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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: Gifts: Correspondence T-W., 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/567
Scope and Contents Correspondents concerning gifts to WSC include: Guy Millard of the Foreign Office advising on gifts from abroad; [5th Duke of] Palmella, Portuguese Ambassador to Great Britain; [1st Lord] Templewood [earlier Samuel Hoare], British Ambassador to Spain; Francis Turnbull, Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for India; "Chopper" [7th Duke of Portland, earlier Lord Tichfield]; Bernard Barnes, Director of the United States Office of War Information in London; Bernard Sendall,...
Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts E-H., 10 Oct 1951 - 31 Jan 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/395
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Herbert Ernst; Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited; [Kenneth] Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Joyce Hall, President, Hallmark Cards; "Bomber" Sir Arthur Harris; Henry Heinz, President H J Heinz Company; Robert Hadow, Consul General [for South California and Arizona]; and Lionel Horton-Smith.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned...
Dates: 10 Oct 1951 - 31 Jan 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts E-H., 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/409A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Charles Eade, Director of Associated Newspapers Limited; Maurice Edelman; William Bennett, Chairman of Essex County Council; Frederick Fisher (3); George Moseley; Louis Golding; Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International]; Joyce Hall, President, Hallmark Cards; Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, Chairman of the Harmsworth Press; Henry Harrison; Herbert Haseltine; Sylvia Henley; Ralph Hodder-Williams, Chairman of Hodder and...
Dates: 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts E-H., 1954 - May 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/435
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Sir Ian Fraser; Leonard Elgood, Director of the Distillers' Company Limited; J Ransome, Secretary of the Federation of British Carpet Manufacturers (4); Terence Grady (2) and John Graham (3) [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; George Fisher (5); Sir Oliver Franks; Victor Gollancz; Douglas Guthrie; Sir Gavin de Beer, Director of the British Museum of Natural History; Bernard Hailstone with a photograph of his portrait of WSC;...
Dates: 1954 - May 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts F-I., 1883 - Dec 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/401A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Maria Floris (3); Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited; Dorothy Foot; Oswald Frewen; Louis Golding; Victor Gollancz; Colonel Maurice Grant (3); David Green (4); Amy Guest; John Gunther; 2nd Lord Haig [earlier Lord Dawick]; Hamish Hamilton, Managing Director of Hamish Hamilton Limited; Sir Roy Harrod; Herbert Haseltine (4); Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Lionel Horton-Smith; Henry Laughlin, Houghton...
Dates: 1883 - Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts G-J., 1887 - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/417
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Evelyn Shuckburgh, Foreign Office; Andrew Stark [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary] (4); El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech [Marrakesh, Morocco]; Victor Gollancz, President of Victor Gollancz Limited; David Guthrie (3); Hamish Hamilton, Chairman of Hamish Hamilton Limited; Air Commodore Arthur Vere Harvey; Robert Hilton of John Edgington and Company Limited (3)...
Dates: 1887 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts G-M., 1945 - 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/372
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Walter Garnar, 1946; Gerald Verney, on gift of History of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade 1946; W Dalkmann and Thomas Walden on gift of cigars made for Hermann Goering, 1946; Major-General Sir Francis de Guingand, on gift of book "Operation Victory", 1947; Keith Hancock, on gift of book "New Zealand at War", 1946; Averell Harriman, on gift of champagne, 1947; Sir Percy Harris, on gift of memoir, "Forty Years in and out of Parliament", 1947; F A de Vine...
Dates: 1945 - 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Gifts awaited., Feb 1952 - Feb 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/432
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC which were not received) include: Terence Grady and John Priestman [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary] concerning gifts from overseas; Ralph Hodder-Williams, Chairman of Hodder and Stoughton Limited; and Sir Max Aitken, Vice-Chairman of the Daily Express.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; press cuttings on WSC's 80th birthday and presents to him (including a portrait of WSC by Graham...
Dates: Feb 1952 - Feb 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Golden Wedding and Birthday., 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/442
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC and congratulations on his and CSC's golden wedding) include: Julian Sandys, Edwina Sandys and Celia Sandys; Duncan Sandys; Antonio Giraudier (3); Henry Luce; James Drawbell, Managing Editor of Newnes and Pearson's; "Pug" [1st Lord Ismay] and Kathleen [Lady] Ismay; Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited; Marcel Boussac; "Willy" Sax; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Violet, Lady Hardy; Winifred Stables (3); Clement Flower; Sir...
