GB 0100 KCLCA C/PP2 - RAMSBOTHAM, Herwald (1887-1971), 1st Viscount Soulbury

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GB 0100 KCLCA C/PP2 1932 Collection (fonds) 1 folder Ramsbotham , Herwald , 1887-1971 , 1st Viscount Soulbury
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.

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.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form

The drawings are outsize and fragile and copies will not normally be supplied.
English

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).

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell. 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. February 2002 Animals Biology Birds Chelsea Polytechnic Drawings Insects Ramsbotham , Herwald , 1887-1971 , 1st Viscount Soulbury x Soulbury , 1st Viscount Visual materials Zoology Illustrations Arthropods Organisms Vertebrates

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.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form

The drawings are outsize and fragile and copies will not normally be supplied.

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English

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).

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.

• English