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 Includes committee minutes of statements made by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Balfour, Lord President of the Council, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal, Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton] President of the Board of Trade, on schemes of representation suitable for the circumstances in the dominions New Zealand,...

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Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: unemployment and unemployment insurance; immigration from Ireland; petrol prices; foreign affairs in China, Germany, India; the United States and the prohibition treaty; the reduction and limitation of armaments; the proposed Baghdad [Iraq] to Haifa [Israel] railway and pipeline; radium research; the Channel Tunnel; the report of the Commission on East Africa; and the budget.

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Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: measures to combat unemployment including emigration; a multi-lateral treaty with the United States; foreign affairs in Iraq, India, the Soviet Union, China, Egypt and Germany; the reduction and limitation of armaments; issues in Scotland including the slaughter of animals and the influx of emigrants from Ireland and issues in the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; and speeches by King George V.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including unemployment insurance, foreign policy and the likelihood of war with Germany (4); Sir Charles Ottley (Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence) on military forces in Ireland; Lord Crewe [earlier Lord Houghton, also Robert Milnes] on discussion of naval estimates; Oliver Locker-Lampson; Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] on dealings with Portugal; and Sir Edward Grey [Foreign...

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Subjects include: the draft agreement between Britain and Northern Ireland; the Compensation Commission; the resignation of the Irish Free State [later Ireland] representative on the Boundary Commission; fixing the boundary; exchanges of Catholic and Protestant population.

Scope and Contents Includes: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on compensation for those transferred to Northern Ireland; WSC on compensation; a Treasury note on compensation; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, on the obligation of the British Government to recognise the boundary; Francis Bourdillon, Secretary of the Irish Boundary Commission; James MacNeill, High Commissioner for the Irish Free State; Sir James Craig [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers in this class span the periods 1920-22 and 1924-29 and comprise papers acquired or produced by WSC in his capacity as a Cabinet Minister.Cabinet material and departmental Treasury material, however, have not been separated for WSC's period as Chancellor of the Exchequer (November 1924 to June 1929). This was due firstly to the fact that the Cabinet papers for this period were on the whole carefully preserved together, and it would have been undesirable to disturb this original...

Scope and Contents Includes papers from various individuals on the Irish Boundary Commission, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs; Francis Bourdillon, Secretary of the Irish Boundary Commission; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet; summaries of the conferences between the British and Irish Free State Governments; James MacNeill, High Commissioner for the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; Richard Feetham,...

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of statements made by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, [4th] Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] Lord Privy Seal, Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education and Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham] on compensation claims by Irish loyalists who had suffered through their loyalty to their British Government and the recommendations of the Dunedin Committee and the Wood-Renton Committee.Also includes: a statement by the Dominions Office; notes by [14th]...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: "F" [ Lord Chancellor, 1st Lord Birkenhead, earlier F E Smith]; [? Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India]; Wilfrid Scawen Blunt with suggestions for an Irish settlement; Thomas Hill; Sir John Anderson [Joint Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, later 1st Lord Waverley] on the Irish reception of the treaty.Also includes: a transcription of a speech made by the Lord Chancellor [1st Lord Birkenhead, earlier F E Smith] to a deputation on the Irish...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Shane Leslie on Irish fears of war if the treaty with Britain is rejected; 1st Lord Midleton [earlier St John Brodrick]; Clive Wigram [Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry to King George V] (3); Sir James Craig [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, later 1st Lord Craigavon] on subjects including Northern Ireland's part in the negotiations, Catholic shipyard workers, and the IRA killing of Special Constabulary officers at Clones [County Monaghan, Northern Ireland]...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Hamar Greenwood [Chief Secretary for Ireland] on the disbandment of the Royal Irish Constabulary (2); Rupert Gwynne [Conservative MP for Eastbourne, Sussex]; Alfred Cope [Assistant Under-Secretary for Ireland and Clerk of the Privy Council for Ireland] on the progress of the negotiations; Sir Herbert Creedy [Secretary of the War Office] on the stores of arms and ammunition at Carrickfergus [County Antrim, Northern Ireland]; 10th Lord Cavan [Chief of the Imperial...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on the Irish Distress Committee; Michael Collins on discourtesy over the institution of the neutral area in Pettigo [County Donegal and County Fermanagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland] and Belleek [County Armagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland], and on the Local Government Bill for Northern Ireland (2); Sir James Craig [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, later 1st Lord Craigavon] on the costs of the Special Constabulary (2); Alfred...

