 1
Alliluyeva, Svetlana Iosifovna, 1926 - 2011 (afterwards Lana Peters, daughter of Joseph Stalin) 1
Amery, Harold Julian, 1919 - 1996 (Baron Amery of Lustleigh, politician) 1
Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Ltd 1
Ashburner, Michael, 1942-2023 (Professor of Biology and Fellow of Churchill College) 1
Ashmore, Leslie Haliburton, 1893 - 1974 (Vice-Admiral) 1
Astor, Nancy, 1879 - 1964 (née Langhorne, Viscountess Astor, politician) 1
Attlee, Clement Richard, 1883-1967 (1st Earl Attlee, statesman) 1
Backhouse, Roger Roland Charles, Sir, 1878 - 1939 (Knight, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Bacon, Francis Thomas, 1904 - 1992 (engineer and fuel cell pioneer) 1
Bagnold, Ralph Alger, 1896 - 1990 (Brigadier, geophysicist) 1
Bailly, Louis Edward Stewart Holland Le, Sir, 1915 (Knight and Vice-Admiral) 1
Baker, Irene Noel (c 1879-1956, wife of Philip Noel-Baker) 1
Baker, John Fleetwood, 1901 - 1985 (Baron Baker of Windrush, scientist and Professor of Mechanical Sciences) 1
Baker, Philip John Noel-, 1889-1982 (Baron Noel-Baker and politician) 1
Balfour, Harold Harington, 1897 - 1988 (Baron Balfour of Inchrye, politician) 1
Banks, Francis Rodwell, 1898 - 1985 (Air Commodore) 1
Barker, Nicholas John, 1933 - 1997 (Captain Royal Navy) 1
Barker, Paul, 1935 - 2019 (writer, editor and broadcaster) 1
Barker, Ralph, 1917 (writer) 1
Barker, William, Sir, 1909 - 1992 (Knight, diplomat and Professor of Russian) 1
Barnes, William Lethbridge Gorell, Sir, 1909 - 1987 (Knight, civil servant) 1
Barnett, Correlli Douglas, 1927-2022 (author and historian) 1
Barry, Philip Stuart Milner, Sir (1906-1995, Knight and codebreaker) 1
Batey, Mavis Lilian, 1921 - 2013 (nee Lever, wartime codebreaker and garden campaigner) 1
Beamish, Henry Hamilton, 1829 - 1901 (Rear Admiral) 1
Beamish, Tufton Percy Hamilton, 1874 - 1951 (Rear Admiral) 1
Beamish, Tufton Victor Hamilton, 1917 - 1989 (Baron Chelwood of Lewes) 1
Beatty, David, 1871-1936 (1st Earl Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Behrens, Catherine Betty Abigail, 1904 - 1989 (historian) 1
Belgion, Harold Montgomery, 1892 - 1973 (author) 1
Belisha, Leslie Hore (1893-1957, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha of Devonport, politician) 1
Benn, Ursula Helen Alers, 1909 - 2006 (née Hankey) 1
Bevin, Ernest, 1881 - 1951 (statesman and Trade Union Leader) 1
Bickersteth, Ella, 1858 - 1940 (wife of Samuel Bickersteth) 1
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