Chairman's Office correspondence with Macmillan and his Private Office

Title

Chairman's Office correspondence with Macmillan and his Private Office

Shelfmark

CCO 20/8/4

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Barber, Anthony, MP for Doncaster (1951-1964)

Bidgood, John Claude, MP for Bury and Radcliffe (1955-1964)

Brook, Norman Craven, Cabinet Secretary (1947-1962)

Bishop, F. A

Brown, Sir William Robson, MP for Esher (1950-1970)

Buchan, R. Alexander, Secretary and Agent of the Bury and Radcliffe Conservative and Unionist Association

Butcher, Sir Herbert Walter, Liberal Unionist MP for Holland with Boston (1937-1966)

Butler, RA, Home Secretary (1957-1962)

Carson, Murray A., Chairman of the Surrey Young Conservatives

Cunningham, J. A., Cambridge University Conservative Association

Deane, Margaret, Secretary of the Surrey Young Conservatives

Duncan, Capt. Sir James, MP, Chairman of the Liberal Unionist Group

Hogg, Quintin, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, Party Chairman (1957-1959)

Hughes-Hallett, MP, Vice-Admiral John, British Representative at the Council of Europe (1958-1960)

King, Cecil Harmsworth, Owner of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial

Lloyd, Geoffrey, Minister of Education (1957-1959)

Macmillan, Harold, Prime Minister 1957-1963)

Poole, Oliver, Deputy Party Chairman (1957-1959)

Simms, R. E. , Chief Publicity Officer [?], Conservative Central Office

Urton, Sir William, General Director, Conservative Central Office (1957-1966)

Woolton, Frederick, 1st Earl of,

Subjects include:-

1959 General election congratulations

Cotton and the Conservatives' general election manifesto, 1959

Attacks on the Conservative Government's expenditure by Morgan Phillips, General Secretary of the Labour Party during the 1959 general election campaign

Invitation to Macmillan to dine with Cecil King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers, 1959

Labour Party Political Broadcasts, 1959

Invitation to Macmillan to speak to King's College, Newcastle Conservative Society, 1959

Possible meeting between Macmillan and Roy Thomson [newspaper proprietor and owner of the Kemsley group of newspapers including The Sunday Times], 1959

Request for financial assistance from the son of the Billy Ellis (deceased), formerly Conservative MP for Stockport, 1959

Cooperation with the Liberal Unionist Group, 1959

Visit by Macmillan to new towns in marginal constituencies, 1959

The Evening Standard's request for an article from Lord Hailsham on his views on the hydrogen bomb, 1959

Disruption by the League of Empire Loyalists at a mass meeting in Blackpool addressed by Macmillan in Oct 1958, 1959

Invitation for Macmillan to address a mass meeting of the Surrey Young Conservatives in Feb 1960, 1959

Impact of the 1958 Education White Paper concerning Church Schools on the general election, 1959

1959 local elections

Arrangements for the Prime Minister's tour of the North West Area, 1959

Possible assistance from Sir Anthony Eden's during the election campaign 1959

Lord Hailsham's visit to Lancashire and concerns about unemployment, the plight of the cotton industry, Liberal intervention, and West Bolton's refusal to renew its electoral pact with the Liberals, Mar 1959

Invitations to Macmillan to speak at both the Oxford University and Cambridge University Conservative Associations, 1959

Harrow East and South-West Norfolk by-elections, 1959

Arrangements for Macmillan to speak at the Home Counties North Area rally, Alexandra Palace, June 1959

Proposed television broadcast by Lord Woolton in response to one by Lord Attlee, 1959

Proposed visit of Macmillan to Bury, Lancashire, 1959

Macmillan's speech to the Conservative Trade Unionists' Annual Conference, 1959

Proposed Prime Ministerial engagements for 1959

Includes:-

Prime Minister's Personal Minute concerning 250,000 less men serving in HM Forces compared to 1955, for inclusion in the election manifesto, 1959

Programme for Macmillan's visit to Harlow, with map of the route of the tour, 06/08/1959

Prime Minister's Personal Minute detailing his personal contacts with newspaper proprietors and editors, 04/05/1959

Newspaper cuttings from The Bury Times reporting Bury & Radcliffe MP John C Bidgood's speech in support of Government policy towards the Lancashire textiles industry, 21/01/1959

Date

Nov 1958-Oct. 1959

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file