Dates: 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts H-L., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/523
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include Sir Victor Mallett, British Minister, Stockholm, Sweden, on gift book by Knut Hagsberg; Roy Harrod, on gift of book; Friedrich Hayek on gift of book; Sir Austin Hudson MP, on gift of walking stick from constituent, Idris Jones; Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador, Belgium, on gift of photograph of bulldog decorated with the flags of the allies; "Chopper", [the 7th Duke of Portland] on gift from the Inter-Services Club, Nottingham; Lord...
Dates: 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts I-K, 1897 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/410
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Anne, Lady Islington; "Pug" [1st] Lord Ismay and Kathleen, Lady Ismay; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Great Britain; Herbert Jerichow, Managing Director of Tuborg Breweries; Robert Lusty, Deputy Chairman of Michael Joseph Limited; 1st Lord Kemsley [earlier Sir James Berry, Editor in Chief Sunday Times]; James Armstrong, Agent-General for Ontario [Canada]; [William] Stephen King-Hall; William Kirk (3); Professor [George] Wilson Knight;...
Dates: 1897 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts I-L., 1954 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/436
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: [1st Lord] Ismay; Brian Goddard, Secretary of the Winston Churchill 80th birthday presentation fund; and Eric Kennington.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; newspaper cuttings (including an article about WSC and Dwight Eisenhower); photographs; pamphlets about the Catholic religion; paintings and sketches; portraits of WSC; a copy letter from Rudyard Kipling; and notes and copies of...
Dates: 1954 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts I-O., 06 Apr 1951 - 29 Jan 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/396
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: George Keating (5); Jacqueline, Lady Killearn; Sir Alan Lascelles, Private Secretary to King George VI; Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International]; Miss McLees regarding a gift from Sir James Lithgow (3); John Lockhart; Henry Luce of Time-Life International; 1st Lord Marchwood [earlier Frederick Penny]; Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Moore; Sir Clive Morrison-Bell; Sydney Moseley; Bernard Myers; Leander...
Dates: 06 Apr 1951 - 29 Jan 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts I-Z., Jan 1948 - Aug 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/377
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Professor John Jewkes, on gift of book "Ordeal by Planning", Simon Ramsay MP, on proposed gift of gold boxing gloves from Joe Louis, with press cuttings on Louis' visit to London [gift declined by WSC, note annotated "I am not going to fight anyone. I am not in fabour of prize fighting. I am not in favour of niggers either"]; Sir John Marshall, on gift of ancient Indian coin, bearing the earliest known example of the "V for Victory" sign; Eleanor...
Dates: Jan 1948 - Aug 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts J-L., 1850 - 24 Dec 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/402
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: [Kenneth] Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Robert Lusty; W Keatinge-Clay (4); Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; Sir Alexander King; [William] Stephen King-Hall; Sir Alexander Korda; Rom Landau; Henry Laughlin [President of Houghton Mifflin Company]; John Leslie; and Shane Leslie.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC and CSC to the individuals mentioned above and to...
Dates: 1850 - 24 Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts K-N., 1900 - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/418
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Sir Alexander Korda; Evelyn Leaman (4); Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; David Low; Ann Whitman, Personal Secretary to President Dwight Eisenhower; Harvey Jamieson, Secretary of the Company of merchants in the city of Edinburgh [Scotland]; Sir Clifford Radcliffe, Clerk of Middlesex County Council; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore; Brendan Bracken; Edgar Beck, Director of John Mowlem and Company Limited; and...
Dates: 1900 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts K-Z:., Sep 1948 - Apr 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/379
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Samuel Kaplan, on gift of cigars and whisky; A E King, on copy of letter from Sergeant-Major A Brockie to his parents on WSC's escape from the Boers in 1899; Fred Lipmann, enclosing photographs of WSC, "Rufus" the poodle and the garden at Chartwell; Evelyn Waugh, on gift of cigars from Henry Luce; Reginald Maudling on gift of Armagnac; John Beasley, Australian High Commissoner, London, on gift of lambswool covered book from the Mayor of Melbourne, on...