Scope and Contents "A report on the Intelligence Branch of the Chief of Police from May 1920 to July 1921". Includes observations about: the difficulties of obtaining and disseminating information about underground organisations in Ireland including the IRA, Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Brotherhood; the differences between counter-espionage activities during wartime and the circumstances in Ireland; and difficulties for the police. Includes instances of the successful use of intelligence information in...

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Includes a booklet of printed extracts from House of Commons debates on the Home Rule Bill which includes speeches by Joseph Chamberlain, William Gladstone, Arthur Balfour and Lord Randolph Churchill (printed in 1911) and manuscript notes by "a lawyer" on the correct interpretation of individual statutes of the 1893 Bill covering all aspects of administration in Ireland.

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Includes: a transcript of a speech by [Robert, 3rd] Lord Salisbury on policy regarding Ireland (1885); a copy of the 1886 Government of Ireland Bill; copies of the 1893 Government of Ireland Bill incorporating various amendments; and the 1907 Irish Council Bill.

Scope and Contents Printed Cabinet papers on Irish Home Rule and related subjects including: revenue and expenditure in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1891 to 1908; the collection and expenditure of imperial revenue in Great Britain and Ireland; the division of powers between central and provincial authorities in federal Colonial constitutions in the British empire; papers by WSC on devolution; draft bills on the government of Ireland; a report by the Committee on Irish finance and minutes of evidence...

Scope and Contents Includes Cabinet papers on: Irish finance and the powers of the Irish Parliament; objections to the Home Rule Bill by Arthur Balfour and Reginald McKenna [First Lord of the Admiralty]; objections from Irish MPs to the Government of Ireland Bill and the establishment of an Irish Parliament; financial clauses of the bill and an Irish exchequer; a copy of the Government of Ireland bill; a pamphlet of speeches delivered in honour of John Redmond; 3 official reports of parliamentary debates in...

Scope and Contents Includes: manuscript notes by Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] and WSC on land purchase in Ireland; copies of the 1903 Irish Land Act and the 1907 Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Act; notes for the framing of the 1908 Irish Land Bill including measures to relieve congested districts, financial arrangements for land purchase in Ireland, amendments to previous legislation and amendments proposed by the House of Lords; notes by James Bryce on the increase of offences involving fire-arms in...

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on Irish Land Purchase, including: WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer (3); Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to WSC] (3); 3rd Lord Oranmore and Browne [1st Lord Mereworth, representative peer for Ireland] (4); notes of the deputation from the Irish Landowners' Convention's meeting with the Cabinet Committee on Ireland; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to WSC] (2); Geoffrey Whiskard, Dominions Office; Gilbert Upcott [Deputy Controller, Treasury];...

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Includes papers from various individuals on compensation to Loyalists, including: Lord Eustace Percy; Geoffrey Whiskard, Dominions Office; WSC; [?] 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne]; Gilbert Upcott, Deputy Controller, Treasury; 2nd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer]; the conclusions of the meeting of the Irish Loyalists Committee.Also includes: House of Lords Official Reports of Parliamentary Debates, on claims for compensation in Ireland.

Scope and Contents Includes papers from various individuals on unemployment insurance in Northern Ireland, including: minutes and conclusions of the committee; Wilfrid Spender [Head of the Civil Service, Northern Ireland]; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour; the report of the sub-committee on the amalgamation of social services; a draft of the Unemployment Insurance (Northern Ireland Agreement) Bill; Sir James Craig [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, later 1st Lord Craigavon], on unemployment...

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Includes: the conclusions of the committee; a draft of the Unemployment Insurance (Northern Ireland Agreement) Bill; a Treasury note on the estimated financial effect of the Unemployment Insurance Agreement.

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: an extract from a speech by Lord Randolph Churchill on the power of urban landlords; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the supply of coastal defence vessels and submarine mines to the Soviet Union, and on the provisional programme of Board of Trade legislation; Sir Vincent Caillard, director of Vickers Limited, on the supply of arms to...