Political patronage
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Freedoms received N-R., 1941 - 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/360
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File includes: Correspondence and papers on award of Citizenship of Honour of Nancy, France, particularly with Lionel Pelerin (6), Senateur-Maire, 1950;.Correspondence and papers on Freedom of Perth, Scotland, 1948, particularly with Lord Provost, John Ure Primrose, (6), including draft of his speech at admission ceremony, May 1948, with press cuttings (13) on announcement of award;.Correspondence and papers on Freedom of Portsmouth, 1941-50, particularly with successive Lord Mayors, R J...
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1941 - 1951
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Freedoms received S:., 1941 - 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/361
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Correspondence and papers on Freedom of Sheffield, 1943-51, particularly with John Heys, Town Clerk, (12) and Alderman Keeble Hawson, Lord Mayor, (5), mainly on arrangements for admission ceremony, Sheffield City Hall, Apr 1951, letters from Lord Woolton, Chairman of the Conservative Party, (2) on the political situation in Sheffield, 1947, urging him to go to Sheffield to receive the freedom accepted in 1943, correspondence with Stella, Lady Reading, Women's Voluntary Service for Civil...
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1941 - 1951
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Freedoms received W:., 1941 - 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/362
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Correspondence and papers on Freedom of Westminster, 1945-46, particlarly with successive Mayors, Douglas Wood (2) and Edward Keeling MP, (7) and Town Clerk, Sir Parker Morris (4), on admission ceremony, Church House, Westminster, May 1946;.Correspondence and papers on Freedom of Worcester, 1945-50, including correspondence with Conservative and Unionist Central Office, and British Railways on travel arrangements and expenses, printed programme for admission ceremony, Guildhall, Worcester,...
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1941 - 1951
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Public and Political: General: Patronage Garter., 1953 - 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/335
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File includes Correspondence with Sir Ivan De La Bere, Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood (4), on return of Garter Insignia after WSC's death, 1953 and the replacement of his "Lesser George Badge" following burglary at 28 Hyde Park Gate, 1959; Sir Alan Lascelles, PS to Queen Elizabeth II, on covenant to return Garter Insignia after WSC's death, 1953; The Ministry of Education on loan of the 1st Duke of Marlborough's Garter George from Apsley House for WSC to wear at the Coronation,...
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1953 - 1960
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Public and Political: General: Patronage Ge-Har., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/336
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File includes correspondence with: Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, on election as Honorary Member, with photograph of presentation casket, 1952; Glasgow Unionist Association, on naming of their Headquarters "Churchill Hall", 1955; Gloucester Cathedral Fabric Appeal Fund, on support for appeal, 1955; Gray's Inn, on activities as a Master of the Bench, mainly dinner invitations, 1952-55; The Greek Earthquake Appeal, particularly Lady Norton, Organising Secretary (2) Sydney Butler, and Philip...
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Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Hallmark 90th Birthday Exhibition, New York and other projects., Jan 1964 - Jan 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/589A-B
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Correspondents (on various fund-raising and commemorative projects) include: Sir Francis Fogarty, Director of the English Speaking Union; Joyce Hall (7) and David Strout (11) of Hallmark cards on the New York [United States] exhibition marking WSC's 90th birthday; Christopher Everett; [John] Nicholas Henderson [Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary]; [5th Lord] Harlech [earlier William Ormsby Gore] British Ambassador to the United States; Denis Kelly [former literary assistant to WSC];...
Dates:
Jan 1964 - Jan 1965
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Public and Political: General: Patronage Har-Hur., 1940 - Apr 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/318
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File includes correspondence with: Harrow School, including correspondence with Head Masters Ralph Moore (21) and Paul Boissier (18) on WSC's visits to the School for "songs", 1940-1950, dinner for Old Harrovians of the Head Master's House, 1950, letter to "The Times" (signed but not sent) on report of speech at Harrow, Nov 1950; Charles Ian Orr-Ewing MP on dinner for Old Harrovian MPs, 1950; Anthony de Rothschild (Trustee Harrow Association) (3) and Evelyn de Rothschild (Editor) on letter...
