GAMMANS, Sir David (1895-1957)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 F/GMS
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GAMMANS, Sir David (1895-1957)
Date(s)	: 1926-1956
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1.26 linear metres.
Name of creator(s)	: Gammans | Sir | Leonard David | 1895-1957 | Baronet | politician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir (Leonard) David Gammans (1895-1957) served with the RFA in France, 1914-1918. He was in the Colonial Service in Malaya, 1920-1934 and attached to the British Embassy in Tokyo, 1926-1928. In 1930 he toured in India, Europe and America and, on retiring from the Colonial Service, lectured in the U.S.A. and Canada; he was Director and Secretary of the Land Settlement Association, 1934-1939. He was the Unionist MP for Hornsey from 1941 to his death, being Assistant Postmaster-General from 1951-1955, and a member of Parliamentary Delegations to the West Indies, 1944, Serawak, 1946, and Ceylon, 1949. He was created a baronet in 1955.

Sir David Gammans's records were deposited by his widow, Lady (Ann Muriel) Gammans, whom he married in 1917; Lady Gammans was Conservative M.P. for Hornsey from 1957 until 1966.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Sir David Gammans, MP for Hornsey. The records consist of press cuttings stuck into four series of scrapbooks, with the occasional invitation card, menu or photograph included, and a small group of files containing election addresses, typescript articles, and correspondence.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged as follows:
F/GMS/I-(1935-1949) Press cuttings of "general" interest;
F/GMS/II-(1942-1956) Press cuttings of "personal" interest;
F/GMS/III-(1941-1956) Cuttings from Hansard;
F/GMS/IV-(1926-1949) Press cuttings by subject, etc;
F/GMS/V-(1945-1953) Articles, draft articles, and correspondence, etc.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records of Sir David Gammans deposited by his widow on the 26 November 1971.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Records prepared May to September 2011.