Collection C/PP2 - RAMSBOTHAM, Herwald (1887-1971), 1st Viscount Soulbury

Key Information

Reference code

C/PP2

Title

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

Date(s)

  • 1932 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 folder

Scope and content

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.

General Information

Name of creator

(1887-1971)

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.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies will not normally be supplied due to the size and fragility of the originals.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Related materials

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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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

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