Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents Denise Holt was born on 1 October 1949, the daughter of William Dennis and Mary Joanna Mills; she was educated at New Hall School, Chelmsford [Essex] and the University of Bristol. In 1987 she married David Holt, having one son.She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1970 and her diplomatic career included: Research Analyst, initially on the Iberian desk, 1970–84; First Secretary, Dublin [Ireland], 1984–87; Head of Section, FCO, 1988–90; First Secretary, Brasilia...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents David Reddaway was born 26 April 1953, the son of George Frank Norman Reddaway, CBE and Jean Reddaway, OBE (née Brett). He was educated at Oundle School (Scholar.) and Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (Exhibitioner; MA History). In 1981 he married (1st), Roshan Taliyeh Firouz (marriage dissolved 2019), having two sons and one daughter; and (2nd), 2020, Gabrielle O’Driscoll.Reddaway joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975 and his diplomatic career...

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)], to J L Garvin [Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and the Observer], on Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, regretting that it had not been possible to promote him to Admiral of the Fleet, as he had "injured his profession and disgraced himself too much". WSC also comments on Garvin's treatment of WSC's policy in the Pall Mall Gazette, gives details of the naval building programme and superiority over Germany and comments on the Conservative threat of using force in...

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Letter from Rev. T Gordon Sharpe, Rector of Ardclinis, Carnlough, County Antrim, to WSC, asking if he was willing to contribute to the Parish's Sustentation Fund and the Sunday School Prize Fund, as Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest had in the past.

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Photograph of Carnlough [Co. Antrim] lime quarries and men at work 6" x 8" b/w.

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Photograph of Carnlough Lime and Whiting Works, Carnlough, Co. Antrim [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of Carnlough Harbour, Country Antrim, with the S.S. Olderfleet, belonging to the Carnlough Lime Works Co. Ltd [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of The Whiting Works, Carnlough Lime Works Co. Ltd, County Antrim [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of Carnlough quarries and the Mountain River, County Antrim [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of lime quarries and kilns, Carnlough, County Antrim [6" x 8" b/w.

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Photograph of lime quarries and kilns, Carnlough, County Antrim, [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of the Crushing Plant at Carnlough Lime Quarries, County Antrim [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of Carnlough Harbour, County Antrim, with the S.S. Olderfleet, belonging to the Carnlough Lime Works Co. Ltd [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of Carnlough, County Antrim, from the quarries, with Ballygally Head and Glenarm Head in the background, [6" x 8" b/w].

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on her holiday in the South of France, particularly on tennis tournament at Nice, also commenting on the Irish situation.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on WSC's stay in France; French politics and the death of Arthur Griffith and its effect on Irish politics.

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Letter from Lord Londonderry to WSC, on valuation of the Garron Tower plate by Garrards, also commenting on the political situation in Ireland.

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Letter from [?] Augustine Birrell [Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] (Dublin Castle), to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], reporting a rumour that 5 tons of small arms ammunition had been removed from HMS Pathfinder (one of the ships sent to protect the Irish coast), by Orangemen during an "entertainment" on board.

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Letter from Augustine Birrell [Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on rumours of an impending coup in Ulster, stating that it was unlikely that the Third Reading of the Home Rule Bill would pass without some "theatricality".

Scope and Contents Minute from Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore [3rd Sea Lord] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the report by Augustine Birrell [Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] on the rumour that 5 tons of small arms ammunition had been taken from HMS Pathfinder by Orangemen in Northern Ireland. Moore rejects calls for an official enquiry. Also includes WSC's reply, commenting that the captain of HMS Pathfinder had "shown much less than usual naval dignity and self restraint", but that...

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Letter from Stephen Gwynn, [MP for Galway City, Ireland] (House of Commons), to WSC, [First Lord of the Admiralty], on Galway Harbour's suitability as a naval base; includes copy of resolution passed by Galway Urban District Council inviting WSC to inspect the harbour.