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Political patronage

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 512 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/106/84
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Letter from [WSC] to [Lady Pembroke] on Lord Pembroke's wish to be appointed Lord Steward and the unfairness of the political careers of some young peers being set back because they served in the war. Typescript copy.

Dates: 17 Sep 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 21 Sep 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/106/88
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Letter from "Sunny" [9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim Palace) to WSC noting that he approves Marlborough's nominations [? connected with the Lord Lieutenancy of Oxfordshire] and inviting WSC and CSC to stay.

Dates: 21 Sep 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 25 Sep 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/106/95
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Letter from WSC to "Sunny" [9th Duke of Marlborough] agreeing that he is right to hold back some nominations [? connected with the Lord Lieutenancy of Oxfordshire] and accepting his invitation to stay. Typescript copy.

Dates: 25 Sep 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 30 Jun 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/115/91
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Letter from Edward Marsh (Downing Street) to Thomas Flynn (131 Cambridge Street, Pimlico, [London]) reporting that WSC has asked the Admiralty to give favourable consideration to Flynn's claim. Typescript copy.

Dates: 30 Jun 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 30 Jun 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/115/92
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Letter from [Edward Marsh] (Downing Street) to Sidney Barnes reporting that WSC would be glad if something could be done for "his rescuer" [Thomas Flynn, a sailor who claimed to have rescued WSC from drowning when, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he was boarding a ship in rough weather]. Typescript copy.

Dates: 30 Jun 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 19 Jul 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/115/128
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Letter from [Edward Marsh] (Downing Street) to Captain Sir Acton Blake asking him to tell WSC how to answer a letter recommending Captain John Lewis to a Trinity House pension [see CHAR 2/115/129].

Dates: 19 Jul 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 17 Jul 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/115/129
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Letter from Josiah Towyn Jones (12 Downing Street) to WSC recommending Captain John Lewis of New Quay, Cardiganshire, Wales to a Trinity House pension.

Dates: 17 Jul 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 20 Jul 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/115/133
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Letter from Captain Sir Acton Blake, Deputy Master of Trinity House, to Edward Marsh enclosing a copy of his reply to Josiah Towyn Jones's recommendation of Captain John Lewis to a Trinity House pension [see CHAR 2/115/134].

Dates: 20 Jul 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 20 Jul 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/115/134
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Letter from Captain Sir Acton Blake, Deputy Master of Trinity House, to Josiah Towyn Jones replying to Jones's recommendation of Captain John Lewis to a Trinity House pension. Carbon copy sent with CHAR 2/115/133.

Dates: 20 Jul 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [Jul] [1921]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/115/135
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Note by Edward Marsh to [WSC] on the application for prize money of [Thomas] Flynn, a sailor who claims to have rescued WSC from drowning when, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he was boarding a ship on a rough day.

Dates: [Jul] [1921]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 26 Sep 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/116/63
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Letter in French from General Edmond Buat (Office of the Minister for War, Paris, [France]) to WSC asking him to use his influence to secure a permanent commission in the RAF for Leguen de Lacroix, a cousin of his currently serving in Egypt.

Dates: 26 Sep 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 29 Dec 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/111/125
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Letter from J S Barnes (Admiralty) to Edward Marsh reporting that Walter Long [later Lord Long], the First Lord of the Admiralty, believes that a baronetcy rather than a peerage is the appropriate honour to confer on Sir Philip Watts. Annotated by Marsh that he has informed Watts and expressed WSC's regret.

Dates: 29 Dec 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/114/84
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Note from a secretary to [WSC] mentioning that Major Gerald Geiger is getting "C's" job and referring to a draft letter for WSC's signature recommending Lieutenant F J Wild for employment on the Reparations Commission [see CHAR 2/114/85].

Dates: 01 Mar 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [01] [Mar] [1921]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/114/85
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Letter from [WSC] to [Sir John Bradbury] recommending Lieutenant F J Wild for employment on the Reparations Commission. Manuscript draft. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/114/86.

Dates: [01] [Mar] [1921]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 29 Apr 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/114/163
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Letter from Sir William Graham Greene to Edward Marsh arguing that WSC would be justified in pressing for Sir Albert Stern to be awarded a higher rank in the legion d'honneur than chevalier.

Dates: 29 Apr 1921
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), [Mar 1903]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/3/93-94
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Letter from C.R. Roberts to WSC on recommendation for the Victoria Cross, asking WSC to use his influence to secure award [Roberts had been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal].

Dates: [Mar 1903]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Apr 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/7/25
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Letter from E.A. Gormley to WSC, asking for post in the British Delegation to the 1904 St Louis Exhibition annotated by WSC that he would make enquiries.

Dates: 02 Apr 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 May 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/7/35-36
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Letter from Corporal J.B. Curran, formerly 4th Hussars, to WSC, asking for help in obtaining post as Customs Messenger, enclosing copy of reference from Major F. Lee.

Dates: 20 May 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jul 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/20
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Letter from John Beasley Thornhill to WSC, asking for help in obtaining post with the Colonial Service.

Dates: 15 Jul 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Aug 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/48
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Letter from C.J. Balaam to WSC, asking for help in obtaining post as Assistant Paymaster in the Royal Navy.

Dates: 06 Aug 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Aug 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/49
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Letter from Lord Hardwicke, War Office, to WSC, on award of South African Medal to one of WSC's constituents, E. Sherer, late Royal Army Medical Corps.

Dates: 08 Aug 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Nov 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/9/26
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Letter from E. Mayne to WSC, asking for help in obtaining Greenwich Pension for his father-in-law.

Dates: 18 Nov 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Nov 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/9/37
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Letter from E. Mayne to WSC, on attempt to obtain Greenwich Pension for his father-in-law.

Dates: 25 Nov 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/9/43
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Letter from E.Mayne to WSC, on attempt to obtain Greenwich Pension for his father-in-law.

Dates: 28 Nov 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Jun 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/123/100
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Letter from Robert Burns (Drum Rectory, Clones, County Monaghan, [Ireland]) to [? WSC] asking him to use his influence with 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] to secure for Burns the living of Alphamstone [Essex].

Dates: 26 Jun 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.