Conservative Party press-cuttings

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Reference number	CON
Date	1931-1970
Level	Collection
Description	Press-cuttings on public figures including Bessie Braddock, Walter Citrine, Walter Elliot, Will Lawther, Herbert Morrison, Peter Thorneycoft and Ellen Wilkinson.
Extent	34 boxes
Admin history	This collection was created by the Conservative Party Central Office.
Appraisal	No destruction has taken place.
Access status	Open

Ralph Assheton, later Baron Clitheroe of Downham, Conservative politician Arthur Blenkinsop, Labour politician Mrs E M (Bessie) Braddock, Labour politician Sir Leslie Cannon, electrical trade union leader Walter Citrine, later 1st Baron Citrine, Trades Union Congress general secretary, 1925-1946, chairman of the British Electricity Authority/Central Electricity Authority, 1947-1957 Cameron Cobbold, later Baron Cobbold of Knebworth, Governor of the Bank of England, later Lord Chamberlain Walter Elliot, Conservative politician (Leonard) David Gammans, Conservative politician Gwilym Lloyd George, later Viscount Tenby, Liberal/Conservative politician Sir Godfrey Huggins, later Viscount Malvern, prime minister of Southern Rhodesia and the Central African Federation of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland Harry Hylton-Foster, Conservative politician William Lawther, miners' trade union leader David Vivian Penrose Lewis, later 1st Baron Brecon, Conservative politician. Edward Martell, Liberal politician and publisher, founder of the People's League for the Defence of Freedom. Frank Medlicott, National Liberal/Conservative politician Percy Mills, later Viscount Mills, industrialist and Conservative politician Herbert Morrison, later Viscount Morrison of Lambeth, Labour politician Osbert Peake, later Viscount Ingleby of Snilesworth, Conservative politician Captain Athelstan Popkess, Chief Constable of Nottingham (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, later Baron Thorneycroft, Conservative politician Ellen Wilkinson, Labour politician