Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1984 (Creation)
- 1968-1970 (Creation)
- 1955 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Items relating to the life and career of Sir George Clutton, including: photograph of Clutton being formally presented as new Ambassador to Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, 1955, with related press cuttings; correspondence, 1968-1969, between Clutton and various relatives concerning Clutton family history; press cuttings and correspondence relating to Clutton’s death and funeral, 1970; correspondence between journalist Barrie Penrose and Clutton’s cousin Florence Fowke, 1984, concerning allegations published in The Sunday Times that Clutton had been questioned by MI5 as a possible spy.
System of arrangement
The papers are in chronological order.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1909; educated Bedford School and Merton College, Oxford; Assistant Keeper, Prints and Drawings, British Museum, 1934-1939; served in the British Army, 1939-1940; seconded to Foreign Office, 1940; transferred to Stockholm, Sweden, 1944; First Secretary, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1946-1948; Head of African Department, Foreign Office, 1948-1950; Minister at the UK Liaison Mission, Japan, 1950-1952; Foreign Office liaison officer with MI6, 1952-1955; Ambassador to the Philippines, 1955-1959; Ambassador to Poland, 1960-1966; died, 1970.
Repository
Archival history
Placed in the Centre by the family, 2013
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, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
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Script of material
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Place access points
People and Organisations
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Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.