PRITT, Denis Nowell, 1887-1972, MP, lawyer and author

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 PRITT
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: PRITT, Denis Nowell, 1887-1972, MP, lawyer and author
Date(s)	: 1938-1972
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 14 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Pritt, Denis Nowell, 1887-1972, MP, lawyer and author

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Denis Noel Pritt, 1887-1972, was educated at Winchester, London University, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. He obtained an LLB from London University and was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1909, he retired from practice in 1960. He was a Labour MP for Hammersmith North from 1935-1950, despite being expelled from the Labour Party in 1940. He was also Professor of Law at the University of Ghana, 1965-1966, chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform and chairman of the Bentham Committee for Poor Litigants. In addition his interest in peace led him to become president of the British Peace Committee and a member of the World Peace Council. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1954.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Denis Nowell Pritt, comprising Political and Legal Papers, 1938-1971; Books, Addresses and Speeches, 1930s-1972; Photographs, 1960s; letter from Pritt and his wife to Rudolph M Lapp and his wife, 1946-1983, with three photographs, c1944-c1947.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

This collection is divided into six sections: Section 1. Political and Legal Papers, 1938-1961; Section 2. Political and Legal Papers, 1966-1971; Section 3. Books, Addresses and Speeches; Section 4. Photographs; Section 5. Letters from Pritt and his wife. There are some addenda.

Conditions governing access:

OPEN

Conditions governing reproduction:

COPYRIGHT IS HELD BY THE LIBRARY.

Finding aids:

Bound handlist available and also on database

Archival Information

Archival history:

Most of the early papers of this collection were destroyed in an air raid in 1941. The present collection covers only the later part of his political career.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Section 5 was donated on 27 Nov 2000 by Rudolph M Lapp.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 29, 2002

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
29 May 2002