Scope and Contents Correspondence on mentions of ELS in histories of the First World War, also relating to his Alsatian dog, Rex. Correspondents include 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]. Also includes copies of letters relating to ELS from the First World War, with letters from Winston Churchill (1915-16), on trying to get ELS promoted and his admiration for him (originals at SPRS 1/76), from Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Imperial War Cabinet] on the value of his work (original at...

Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Sport, the stimulant" on the effect of modern inventions on the average person, watching, playing, and making money from sport, pigeon racing, angling, motor transport, hiking, cycling, theatre, cinema, radio, reading, and moral considerations; "Why the navy runs on oil" on the advantages of oil over coal as a fuel for ships, its adoption by the Royal Navy during WSC's first term as First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Anglo-Persian oil...

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WSC on a polo pony, carrying a polo stick.

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Photo of WSC swimming with a dog. The image is poor quality.

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Annotated photograph showing Christopher Soames with Colonist II [WSC's racehorse] and jockey, T. Hawcroft.

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Includes: papers relating to various properties owned by CS and MS, mainly Castle Mill House, Hampshire; accounts; papers relating to the settlement of the estate of MS's sister Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp], and letters of condolence on her death; papers on general family legal and financial affairs; papers on MS's literary contracts and copyright; correspondence on portraits and statues of Sir Winston Churchill.

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Exterior photo showing Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill] wearing a tweed jacket and skirt next to a cow.

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Includes suggested replies to questions put to Conservative candidates on a variety of issues including: disarmament arbitration; war debts and reparations; the Kellogg pact; employment of young people; talking films; tied cottages; service pensions; cruelty to animals; taxation of liquor and policy regarding prohibition; education policy; widows and orphans funds; lunacy reform; co-operative societies; motor taxation; and state aid for the deaf.Also includes a letter from Rupert Howorth.

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Correspondents: Captain George Riddell (5) and Alfonso Gandolfi-Hornyold (3) of the Boma Trading Company Limited; Photius Zaphiro [British Southern Abyssinian (later Ethiopian) Frontier Inspector].

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Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell [Jockey Club Steward] (4); Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (2); Charles Hardisty [HM Customs and Excise]; Francis Weatherby, Secretary to the Jockey Club.Subjects covered by the file include: the yield if the tax had been levied differently; the level of evasion; clubs not paying betting duty.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (16); John Davidson [Parliamentary Secretary, Admiralty] (2); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (5); Pembroke Wicks (3); Sir William Graham-Harrison [Second Parliamentary Counsel to Treasury]; Ronald McNeill [later 1st Lord Cushendun, Financial Secretary, Treasury]; Lord Elveden [later 2nd Iveagh]; 17th Lord Derby; 6th Lord Carnarvon [earlier Lord Porchester].Also...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell [Jockey Club Steward] (2); Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (9); 17th Lord Derby; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (3); Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne] (2).Also includes: Turf Guardian Society notes; press cuttings.Subjects covered by the file include: the views of the Betting Duty Reform Association; betting turnover and profits; problems in the administration...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: W J Randall, Managing Director and Secretary of the Turf Guardian Society (6); John Davidson [Conservative Party Chairman] (3); 5th Lord Lonsdale; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (5); Sir Philip Dawson MP; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne]; 17th Lord Derby; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (6); Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC]; 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell [Jockey Club Steward].Also...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (14); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Patrick Hannon MP.Also includes: cuttings from papers including the Sporting Life and the Sporting Chronicle; copy of the official report of the House of Lords for the second reading of the betting bill; copy of supplementary notes on betting duty...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, until mid-1927] (11); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (7); Sir William Mitchell-Thomson [later 1st Lord Selsdon, Postmaster-General and Chief Civil Commissioner]; Charles Hardisty [HM Customs and Excise] (5); Frank Newsam [Private Secretary to the Home Secretary]; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Attorney-General [Sir...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (7); Charles Hardisty [HM Customs and Excise]; Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (2); John Davidson [Conservative Party Chairman]; 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell [Jockey Club Steward] (2).Also includes: newspaper cuttings; draft of the Race Course Betting Act 1928; copy of a Cabinet minute.Subjects covered by the file include: the totalisator; details of Jockey Club...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Charles Hardisty [HM Customs and Excise] (2); John Davidson [Conservative Party Chairman]; Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (9); Attorney-General, Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham]; Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; bookmakers' representatives, including Ladbroke and Company (4), the Northern Bookmakers' and Backers' Protection Association (2), the National Sporting League, and the Betting Duty Reform...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (10); Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (3); Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (7); Charles Hardisty [HM Customs and Excise] (2); Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Archibald Bodkin; 1st Lord D'Abernon [Chairman Thoroughbred Horse-breeders' Association] (2).Also includes: cutting from the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne, Lord Privy Seal]; 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell [Jockey Club Steward] (4); Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, until mid-1927] (5); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (4); Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, from latter part of 1927] (2).Also includes: notes of interviews between Sir Horace Hamilton and the Jockey Club and the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of the Betting Duty Reform Association, the Bookmakers' and Backers' Racecourse Protection Society (Southern Branch), the National Sporting League, and the Turf Guardian Society; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (3); Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (3); Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes: a newspaper cutting.Subjects covered by the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (5); Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; representatives of the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association including its Chairman, 1st Lord D'Abernon, (4) and the Hunters' Improvement and National Light Horse Breeding Society (3).Also includes: Thoroughbred Breeders' Association 1926 AGM report; cutting from the Sporting Life; a summary of proceedings at the deputation from...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (4); Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (8); 5th Lord Lonsdale (2); Alexander Maxwell [Assistant Secretary, Home Office]; Charles Hardisty [HM Customs and Excise]; John Lidgett, Honorary Secretary, and Thomas Nightingale, General Secretary, of the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches; 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell [Jockey Club Steward].Also includes: notes...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (10); Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, until mid-1927] (2); Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Gaunt; Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise, from latter part of 1927] (5); 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell [Jockey Club Steward] (6); Sir Benjamin Hawkins [Solicitor to the Board of Customs and Excise]; Ralph Glyn MP (2); Sir William Joynson Hicks [later 1st Lord...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (3); 1st Lord D'Abernon, Chairman Thoroughbred Horse-breeders' Association; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services, Treasury]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (5); 17th Lord Derby.Also includes: details of the light horse breeding scheme; Newmarket [Suffolk] December sales 1926.Subjects covered by the file include: the furtherance of horse breeding; the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (14); Ralph Glyn MP (2); 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell [Jockey Club Steward] (11); Charles Hardisty [HM Customs and Excise] (3); Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] (5); Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (4); Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue].Also includes: government report on the first year of the betting...