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The Papers of Aubrey Leo Kennedy

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LKEN
Scope and Contents

Journals and press cuttings

Dates: 1919 - 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 Austen Albu

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ALBU
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises pamphlets, papers and correspondence relating to a wide range of subjects including: the Labour party; Germany after the Second World War; the Spanish Civil War; education, economic affairs, industry and employment in the United Kingdom.

Dates: 1928 - 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 Brigadier Michael Rookherst Roberts

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MRBS
Scope and Contents

Diaries and papers relating to the Burma [later Myanmar] Campaign, 1942-5, and papers relating to the 4th Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, 1942-7

Dates: 1942-08 - 1978-08
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 Henry Denham

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DENM
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising a memoir, correspondence and official papers about his work as Naval Attaché in Stockholm, 1940-5

Dates: 1940 - 1974
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 William Richmond Fell

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FELL
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising diaries, log books, correspondence, official papers and photographs
Including papers about the Second World War, 1939-45; post-war salvage operations, 1952-5; and salvage operations during the Suez Crisis, 1956-7
With diaries of Captain Fell's father, Dr Walter Fell, 1915

Dates: 1915 - 1969
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 Charles Eade

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/EADE
Scope and Contents

The collection relates to Charles Eade's connection with Sir Winston Churchill. It includes Eade's diary of meetings with Sir Winston; biographical material about Sir Winston and Sir Winston's own speaking notes for his speech made on 20 June 1940 which Churchill gave to Charles Eade.

Dates: 1939 - 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 Charles Hamson

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9957
Scope and Contents

The collection principally consists of draft texts, offprints and correspondence relating to articles, lectures and broadcasts delivered by Hamson. Some correspondence, most of which concerns various honours and offices held, is also included, together with a small number of items relating to Hamson’s school and university education.

Dates: 1921 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library. Some items of personal correspondence have been closed.
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The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT
Scope and Contents The collection includes: papers and correspondence, photographs and press cuttings plus material on household and domestic administration. It contains the letters exchanged between Sir Winston (WSC) and Lady Churchill (CSC) from 1908, the time of their engagement, until 1963, shortly before Sir Winston's death (1965). This collection was used by Lady Soames in the writing of her mother's biography and it provides a splendid, detailed and often very moving record of a remarkable...
Dates: 1884 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Colonel R S Macrae

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCRA
Scope and Contents

The papers include: Millis Jefferis's copies of M.D.1 correspondence; administration files on staffing and weapons development; research files on the development of individual weapons; Macrae's patent claims, which include original material on the development of the weapons concerned; Macrae's diaries from his time at M.D.1; some material from Macrae's memoirs, "Winston Churchill's Toyshop".

Dates: 1920 - 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 Commander Robert Bower

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BOWR
Scope and Contents

Commander Bower's papers consist of press cuttings and correspondence with some of the leading naval figures of the time, chiefly dating from the Second World War and the late 1930's. Subjects covered by the correspondence chiefly include concerns about the state of the Navy (particularly its relations with the Royal Air Force) and also criticism of the leadership of Winston Churchill.

Dates: 1922 - 1948
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 Con Condren

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CNDN
Scope and Contents

Photographs of subjects including air defences, wireless equipment and V2 rockets and a letter on the Blitz, 1940.

Dates: 1940 - 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 Correlli Barnett

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRNT
Scope and Contents This small collection mainly consists of Barnett's correspondence with Major-General Eric Dorman O'Gowan (formerly Dorman-Smith) for his research for The Desert Generals. The date range covered by the collection is 1958-1963. The collection largely comprises O'Gowan's side of the correspondence (although there are occasional copies of letters from Barnett). The correspondence is lively and detailed and covers O'Gowan's experiences during the desert war and arguments and events supporting his...
Dates: 1958 - 1983
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 Edward Brian Seago

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESEA
Scope and Contents This collection comprises photographs, reports, lectures and instructional booklets on camouflage together with some papers relating to Major Seago's military career and also interesting correspondence between Major Seago and Field-Marshal Sir H.R. Alexander (1941-59) and Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1947-57) mainly on the subject of painting. This collection comprises photographs, reports, lectures and instructional booklets on camouflage together with some papers relating to Major...
Dates: 1933 - 1959
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 Edward George Bowen

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/EGBN
Scope and Contents The papers provide a detailed and most interesting account of developments in radar with which Dr Bowen was involved from 1935 until 1978. Sections 1 to 3 deal respectively with early warning, airborne and centimetre wave radar while Section 4 is concerned with the wartime Tizard Mission to the United States and work being done there on microwave radar. Each of these Sections is preceded by an account by Dr Bowen of the field covered by the papers therein. Section 5 contains the daily...
Dates: 1931 - 1985
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 Ernest Bevin

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BEVN
Scope and Contents

The Papers consist of political papers, correspondence, speeches and press cuttings, mainly relating to Trade Unions, the Ministry of Labour and National Service, and the Foreign Office.

