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Gifts

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 382 Collections and/or Records:

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Public and Political: General: General Public correspondence, T-Z., Jan 1942 - Dec 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/479A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Guy] Millard of the Foreign Office (2) and [Philip] Mitchell, Managing Director, Royal Mail House, (3) on gifts to WSC of an atlas of Poland and a statuette from the Ukrainian Democratic Colony of Sao Paolo [Brazil]; [6th] Lord Clarendon [earlier Lord Hyde], Chairman Revenue Committee, Toc H (2) requesting WSC's patronage for an event and inviting him to a luncheon; Reverend [James] Tomlin on publishing an anecdote about WSC at school; [John] Perowne of the Foreign...
Dates: Jan 1942 - Dec 1943
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts., Apr 1955 - Jan 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/592A-C
Scope and Contents Correspondence (General Public) G-Mc Dennis Gabor (Inaugural Lecture, enclosed) Charles Gelb (portrait of Bernard Baruch) Air Marshal Sir Gerald Gibbs (book, Survivors Story) Ruth Gilbert (family bible) Frank Godchaux (rice) Lt-Col Tom Greenhalgh (poodle paperweight) Permanent Mission of Guinea to the United Nations (stamps commemorating President Kennedy) Harcourt Brace & Co., (book "Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox" by James M Burns) Geoffrey Harmsworth (biography of Lord Northcliffe)...
Dates: Apr 1955 - Jan 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts., Mar 1955 - Jun 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/593A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondence (General Public) M-W Correspondents include:T F Maidens (walking stick) Col. Roger Maillet (maple syrup) John Marsh (book "The Young Winston Churchill") Massachusetts Historical Society (walking stick) Joan Medhurst (book "R.X. 107) Fritz Meili (cigar holder) Jurz Menzi (honey pot) J W G Moran (book "Spearhead in Malaya") Ronald Murray (book) William Palmer (portrait of Lord Randolph Churchill) Suran Parkinson (portrait bust of WSC) Joaquim Rufino Pinto (vintage brandy and...
Dates: Mar 1955 - Jun 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts., Nov 1962 - Nov 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/594
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88th Birthday - correspondence Correspondents include Ava, Lady Waverley, J A Billmeir, Lord Normanbrook, Middle Common Room, Churchill College Cambridge, Lord Chandos, Lady Juliet Duff, Desmond Flower, Lord Ismay, Lord Moran, Odette Pol Roger, Peregrine Churchill, Randolph Churchill, Sarah, Lady Audley (formerly Sarah Churchill); Frank Sawyers,.

Dates: Nov 1962 - Nov 1962
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts., Nov 1963 - Nov 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/595
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89th Birthday - correspondence Correspondents include Bernard Baruch, Lord Beaverbrook, Lady Birley, lady Violet Bonam-Carter, Julian and Celia Sandys, Lord Chandos (formerly Oliver Lyttelton), Vivien Leigh (Lady Olivier), Lord Ismay, Lord Normanbrook, Peregrine Churchill, Odette Pol Roger, Lady Waverley.

Dates: Nov 1963 - Nov 1963
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts., Nov 1964 - Nov 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/596
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90th Birthday - correspondence Correspondents include Lady Birley, Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Vivien Leigh (Lady Olivier), Lord Ismay, Lord Normanbrook, Peregrine Churchill, Odette Pol Roger, Lady Waverley.

Dates: Nov 1964 - Nov 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts., Dec 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/597
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Christmas 1964 - correspondence Correspondents include Bernard Baruch, Lady Juliet Duff, Lady D'Erlanger, Christopher and Mary Soames and family, Randolph Churchill, Sir Michael Fraser, Conservative Research Department.

