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Personal Political Papers at the • The Bonar Law Papers (BL) - Papers of The Parliamentary Archives has custody of a range of Law (1858-1923), politician. Bonar Law became leader significant deposited collections of personal political papers. of the Unionist Party in 1911, and subsequently served All the catalogues are searchable on the Parliamentary as Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1915, Chancellor Archives online catalogue, Portcullis. This Guide outlines of the Exchequer 1916-1918, Leader of the House some of the most significant collections. of Commons 1916-1921, and Prime Minister in 1922. The Bonar Law papers are particularly significant for • The Beaverbrook Papers (BBK) - Papers of William studying the Unionist Party and Unionist opinion between Maxwell Aitken (1879-1964), 1st Baron Beaverbrook. 1911 and 1923. Major topics covered include party Lord Beaverbrook was a businessman, politician and organisation, reform, the Irish Question, the conduct newspaper proprietor. This substantial collection contains of the First World War, relations with the Coalition correspondence, papers, photographs, maps and a few Liberals and post-war home and foreign policy. artefacts, covering every aspect of his life and work.

Lord Beaverbrook Andrew Bonar Law • The Davidson Papers (DAV) - Political and personal papers of John Colin Campbell Davidson (1889-1970), 1st Viscount Davidson, politician. The Davidson Papers are of particular interest, not only because of Davidson’s work as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party, but also on account of his close association successively with Lewis Harcourt, Andrew Bonar Law and , which led to the preservation of some of their office papers amongst Davidson’s papers. • The Lloyd George Papers (LG) - Political and personal papers of (1863-1945), Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, politician. The papers are arranged in 9 sub-fonds: LG/A contains papers up to 1905; LG/B are papers created when Lloyd George was President of the Board of Trade, 1905-1908; LG/C when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1908-1915; LG/D when he was , 1915-1916; LG/E when he was Secretary of State for War, June-Dec 1916; LG/F when he was Prime Minister, 1916-1922; LG/G consists of papers from 1922- 1945; LG/H are press cuttings; and, LG/I contains personal David Lloyd George correspondence and papers, including notes for speeches. • The Blumenfeld Papers (BLU) - The Papers of Ralph • The Samuel Papers (SAM) - Political, personal and literary David Blumenfeld (1864-1948), Journalist. Blumenfield papers of Herbert Louis Samuel (1870-1963), 1st Viscount worked on the Evening Telegraph in New York, the Daily Samuel, politician. The papers cover his life and career from Herald in London, was editor of the , and editor his childhood to the year of his death. The principal gaps in and editor-in-chief of the Daily Express. The collection the collection at the Parliamentary Archives are departmental consists of personal and political correspondence, 1899- papers (few of which Lord Samuel retained) and Cabinet 1948, mainly deriving from Ralph Blumenfeld’s activities Papers which, with a few exceptions, he returned to the as editor of the Daily Express from 1904 to 1932. Cabinet Office. • The Strachey Papers (STR) - The Papers of John St Loe Strachey (1860-1927), Journalist. The collection contains political and literary correspondence of Strachey, who was both editor and proprietor of The Spectator from 1898 until 1925. • The Stansgate Papers (ST) - Political and personal papers Other collections of personal political papers at the Parliamentary of William Wedgwood Benn (1877-1960), 1st Viscount Archives include those of: Stansgate, politician. William Wedgwood Benn was MP • Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave (1927-1979), Politician (Liberal) for St George’s Division of Tower Hamlets, (AN) 1906-1918, and for Leith, 1918-1927. He was MP (Labour) for North Aberdeen, 1928-1931, and for the Gorton • Harold Harrington Balfour (1897-1988), 1st Baron Division of Manchester, 1937-1942. He held the posts Balfour of Inchrye, Politician (BAL) of Junior Lord of the Treasury, Chairman of Sir John Biggs-Davison (1918-1988), Politician (BD) Relief Fund, Privy Councillor, Secretary of State for , • Vice-President of the Allied Control Commission for Italy • George Henry Cadogan (1840-1915), fifth Earl Cadogan and Secretary of State for Air. This collection includes (CAD) political papers, personal papers, printed material and Sir Robert Donald (1860-1933), Journalist (DON) photographs. • • Frances Stevenson (1888-1972), Countess Lloyd George, Personal Secretary to David Lloyd George (FLS) • Timothy Michael Healy (1855-1931), Politician (HEA) • Sir Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon (1874-1963), Politician (HNN) • Sir Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell (1871-1956), Politician (MOR) • Frank Owen (1905-1979), Journalist (OWE) • Arthur Edward Alexander Shackleton (1911-1994), Baron Shackleton, Politician (S) • Reginald William Sorensen (1891-1971), Baron Sorensen, Politician (SOR) • Edward Alfred Goulding (1862-1936), 1st Baron Wargrave (WAR)

Letter from to Lloyd George, 1913