Dates: 1889 - 1965
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 Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PIRI
Scope and Contents

The papers include: papers relating to GPR's anthropological and other scientific work, including involvement in eugenics; papers relating to his political activities, including letters to and from the British Union of Fascists, mostly concerning his 1935 run for Parliament; and large number of documents related to GPR’s 18B detention and internment.

Dates: 1831 - 1999
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 Gerald Wilkinson

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WILK
Scope and Contents

The Wilkinson Papers include three war journals, official telegrams and several files of official correspondence, and provide an extremely valuable record of British Intelligence in the Far East in the Second World War.

Dates: 1942 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access: Sections of series 3, 5 and 6 of the Wilkinson Papers are closed: see individual files for details. The remainder of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Group Captain Hugh Williamson

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLMN
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises unpublished memoirs, articles and other papers relating to Group Captain Williamson’s service in both World Wars and the inter-war period.

Dates: 1912 - 1974
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 Group Captain Malcolm Christie

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHRS
Scope and Contents The core of the collection consists of the series of reports by Christie and his manuscript notes, mainly in German, the reports of his informants and his letters to Vansittart. The papers of more general interest are Christie's notes of interviews with various notable Nazis, particularly Goering, information about the German resistance and German peace workers in 1939-1940. There are also large quantities of related press cuttings. The obvious gaps are in the records of Christie's relations...
Dates: 1928 - 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 Guy Chapman

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHPN
Scope and Contents

Second World War campaign maps; "Les grandes unites francaises", 1939-40 (published, 1967, 1 volume); and manuscript copy of "A passionate prodigality", 1930 (2 volumes)

Dates: 1930 - 1967
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) Montgomery Belgion

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BLGN
Scope and Contents The collection includes personal papers, pocket diaries, photographs, literary material and personal correspondence. There is only a small amount of material relating to HMB's early life and unfortunately a great many papers and correspondence were destroyed in a German bombing raid on London during the Second World War. Virtually all HMB's letters home written as a prisoner-of-war (BLGN 3) appear to have survived and constitute an interesting record of his experiences during the...
Dates: 1891 - 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 Ian and Cecil Jacob

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/JACB
Scope and Contents

The papers cover Jacob's adult life from his early army career, his work as Assistant Military Secretary to the War Cabinet and as Director General of the BBC, to his retirement where he remained active in many important public services. Also included are some Boer War papers which were kept by Jacob's father-in-law.

Dates: 1899 - 1993
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 Antony Crawford Hugill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HUGL
Scope and Contents

The collection includes Hugill's contemporary diaries of the Normandy landings and the liberation of France, photographs and a file relating to Operation Alacrity, an expedition to take over fuelling and other facilities in the Azores. It also includes his notebooks containing his manuscript draft for "The Hazard Mesh", his autobiographical account of his wartime exploits. Files 10 - 15 were deposited by Fanny Hugill and contain her papers regarding Admiral Bertram Ramsay.

Dates: 1943 - 2017
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 Evelyn Moore

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MORE
Scope and Contents

Memoir and related correspondence.

