Goulding, Edward Alfred (1st Baron Wargrave): letter ([1935])

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 AL428
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Goulding, Edward Alfred (1st Baron Wargrave): letter ([1935])
Date(s)	: [1935]
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 2 leaves
Name of creator(s)	: Goulding | Edward Alfred | 1862-1936 | 1st Baron Wargrave | politician and financier

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Edward Alfred Goulding was born in Cork, Ireland, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He trained as a lawyer, but preferred politics, serving on London County Council (1895-1901) and as Conservative MP for Devizes (1895-1906) and Worcester (1908-1922). He was made a baronet in 1915, a privy counsellor in 1918, and Baron Wargrave in 1922. Lord Wargrave was also a successful financier and a close associate of Lord Beaverbrook.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Edward Alfred Goulding (1st Baron Wargrave) of Shiplake Court, Henley-on-Thames, [Oxfordshire] to Bernard Osborne, 23 Apr [1935]. 'In reply to your query - yes frequently Austen Chamberlain and Leo Maxse ...'. Also giving some information about his brother 'Sir William J Goulding Bart. chairman ... Great Southern and Western Ry. Ireland died ... ten years ago [1925] ...'. Autograph, with signature.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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Finding aids:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from E Hall (1966).

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

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:
July 2008