Scotland: Correspondence and papers concerning the Fairgrieve Committee and reorganisation of the Party in Scotland

Title

Scotland: Correspondence and papers concerning the Fairgrieve Committee and reorganisation of the Party in Scotland

Shelfmark

CCO 20/11/81

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Bell, Charles, Deputy Chairman and National Treasurer, Scottish Conservative Party

Fairgrieve, Russell, Chairman, Scottish Conservative Party

Findlay, Charles, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association Executive Committee

Garner, Anthony, Director of Organisation, Conservative Central Office

Harvie Anderson, Margaret Betty, MP for Renfrewshire East

Hooson, Tom, Conservative Central Office

Howarth, Alan, Personal Assistant to Party Chairman Lord Thorneycroft

Ryder, Richard, Private Office of Margaret Thatcher

Sproat, Iain, MP for Aberdeen South

Thorneycroft, Lord, Conservative Party Chairman

Turpie, Councillor Leonard, Leader of the Conservative Group, Strathclyde Regional Council

Webster, Sir Richard, Director of Organisation, Conservative Central Office

Includes:-

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Central Office press release concerning the setting up of the Fairgrieve Committee, 16/06/1976

Drafts of memorandum from Russell Fairgrieve to Margaret Thatcher, 'Organisation of the Party in Scotland', edited by Alan Howarth, ND [1976]

Memorandum from Russell Fairgrieve to Lord Thorneycroft, 'Memorandum on the Recommendations of the Fairgrieve Committee of Enquiry', 06/12/1976

Minutes [including separate, heavily annotated copy] of a meeting concerning the Party organisation in Scotland, chaired by Lord Thorneycroft, 16/12/1976

Cutting from The Guardian, 'Tories win new Scottish friends', 24/01/1977

Minutes of a meeting on Scotland between Lord Thorneycroft, William Clark, Tony Garner, and Alan Howarth, 24/01/1977

Minutes of a meeting to discuss the amalgamation of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Central Office with the English Central Office, chaired by Lord Thorneycroft, 25/01/1977

Minutes of meeting concerning Scotland, attended by Lord Thorneycroft, Robert McAlpine, Anthony Garner, Russell Fairgrieve, and Graham Macmillan, 02/03/1977

Circular letter from Russell Fairgrieve accompanying copies of the report sent to members of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association Executive Committee, 30/03/1977 [Photocopy only]

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Central Office press release announcing the release of the Fairgrieve Report, 04/04/1977

Memorandum of Dissent on the Fairgrieve Report, Charles Findlay, 17/04/1977

Copy correspondence between Iain Sproat MP and Margaret Thatcher concerning the organisation of the Party in Scotland, Mar 1978

Date

Jun 1976-Nov 1978

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file