IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA C/PP2
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: RAMSBOTHAM, Herwald (1887-1971), 1st Viscount Soulbury
Date(s): 1932
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Ramsbotham | Herwald | 1887-1971 | 1st Viscount Soulbury
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1887; educated at Uppingham School and University College Oxford; called to the Bar in 1911; served in the World War One where he was awarded the Military Cross, 1914-1918; Conservative MP for Lancaster Division, 1929-1941; Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Education, 1931-1935; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1935-1936; Minister of Pensions, 1936-1939; First Commissioner of Works, 1939-1940; President of the Board of Education, 1940-1941; Chairman of the Assistance Board, 1941-1948; Chairman of the Burnham Committees, 1942-1949; Governor General of Ceylon, 1949-1954; created Viscount Soulbury, 1954; died, 1971.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The collection consists of two mounted pencil sketches of nesting birds and a moth presented to Herwald Ramsbotham, Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Education, by the Governors, Staff and Students of Chelsea Polytechnic at the opening of building extensions to the Modern Art and Biology classrooms at Chelsea Polytechnic, 4 November 1932.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form
Conditions governing reproduction:
The drawings are outsize and fragile and copies will not normally be supplied.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
The National Register of Archives records the existence of papers at an unknown location (see Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964 (London, 1996); London University: British Library of Political and Economic Science: correspondence with Violet Markham, 1942-1952 (Ref: MARKHAM).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002