Dates: Dec 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-B., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/521
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include the Ministry of Aircraft Production on gift of badge given to workers in the Blackburn Group on production of the Swordfish aircraft; A V Alexander (later Lord Alexander of Hillsborough), First Lord of the Admiralty, on gift of cigars; Hervey Allen on gift of books; American Airlines on gift of globe; John Andrews on gift of booklet, "Ulster Sails West"; the town of Arta, Greece, on gift of fruit; Sir William Beveridge, on gift of book, "Full...
Dates: 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: A-B., 1880 - 29 Dec 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/399
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Kenneth Pickthorn (2); Frederick Leishman [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Sir Thomas White, High Commissioner for Australia; Odette Ayme-Belmonte (6); Bernard Baruch; [Kenneth] Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Norman Bentwich; Frank Beresford; John Biggs-Davison; Rhoda, Lady Birley; Frank de Vine Hunt; Enid Blyton; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham...
Dates: 1880 - 29 Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-B., 1880 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/407
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: John Priestman [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Helen, Lady Alderson; Frank Armstrong; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye [earlier Harold Balfour]; Victor Finney of the J Arthur Rank Organisation Limited; Gerald Nabarro; Viorel Tilea; Frank Beresford; Count Edward Reventlow, Danish Ambassador to Great Britain; Rhoda, Lady Birley; Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Hutton, Director of the British Productivity Council; William...
Dates: 1880 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-B., 1883 - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/415
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Konrad Adenauer; Terence Grady, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary; Leo Amery; John Priestman [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; John Bartholomew, Director of the Geographical Institute; Commander Allan Noble, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty; and Sir Alexander Cadogan, Chairman of the BBC.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned above and to Alice...
Dates: 1883 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-D., [1880] - Jan 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/394
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: [George] Gordon Allen; Colonel John Astor, [Chief Proprietor of] the Times; Brigadier Christopher Peto; Alan Campbell-Johnson; Robert Chapman; Dorothy Clements; Sir Denis Daley; Sir William Darling; and Somerset de Chair.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned above and to "Jimmie" 17th Duke of Alba, Richard Church and Sir James Dunn, Chairman and President of the Algoma [Canada] Steel Corporation...
Dates: [1880] - Jan 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-D., 1898 - May 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/434
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Terence Grady and John Graham [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; Anthony Arkell; Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill]; Guy Boas; Lillian Browse; Alan Campbell-Johnson; Alfred Cope, Managing Director of David Cope Limited (3); Howard Coster; Augustine Courtauld; Percy Cudlipp; Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale] regarding a gift from one of his constituents; Sir William Darling; Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake; and...
Dates: 1898 - May 1959
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-F., 1945 - Jul 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/371
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include Gwladys Abell, 1946; Grant Duff Douglas Ainslie, 1947; George Allen and Unwin Limited, Publishers, London, 1947; Nial Bartram, 1947; Basset-Lowke Ltd, 1947, Ernest Baumann, 1946, (2); Henry Bay, 1947; The Belgian Embassy, London, on gift of cigars from the Belgian Congo [later Zaire, then the Democratic Republic of the Congo], 1946, with photographs, 1946; Don Guilermo de Blanck, Cuban Minister, London, on gift of cigars, 1947; Walter Starkie, British...
Dates: 1945 - Jul 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-H., Jan 1948 - Aug 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/376
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Dorothy Allhusen, gift of marble paperweight formerly belonging to Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, with photograph; Ava, Lady Anderson, later Lady Waverley, gift of bottle of maple syrup; Janet, Lady Beveridge, gift of book "India Called Them"; James Boddy on gift of 18th century leaf from a Koran, taken from the battlefield of Omdurman; Marcel Boussac, on gift of champagne, after his horse had won the Winston Churchill Stakes at Hurst Park;...
Dates: Jan 1948 - Aug 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-I., 23 Nov 1949 - 11 Dec 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/385
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Aga Khan [III]; 17th Duke of Alba; [John] Edward Jackson [3rd Secretary, British Embassy, Paris, France] on a book by Albert Sorel; Winthrop Aldrich [Chairman of Board of Directors of the Chase National Bank]; Prince [Bernhard] of the Netherlands; Joseph Allen (3); General Wladyslaw Anders [former Commander, Polish forces in Iran and Palestine]; Baron Lothar Wimmer [Austrian Ambassador to Britain]; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles...
Dates: 23 Nov 1949 - 11 Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-J., Sep 1948 - Apr 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/378
