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The Papers of Ivo Geikie-Cobb

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GEIK
Scope and Contents Letters chiefly relating to Geikie-Cobb's commissioning of BBC broadcast talks during the Second World War (mainly under his pseudonym 'Anthony Weymouth'), which he apparently kept as souvenirs. Correspondents include: Edith Watson, Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, acknowledging a letter from Geikie-Cobb advising that it should be made clear to the German Government that German cities would be bombed in retaliation for the bombing of British cities; Patricia Hamilton,...
Dates: 1940 - 1952
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 Andrew Graham Gilchrist

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GILC
Scope and Contents

Military, diplomatic and literary papers, 1937-93.

Dates: 1937 - 1993
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of 1st Lord Gladwyn

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD
Scope and Contents The material at Churchill Archives Centre begins with Lord Gladwyn's school and college notebooks, and runs to his final articles, but with the exception of his personal and family correspondence, was chiefly created after Lord Gladwyn's retirement from the Diplomatic Service. A large proportion of the papers consists of notes, reports, articles, speeches and correspondence amassed from Lord Gladwyn's work as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords and Liberal spokesman...
Dates: 1875 - 2002
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 Martin Gilbert

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLBT
Scope and Contents

Comprising Martin Gilbert's correspondence with Robert Hastings of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker (lawyers) and with Churchill College (including Churchill Archives Centre) staff.

Dates: 1965 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and one form of photographic identification is required.
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The Papers of Lord Lloyd of Dolobran

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD
Scope and Contents The papers consist of: personal material, including photographs, press cuttings and correspondence; papers on Eastern affairs, including reports and correspondence from Lloyd's time at Constantinople and official copies of telegrams to and from the Turkish Government; papers and correspondence from Lloyd's various Eastern postings in the First World War; papers from India, during Lloyd's governorship of Bombay and also later papers from Lloyd's membership of the India Group; official...
Dates: 1879 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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"The Tragedy of HMS Glorious"

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLOR
Scope and Contents

The collection of material held at Churchill Archives Centre relates to the preparation of the documentary and includes research notes and correspondence; transcripts and videotapes of interviews, film footage and of the documentary.

Dates: 1997
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is not able to provide access to audio-visual material unless an access copy of the relevant tape is available. In cases where a Betacam and VHS videotape exists, access to the VHS version would be possible. In other cases, access copies must be made before access can be granted. Access copies may be arranged through Churchill Archives Centre.
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The Papers of Audrey Glauert

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLRT
Scope and Contents

The collection mainly consists of publications, correspondence, pocket diaries and lab books. There are also some lantern slides from Glauert's research.

Dates: 1942 - 2013
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is closed until catalogued.
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Personal Papers of Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Galloway

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLWY
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of correspondence with colleagues from the Eighth Army, historians and key figures from World War II.

Dates: 1958 - 1975
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 Baron Gordon-Walker

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GNWR
Scope and Contents The most interesting items in the collection are the diaries, interleaved with letters and papers, which Lord Gordon-Walker kept throughout his political career and which shed fascinating light upon his fellow Members of Parliament and Cabinet Ministers and upon the events and personalities involved in international -and especially Commonwealth - affairs. There are numerous articles and speeches by Lord Gordon-Walker together with notes and reviews pertaining to his book ‘The Cabinet’ and a...
Dates: 1883 - 1980
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 Charles Frederick Goodeve

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GOEV
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising of articles, lectures, correspondence, a diary, research notes, press cuttings, photographs and microfilm.

Dates: 1920 - 1981
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 Geoffrey J. Gollin

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GOLN
Scope and Contents

These papers fall into three sections. Firstly there are the memoranda, calculations and diagrams relating to work for Frank Whittle. Secondly, there are papers from the experiments carried out on the Shell rocket. Finally, there is the typescript of a lecture by Gollin on the development of the shell rocket.

