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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), 27 Sep 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/77
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Letter from [2nd Lord] Selborne (Blackmoor, Wiss [Hampshire]) to Mrs Cornwallis-West [Lady Randolph Churchill] informing her that the medical staff on the hospital ship Maine were commanded by the War Office and advising her to write to [Sir John] Brodrick regarding medals for them.

Dates: 27 Sep 1902
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 Oct 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/131/44
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Letter from Harry Cranton (Chiddingfold, Surrey) to Lady Randolph Churchill enclosing details of his public and military work [see CHAR 28/131/45-50] and suggesting that these should be worthy of a peerage or some other recognition. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 29 Oct 1919
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/206
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Lord Cecil of Chelwood concerning Cecil's recommendation that Frank Raffety and Mr C Plaistowe should receive honours for "industrial co-partnership". Unsigned carbon.

Dates: 12 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/223
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Copy of a letter from WSC to [3rd] Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer] marked "personal and confidential" informing him that he intends to ask King [George VI] to appoint him as a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour and asking him to let him know whether "this would be agreeable". Unsigned carbon.

Dates: 19 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/224
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Copy of a letter from WSC to [1st] Lord Portal marked "personal and confidential" informing him that he intends to ask King [George VI] to award Portal a viscounty and asking him to let him know whether "this would be agreeable". Unsigned carbon.

Dates: 19 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/208
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Sir James Lithgow marked "personal and confidential" informing him that he intends to recommend to King [George VI] that Lithgow be made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours list and asking him to confirm that "this would be agreeable." Unsigned carbon.

Dates: 16 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/209
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Sir Arthur Hazlerigg marked "personal and confidential" informing him that he intends to recommend to King [George VI] that Hazlerigg should be given a Barony in the New Year's Honours list and asking him to confirm that "this would be agreeable." Unsigned carbon.

Dates: 16 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/214
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Copy of a letter from WSC to David Lloyd George marked "private" in which he asks whether Lloyd George would allow WSC to suggest that he be given an Earldom in order to "spare you the labours of a contested election at Criccieth [Carnarvonshire, Wales]", adding that it would give him great pleasure to do so. Unsigned carbon.

Dates: 17 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/216
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to WSC] informing him that he has recommended that Morton should be made a Knight Commander of the Bath and thanking him for his friendship and assistance. Carbon typescript.

Dates: 18 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/218-220
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Copy of a letter from WSC to King George VI in which he thanks the King for offering to give him the Order of the Garter but suggests that the honour might come to him on his retirement; suggests that [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Lord Cranborne [later 5th Lord Salisbury] might be awarded the Order of the Garter and that Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham might be awarded the Order of the Thistle; and thanks the King for awarding an Earldom to David Lloyd George. Carbon typescript.

Dates: 19 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Dec 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/138B/221
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Ellen Wilkinson marked "personal and confidential" informing her that he intends to ask King [George VI] to admit her to the Privy Council and asking her to let him know whether "this would be agreeable". Unsigned carbon.

Dates: 19 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jan 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/28/8
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Letter from WSC (Admiralty, Whitehall) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] concerning the influence of the Sea Lords over the promotion of Lieutenants with which he cannot interfere.

Dates: 15 Jan 1913
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.