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1940 - Apr 1952
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Public and Political: General: Patronage Hau-Hy., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/337
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File includes correspondence with: The Haute Academie Latine Internationale, offering post of President of Honour (declined), 1955; The University Of Hawaii, asking him to speak, and offering honorary degree, (declined) 1955; Dirk Stikker, Netherlands Ambassador, London, on naming street in the town of Helmond, Noord-Brabant after him, 1955; Lord Hertford, (2) on appeal for funds for the Hertford British Hospital, Paris, France, 1963; The Highlands School, Eldoret, Kenya, on naming house...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political: General: Patronage I-K., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/338
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File includes correspondence with: The Illustrated London News on reproduction of WSC's 1951 Royal Academy picture "Magnolia - circa 1931", 1951; The Imperial Cancer Research Fund, particularly Arthur Dickson Wright, Hon. Treasurer (2) on appointment as Life Governor, 1956; Industrial Administration (R & A) Ltd on the Engineering Industries Association Group Apprenticeship Scheme; J E S Simon MP (later Lord Simon of Glaisdale), invitation to annual dinner of Inns of Court Conservative...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: International Mark Twain Society., 1940 - 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/352
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File includes correspondence with: Cyril Clemens, (34) 1940-56, with article "Winston Churchill and Mark Twain", and pamphlets, "Mark Twain and Harry S Truman" and "Mark Twain and Franklin D Roosevelt", with note stating that the International Mark Twain Society was a "figment of the imagination of Cyril Clemens, who was probably the only active member, letters from Andrew Stark Foreign Office, (3) stating that the United States State Department had warned Clemens against further fraudulent...
Dates:
1940 - 1958
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Public and Political: General: Patronage M., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/341
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File includes correspondence with: Professor Michael Knowles on appeal for funds to establish a George Macaulay lectureship at Cambridge University, 1958; Madame Tussaud's requesting permission to display model of WSC wearing Garter Robes, 1955; The Main Line Junior Chamber of Commerce, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA, on award of "Distinguished Service Award", 1955; Lady Tedder, enclosing Report on the financial position of the Malcolm Clubs, RAF, 1958; The Borough of Malden and Coome, Surrey,...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: N-Prim., 1939 - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/306
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Correspondence on Patronage: File includes correspondence with: The National Poets Memorial of the United States of America, 1942; Lord Mackintosh of Halifax on the National Savings Committee, 1948; The National Society of Conservative and Unionist Agents, on subscription as Vice President, 1944; The town of Naupactos, Greece, on freedom of the town, 1946; Admiral Sir Harold Burrough on election as an Honorary Life Member of the Naval and Military Club, Piccadilly, London, 1946; Sir Graham...
Dates:
1939 - 1948
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Na-Ni., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/342
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File includes correspondence with: The National Baby Welfare Council, agreeing to act as President during time in Office as Prime Minister, with copy of magazine "Mother and Child", 1954; Lord Stanhope (2), The National Maritime Museum asking him to sit for portrait, in Naval uniform, with photograph of John Leigh Pemberton's copy of portrait of WSC in uniform of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1952-54 Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning (2) and Lord Luke on invitation to...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political: General: Patronage No-O:., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/343
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File includes correspondence with: The Nobel Institute, on award of Nobel Prize for Literature, with covering note by John Colville, contribution of foreword to new English biography of Alfred Nobel, booklet "The Nobel Prizes and their Founder, Alfred Nobel" by Fritz Henriksson, correspondence with Henry Laughlin, Houghton Mifflin Co., (2) on publication of his speech accepting award, and Derick Heathcoat Amory on proposed award of the Peace Prize to Lady Baden Powell, 1953-59; North...
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Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political; General: Patronage P-Q., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/344
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File includes correspondence with: The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, on award of honorary degree, 1955; The Philadelphia Business Club, on award as International Man of the Year, 1958; The Rev R W Woods, Archdeacon, St Andrew's Cathedral, on donation towards Memorial towards Admiral Sir Tom Phillips and the men of HMS "Prince of Wales", 1955; The Pilgrim John Howland Society, invitation to become an honorary member, 1955; Sir Campbell Stuart, Chairman, on dinner for the Pilgrims,...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political: General: Patronage P-Royal Academy., 1947 - Apr 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/323
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File includes correspondence with The Pilgrims, particularly Lord Greenwood (Chairman) (3) and Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, on unveiling of the Memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt, 194, and Dinners to Mrs Roosevelt, 1946 and 1948; The Burren Pipe Band, Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland, asking for permission to style itself "The Right Honourable Winston S Churchill Pipe Band", 1950; The Pitt Club, London, printed rules and list of members 1950-51; Sir Douglas...
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1947 - Apr 1952
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Primrose League:., 1951 - 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/368
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Correspondence and papers on WSC's activities as Grand Master of the Primrose League, including: Correspondence with Lord Chesham, Chancellor, Primrose League (11) and Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister, on meeting of Grand Habitation, Royal Albert Hall, Apr 1958; letters from the General Public (15 pro and 8 anti) on WSC's speech to the Grand Habitation of the Primrose League, in which WSC defended the Government's actions during the Suez Crisis, May 1957; correspondence with Lord Chesham and...