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Leo Amery on gift of book; Maurice Ashley (2) on gift of book; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe], on gift of "ten gallon" hat from New Mexico; Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, on gift of honey from the Australian Honey Association; Vernon Bachman, on gift of painting of the birthplace of Leonard Jerome, Pompey, New York; Alfred Bossom MP, (2) on gift of books; Lord Rowallan, Chief Scout, on gift of book "The Left Handshake" on the...
Dates: Sep 1948 - Apr 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-J:., Mar 1949 - Nov 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/380
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Leo Amery on gift of his Presidential Address to the English Association, "Thought and Language"; Vernon Howe Bailey, on gift of book of watercolours and drawings of Spain; Mary Benjamin on gift of verses signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes (now Ref. WCHL 11/8); Cardigan Women's Unionist Association on gift of Welsh tweed; Fleur Cowles, enclosing photographs of paintings by her brother in law, Russell Cowles; Sir Wyndham Deedes on gift of book "A New Way...
Dates: Mar 1949 - Nov 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-J., [1880] - Aug 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/391
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: 1st Lord Adams [earlier John Adams], Secretary of the Cumberland Development Council Limited; Ivison Macadam, Editor of the Annual Review of World Events; Sir Michael Wright, British Ambassador to Norway; Waldorf Astor; John Biggs-Davison, of the Conservative Research Department; L Burgess of L G Burgess Limited (3); Bryce Nairn; G Campanile on a drink he would like to name after WSC (4); Walter Starkie, Director of the British Institute in Madrid...
Dates: [1880] - Aug 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-L., Jul 1947 - Dec 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/374
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Elaine Hunter [earlier Elaine Villiers and Elaine Guest], on gift of flowers; Edward da Costa Andrade, on a gift of a book, The Atom and Its Energy"; Colonel John J Astor (later Lord Astor of Hever) on gift of Volume III of the "History of The Times"; M C Avis, on gift of cigars and Bacardi; Raymond Boulton, Holman, Byfield & Co. Ltd., Warminster, Wilts, on gift of gloves; Sir Robert Cary, on gift of birthday cake, 1947; J O Cooper, on woven...
Dates: Jul 1947 - Dec 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-L., Dec 1949 - May 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/383
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Tufton Beamish MP [later Lord Chelwood] on gift of book; Colonel Rex Benson on gift of book; Janet, Lady Beveridge (2) on gift of book "Antipodes Notebook"; A L Bradford, United Press of America, on gift of cigars; Sir Norman Brook (later Lord Normanbrook) on gift of official war history "Problems of Social Policy" by R M Titmuss; Sir Herbert Williams MP (2), on gift from the Mayor of Brunswick, Georgia, United States; Lord Camrose,on gift of book;...
Dates: Dec 1949 - May 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-L., Dec 1950 - Apr 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/389
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: John Hay Beith [pen-name "Ian Hay"]; Frank Beresford; Anthony Berry, Director Berry Brothers and Rudd Limited; George Gordon Allen; Colin Coote, [Managing Editor] of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post; Cameron Cobbold [Governor of] the Bank of England; James Duncan [Chairman and President] Massey Harris Company; General [Bernard] Freyberg; Amy Guest; Raymond Guest; Rebecca Hacher (4); Henry Heinz, President H J Heinz Company; Walter Graebner,...
Dates: Dec 1950 - Apr 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-Z., 11 Jun 1951 - 31 Oct 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/393A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Vicomte Alain de Thieusies, Belgian Ambassador to Great Britain; "Jimmie" [17th] Duke of Alba; Brigadier-General Cecil Aspinall-Oglander; Morton Bernstein (3); Reginald Maudling; F Feilden (3); Amy Guest; Robert Lusty; Vivien, Lady Olivier [earlier Vivien Leigh]; John Nunneley of Staples Press Limited; and Arthur Sulzberger [publisher] of the New York Times.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned...
Dates: 11 Jun 1951 - 31 Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday and Christmas gifts:., Nov 1949 - Dec 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/382
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Willy Sax on gift of orchid; Thelma Cazalet-Keir on gift of plant; Ava, Lady Anderson (later Lady Waverley) on gift of book; Sir Alexander King o gift of cigars; Lord Queensbury on gift of book "Oscar Wilde and Black Douglas"; Audrey Pleydell Bouverie, on gift of pate de fois gras;.Christmas greeting telegrams from R A Butler, W Mackenzie King, Sir James Dunn and Sir Khizar Hayat Tiwana.File also includes list of birthday gifts, and copies of letters...
Dates: Nov 1949 - Dec 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Birthday and Christmas Gifts., 1955 - 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/440
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Viola Garvin; Oliver [1st] Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; "Willy" Sax; Major Henry Spence; Jane Welby; Stavros Niarchos; Sylvia Henley; "Prof" [1st Lord Cherwell, earlier Frederick Lindemann]; "Bernie" [Bernard] Baruch; Frank Rose; Brendan [1st Lord] Bracken; Charles [1st Lord] Moran [earlier Charles Wilson] and Diana [Lady] Moran [earlier Diana Wilson]; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham...
Dates: 1955 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access: Open