Dates: 1992
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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Roskill, Stephen Wentworth, 1903 - 1982 (naval historian) 3
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Albu, Austen Harry, 1903 - 1994 (engineer and Member of Parliament) 1
Alexander, Albert Victor, 1885 - 1965 (1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, politician) 1
Annan, Noel Gilroy, 1916 - 2000 (Baron Annan, historian) 1
Army 1
Backhouse, Roger Roland Charles, Sir, 1878 - 1939 (Knight, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Barker, Ralph, 1917 (writer) 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
Batters, William, fl. 1939-1969 (sailor) 1
Beevor, Arthur Campbell, 1909 - 1991 (Royal Air Force reservist) 1
Belgion, Harold Montgomery, 1892 - 1973 (author) 1
Belisha, Leslie Hore (1893-1957, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha of Devonport, politician) 1
Benson, George Frederick Percy, 1911-1983 (actor) 1
Bevin, Ernest, 1881 - 1951 (statesman and Trade Union Leader) 1
Bickersteth, Ella, 1858 - 1940 (wife of Samuel Bickersteth) 1
Bickersteth, John Burgon, 1888 - 1979 (academic and poet) 1
Bickersteth, Julian, 1885 - 1962 (chaplain) 1
Bickersteth, Morris, 1891 - 1916 (soldier) 1
Bickersteth, Ralph, 1894 - 1989 (soldier) 1
Bickersteth, Samuel, 1857 - 1937 (chaplain) 1
Binney, Frederick George, Sir, 1900 - 1972 (Knight, explorer) 1
Bowen, Edward George, 1911 - 1991 (radiophysicist) 1
Bower, Robert Tatton, 1894 - 1975 (Commander Royal Navy) 1
Brendon, Piers, 1940 (historian and author) 1
Brimelow, Thomas, 1915 - 1995 (Baron Brimelow of Tyldesley) 1
British Council 1
Broome, John Egerton, 1901 - 1985 (Captain) 1
Bufton, Sydney Osbourne, 1908 - 1993 (Air Vice-Marshal) 1
Burgis, Lawrence Franklin, 1892 - 1972 (civil servant) 1
Burkill, Margareta, 1896–1984 (wife of Burkill, (John) Charles) 1
Buzzard, Anthony Wass, Sir, 1902 - 1972 (2nd Baronet, Rear-Admiral) 1
Cadogan, Alexander George Montagu, Sir, 1884 - 1968 (Knight, diplomat) 1
Cambridge Refugee Committee 1
Cambridge University Catholic Association 1
Cecil, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne (1861-1947, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, politician) 1
Channel 4 Television 1
Chapman, Guy Patterson, 1889 - 1972 (historian) 1
Chavasse, Evelyn Henry, 1906 - 1991 (vicar) 1
Christie, Malcolm Grahame, 1881 - 1971 (Intelligence Officer) 1
Churchill College 1
Clarke, William Francis, 1883 - 1961 (Intelligence Officer) 1
Cockcroft, John Douglas, Sir, 1897 - 1967 (Knight, nuclear physicist and first Master of Churchill College) 1
Collins, Joseph Edward, 1916 - 1998 (Flight-Lieutenant, doctor) 1
Colville, John Rupert, Sir, 1915 - 1987 (Knight, civil servant) 1
Condren, William Joseph, 1900 - 1975 (photographer) 1
Conservative Party 1
Courtenay, William, 1896 - 1960 (journalist) 1
Crooke, Henry Ralph, Sir, 1875 - 1952 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Cunningham, Andrew Brown, 1883 - 1963 (1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet) 1
Davies, Geralt Wyn (b ? 1943,) 1
Denniston, Alexander Guthrie, 1881 - 1961 (Intelligence Officer) 1
Denston, Charles Bernard, 1921-2017 1
Ditcham, Anthony Greville Fox, 1922-2024 (sailor) 1
Donovan, William J, 1883 - 1959 (Major-General) 1
Drax, Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett, Sir (Ernle-Erle-, 1880-1967, Knight, Admiral) 1
Eade, Charles Stanley, 1903 - 1964 (journalist and newspaper editor) 1
Earl, Honor, 1901-1996 (painter) 1
Edelsten, John Hereward, Sir, 1891 - 1966 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
Edward, VIII, 1894 - 1972 (King of Great Britain and Ireland, afterwards Duke of Windsor) 1
Fairbank, Sir Harold Arthur Thomas, 1876-1961 (Knight, Orthopaedic Surgeon) 1
Fairbank, Thomas John, 1912-1998 (Orthopaedic Surgeon) 1
Fell, Walter, 1857 - 1934 (doctor) 1
Fell, William Richmond, 1897 - 1981 (Captain) 1
Fisher Society 1
Fisher, William Wordsworth, Sir, 1875 - 1937 (Knight, Admiral) 1
For Intellectual Liberty. F.I.L. (1935-1940) 1
Foreign Office 1
Fowle, H (. A., fl 1941, Major RA) 1
Galloway, Alexander, Sir, 1895 - 1977 (Knight, Lieutenant-General) 1
Graham, Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame, Sir (1893-1981, Knight, Admiral) 1
Green, Geoffrey, 1919 (Flight Sergeant, Clerk) 1
Gretton, Peter William, Sir, 1912 - 1992 (Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
Gridley, John Crandon, 1904 - 1968 (economic adviser) 1
Hall, William Reginald, Sir, 1870 - 1943 (Knight, Admiral) 1
Hallett, Cecil Charles Hughes, Sir (1898-1985, Knight, Vice-Admiral) 1
Hallett, John Hughes (1901-1972, Vice-Admiral) 1
Hampton, Philip G (b ? 1910, Major RA) 1
Hamson, Charles John Joseph, 1905–1987 (jurist and known as Jack) 1
Hart, Jean Kilgour, 1921-2001 (civil servant) 1
Hartley, Harold Brewer, Sir, 1878 - 1972 (Knight, physical chemist) 1
Hassall, Christopher Vernon, 1912-1963 (writer and librettist) 1
Hugill, John Antony Crawford, 1916 - 1987 (member of 30 Assault Unit) 1
ID25, Intelligence Division of Naval Staff, 1917- 1
Jacob, Edward Ian Claud, Sir, 1899 - 1993 (Knight, Lieutenant-General) 1
Johnston, Clarence Dinsmore Howard (1903-1996, Rear-Admiral) 1
Jones, John Edward Lennard, Sir (1894-1954, Knight, scientist) 1
Kennedy, Aubrey Leo, 1885 - 1965 (diplomatic correspondent) 1
Keynes, Richard Darwin, 1919 - 2010 (Professor of Physiology) 1
Labour Party 1
Lewin, George Ronald, 1914 - 1984 (military historian) 1
Lloyd, Blanche Isabella, 1880 - 1969 (née Lascelles, wife of 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran) 1
Lloyd, George Ambrose, 1879 - 1941 (1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran) 1
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