RAMSBOTHAM, Herwald (1887-1971), 1st Viscount Soulbury

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA C/PP2
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full 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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

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

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

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:
February 2002