Dates: 1938 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Material on Major-General Charles Gordon

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GORD
Scope and Contents

The most notable materials from this collection are the four notes written in Arabic by Gordon while besieged in Khartoum and a contemporary map of the Sudan by the Illustrated London News. Also included are several photographs of Gordon, and material dating to the fiftieth anniversary of his death; reflections on his life, and the order of the memorial service.

Dates: 1875-08 - 1935-08
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Conference Diaries of Flight Sergeant G. Green

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GREE
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of notebooks containing diaries of the Atlantic Meeting, Washington, Quebec, Cairo and Yalta conferences. Green tends to record events from his own day but when relevant these include encounters with Churchill and other key figures.

Dates: 1941 - 1946
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 Captain Russell Grenfell RN

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GREN
Scope and Contents

This small collection of material consists of correspondence and drafts comprising materials for Grenfell's books: "The Bismarck Episode" (1948); "Main Fleet to Singapore" (1951); "Unconditional Hatred" (1953) and for a projected book on the Norwegian Campaign 1940.

Dates: 1940 - 1954
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 John Gridley

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GRID
Scope and Contents Letters from Gridley to his wife Joan, chiefly on his life in Algeria and France. The letters cover various domestic issues, but also touch frequently on Gridley's work, with many references to [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [Minister Resident at Allied HeadQuarters in North-West Africa, 1942-45, later 1st Lord Stockton], Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich], and to Gridley's American and French colleagues. His letters from Paris include an account of the 1944 Armistice Day celebrations with...
Dates: 1943 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Reminiscences of Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GRTN
Scope and Contents

Unpublished memoirs of Admiral Gretton, based on his occasional diaries, photo albums, naval papers and family histories, and particularly concentrating on the earlier and later years of Gretton's career.

Dates: 1979 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access: A digital surrogate of the volume is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of George Steiner

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GSNR
Scope and Contents The material held at Churchill Archives Centre comprises Professor Steiner’s personal papers. They include papers of his wife Dr Zara Steiner and his children David and Deborah Steiner. They are predominantly in English with some French. They consist of correspondence with Professor Steiner’s parents Dr Frederick Steiner and Mrs Else Steiner, other correspondence, memorabilia and scrapbooks. There is also an extensive collection of press cuttings, and a small number of family...
Dates: 1929 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures are marked in the catalogue.
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The Papers of George Guise

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GUIS
Scope and Contents

Papers authored by Guise for the Prime Minister as a member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit papers, 1986-90 (circa 135 separate items)

Dates: 1986 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access: Closed until catalogued and reviewed
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Photographs from World War II

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GWDA
Scope and Contents

Official wartime British photographs, including the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran Conferences and Chiang Kai Shek.

Dates: 1943
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 Hailsham [Douglas Hogg]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIL
Scope and Contents

Papers mainly comprising correspondence

Dates: 1922 - 1939
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 Patrick George Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes of Prestonkirk

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIS
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...
Dates: 1928 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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The Papers of Admiral Sir (William) Reginald Hall

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HALL
Scope and Contents

Memoirs and papers, 1915-42, additional papers, 1851-1911, and correspondence, 1939-1943.

Dates: 1851 - 1943
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 William John Haley

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HALY
Scope and Contents

Includes diaries 1922-86, correspondence 1935-83, and press cuttings.

Dates: 1920 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers with prior permission at Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Grace Hamblin

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAMB
Scope and Contents

This small collection of papers comprises Grace Hamblin's notes for speeches about her work for Sir Winston Churchill and his family. She recalls getting her position as secretary and what it was like to work for Churchill. Churchill Archives Centre also owns Grace Hamblin's OBE which is on permanent loan to the National Trust, Chartwell.

Dates: 1974 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers at Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Russell Hardy

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HARD
Scope and Contents

Material relating to Russell Hardy's campaign for a National Churchill Day, including material on Second World War Resistance movements and a memorial to Ivor Novello.

Dates: 1910-08 - 1991-08
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

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Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897-1967 (Knight, nuclear physicist and first Master of Churchill College) 5
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Thatcher, Margaret Hilda, 1925-2013 (née Roberts, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, Prime Minister) 5
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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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