Dates:
1951 - 1962
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Queen's Royal Irish Hussars., Jan 1954 - Dec 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/585A-B
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Correspondents include: Brigadier John Scott Cockburn (15); General Sir Cameron Nicholson, Adjutant-General to the Forces, on the allocation of officer cadets; Lieutenant-General "Loopy" G Kennard reporting on the regiment (17); Lieutenant-Colonel A White inviting WSC to regimental dinners (3); David Daniell on his regimental history of the 4th Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars and WSC's foreword to it (6); John Hare [later 1st Lord Blakenham], Secretary of State for War (3), on the...
Dates:
Jan 1954 - Dec 1958
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Queen's Royal Irish Hussars., Jan 1959 - Nov 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/586A-B
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Correspondents include: Brigadier John Scott Cockburn; David Daniell on his regimental history of the 4th Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (4); Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, Director of Personal Services; Lieutenant-Colonel W Butler reporting on the regiment (5); Air Marshal Sir John Baldwin (3); Lieutenant-Colonel George Kidston-Montgomerie reporting on the regiment (26); Lieutenant-Colonel A White inviting WSC to regimental dinners (4); General Sir John Steele of the Army Benevolent...
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Jan 1959 - Nov 1964
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Public and Political: General: Patronage Ra-Royal Academy., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/345
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File includes correspondence with: The Railway Benevolent Institution, on donation, 1953; The Reader's Digest on message to mark 35th anniversary, 1956; The British Red Cross Society on support for appeal 1952-54; Christabel, Lady Aberconway (2) on support for appeal to acquire Renoir's house and garden at Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1956; Eric Harrison, Australian High Commissioner, London, on membership of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmens' League of Australia, 1957-58; Sir Eugen...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political: General: Patronage Royal Air - Ry., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/346
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File includes correspondence with: Nigel Birch, Secretary of State for Air, on St Clement Danes Church Royal Air Force Appeal Fund, 1956; Marshal of the RAF Lord Tedder, invitation to world premiere of the film "The Dam Busters" in aid of the Royal Air Forces Association, 1955 The Royal Air Forces Association on support for Battle of Britain Appeal, with copy of souvenir brochure, 1958-59; The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, Lord Knollys, Chairman (5), on support for appeal, 1951-59...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - 1963
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Royal British - Royal Scots., 1941 - Apr 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/325
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File includes correspondence with: The Royal British Nurses Association, asking for permission to reproduce photograph of WSC, enclosing "Journal", 1948-49; The Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club, on invitation to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to race his Dragon Class Yacht, "Bluebottle" in annual regatta, with reply by John Colville, PS to Princess Elizabeth (2), with copy of the club's printed "Rules and Bye-Laws, 1949; The Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, on election as Honorary Life Member,...
Dates:
1941 - Apr 1952
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Royal Society - Royal Western., 1941 - Apr 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/326
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File includes correspondence with: The Royal Society, particularly Presidents, Sir Henry Dale, 1941-433 (6), Sir Robert Robinson, 1947-50 (3), on election as an Honorary Fellow, with invitations, ballot papers and Annual Report for 1940-41; John Copley (3) Hesketh Hubbard and Sir Oswald Birley on election as Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists, with requests for him to exhibit paintings, 1948-51; The Royal Society of St George, particularly Lord Queenborough, President,...
Dates:
1941 - Apr 1952
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Public and Political: General: Patronage S., 1940 - Apr 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/327
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File includes correspondence with St Charles' Hospital, London, on naming of new "Churchill Ward, 1951; Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod (2), and Air Vice Marshal the Earl of Brandon on dedication of St George's Chapel of Remembrance, RAF Biggin Hill, Kent, 1951; The Scottish Conservative Club on election as Honorary Member, 1951; Seaford College, Worthing, Sussex, on naming of new house "Churchill House", 1951; Sevenoaks Fencing Club, on election as Vice-President, 1951; The Sikorski...
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1940 - Apr 1952
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Public and Political: General: Patronage Sa-Son., Apr 1952 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/347
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File includes correspondence with: Lord Polwarth (2) on message for St Andrew's Society of New York, 1959; St Catherines Public Schools, Ontario, Canada, on Winston Churchill High School, 1956; Canon Charles Smyth, (3) on support for appeal for St Margaret's Church, Westminster, 1956; St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, on naming new wing after WSC, 1959; The Very Rev. Walter Matthews, Dean, (2) and Lt-General Sir Kenneth McLean, on support for St Paul's Cathedral Campaign, 1954; The...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - 1963
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