Dates: Sep 1948 - Apr 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts K-Z:., Mar 1949 - Nov 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/381
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Rene Massigli, French Ambassador, London, on gift of portrait of WSC in marquetry; Edith, Lady Londonderry on gift of gold cigar cutter formerly belonging to the late Lord Londonderry; Reginald Maudling on gift of 1913 Cognac; Fitzroy Maclean on gift of book; The Hon. Sam Rayburn, Speaker, US House of Representatives, on gift of cartoon; Benjamin Rosenthal, United States Playing Card Co., on gift of playing cards; Spyros Skouras, President 20th...
Dates: Mar 1949 - Nov 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts K-Z., [1880] - Aug 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/392
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Alfred Knopf; Mary Ladele (3); [Alfred] Ernest Marples; Robert Lusty, Deputy Chairman of Michael Joseph Limited; Rubeigh Minney; Peter Smithers; Samuel Porter, Lord Justice of Appeal, Supreme Court of Northern Ireland; Alfred Greenham, Assistant Trade Commissioner for Southern Australia on a gift of lamb; Gerald O'Brien, Press Officer, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Stanley Wagner on tropical fish (3); and Jonathan Cape, Chairman...
Dates: [1880] - Aug 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts L-N., Dec 1952 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/411A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Margaret Lethwaite; Robert Menzies; Mohammed Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan; Dorothy, Lady Moran [earlier Dorothy Wilson]; Sir John Lei Hop, Agent General for Victoria [Australia]; Hector McNeil; John Neale, Astor Professor of English History, University of London; [6th] Lord Nelson; Lord Rupert Nevill; E Rhodes-Wood (4) of the New Zealand legion of frontiersmen and J Morrison (3) of the Commonwealth Relations Office on the presentation of a...
Dates: Dec 1952 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts: Lists of gifts (including 80th Birthday)., Jan 1954 - Apr 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/433
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Includes: typescript and manuscript lists giving details of gifts sent to WSC, information about the sender and the date the present was received; and notes from John Colville [Private Secretary to WSC] and R McHale [Secretary to WSC] on WSC's desire to see gifts and the disposal of unwanted presents.

Dates: Jan 1954 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts M-N., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/524
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Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include Colonel J B Machado, Brazilian Chief of Staff, on gift of cigars; the Maori Children of Waiomo Native School, New Zealand, on gift of walking stick; Allan Michie, on gift of book "Keep the Peace Through Air Power".File also includes notes and replies by WSC's Personal and Private Office staff including John Peck, Grace Hamblin, E M Watson, John Colville, Leslie Rowan, Cmmander Charles Thompson, Kathleen Hill, and George Harvie-Watt.

Dates: 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts M-O, 1890 - Dec 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/403
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Don Salvador de Madariaga; Ella Maillart; Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary Cadogan]; Lieutenant-General Sir Giffard Martel; George Mikes; Sir Thomas More; 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson] and Dorothy, Lady Moran [earlier Dorothy Wilson]; "Dickie" [Lord Mountbatten of Burma, last Viceroy of India]; Ivison Macadam, Director General of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; Sir Arthur MacNalty; Reverend George Appleton;...
Dates: 1890 - Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts M-O., 1955 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/437
Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Pierre Dupuy, Canadian Ambassador to France; Fernande Letourneau (3); Terence Grady and John Graham [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; William McAdam, Agent General for British Columbia; Fritz Meili (3); Robert Lusty, Vice-Chairman of Michael Joseph Limited; Wallace Nesbitt; and Walter Noble (3).Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above and to [6th] Lord Nelson; postcards; pamphlets;...
Dates: 1955 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts M-Z., Jul 1947 - Dec 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/375
Scope and Contents Correspondents (on gifts to WSC) include: Ernest Marples, on gift of book; Reginald Maudling on gift of cognac; Sir Richard Pim on gift of woodcock; A L Rowse, on gift of book "The End of an Epoch"; Sir Arthur Salter on gift of book, "Personality and Politics"; George Scorer on gift of printed Harrow School list, Apr 1890 (retained); S Paul Shipley on gift of booklet "Bristol's Bombed Churches"; Sir William Rootes on gift of turkeys; Sir Francis Beane, on gift of brandy from George Taylor;...
Dates: Jul 1947 - Dec 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open