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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title Financial
Reference AMEL 9
Covering Dates 1880–1955
Extent and Medium 18 archive boxes
Content and context

This series includes LSA's personal financial papers, consisting of: accounts; household and tax records and receipts; business correspondence, including correspondence on LSA's property, trusts, investments and directorships.

Access and Use

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Churchill/AMEL 9 contains:
1 Business correspondence. Includes details of accounts, legacies, property and stock owned by LSA and his family, a patent on a game taken out by LSA and LSA's baptismal and examination certificates.
2 files.
May 1880-Jan 1914
2 Accounts.
4 files.
1892–1932
3 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Mar 1895-Dec 1898
4 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Dec 1898-Sep 1904
5 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Sep 1904-Jun 1908
6 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Jul 1908-Feb 1911
7 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Mar 1911-Jan 1913
8 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Feb 1913-Jul 1915
9 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Aug 1915-Apr 1918
10 Bank account book.
1 volume.
May 1918-Dec 1919
11 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Jan 1920-Aug 1921
12 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Aug 1921-Jan 1923
13 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Jan 1923-May 1924
14 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Jun 1924-Sep 1925
15 Bank account book.
1 volume.
May 1924
16 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Jul 1924-Dec 1924
17 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Sep 1925-Jan 1926
18 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Jul 1926-Apr 1929
19 Bank account book.
1 volume.
Apr 1929-Aug 1929
20 Account book.
1 volume.
1914–1918
21 Account book.
1 volume.
1918–1931
22 Passbook credits, fees and royalties. Includes details of LSA's director's fees, payments for articles, India Office salary and allowance statements and royalty statements.
1 file.
Apr 1937-Apr 1947
23 Financial correspondence. Chiefly correspondence with LSA's bank, also including hotel receipts.
1 file.
Jul 1942-Mar 1947
24 Subscription book. Lists of all LSA's subscriptions, with receipts and related correspondence.
1 volume.
Jan 1937-Sep 1947
25 Receipts.
3 files.
1940–1949
26 Income tax and surtax papers. Chiefly correspondence with LSA's bank.
1 file.
Apr 1947-Mar 1948
27 Income tax and surtax papers. Chiefly correspondence with LSA's bank, receipts etc.
1 file.
Jun 1947-Nov 1949
28 Receipts.
2 files.
1949–1950
29 Income tax and relevant receipts. Chiefly correspondence with LSA's bank.
1 file.
1949–1950
30 Income tax papers. Chiefly correspondence with LSA's bank, receipts etc.
1 file.
1950–1952
31 Household receipts A - K.
3 files.
1949–1952
32 Household receipts L - Z.
2 files.
1949–1952
33 Receipts A - Z. Includes correspondence with LSA's bank on income tax.
2 files.
Mar 1949-May 1953
34 Receipts A - Z. Includes correspondence with LSA's bank on income tax and subscriptions.
3 files.
1943–1954
35 Receipts A - Z and subscriptions.
3 files.
1953–1954
36 Financial and bank documents. Receipts, correspondence with LSA's bank etc.
1 file.
1953–1954
37 Banking and finance. Chiefly correspondence with LSA's bank, with receipts, subscriptions etc.
1 file.
1954–1955
38 Accounts A - Z.
2 files.
1954–1955
39 Charity and club subscriptions.
2 files.
1947–1955
40 Household insurance.
1 file.
May 1941-Nov 1948
41 Banking and finance. Chiefly accounts, bank statements and correspondence with LSA's bank.
1 file.
May 1955-Dec 1955
42 Receipts, subscriptions and accounts.
2 files.
1955
43 Executors. Correspondence on the winding up of LSA's estate and payment of outstanding debts.
1 file.
Jan 1955-Dec 1955
44 Financial correspondence. Includes: balance sheet and list of donors for the Sir Charles Davis Memorial Fund; letter from Henry Drummond-Wolff on a covenant set up by 'Bendor' [2nd Duke of Westminster]; correspondence with Thomas Davis on his loans to LSA.
1 file.
1931–1950
45 Usborne Trust. Correspondence with solicitors on a trust set up by Charles Usborne as part of his marriage settlement.
1 file.
Jan 1907-Oct 1908
46 Selby Lowndes Settlement. Correspondence on the [? marriage] settlement of the Selby Lowndes family, for which LSA was a trustee.
1 file.
Dec 1909-Feb 1913
47 Notes of income and expenditure.
1 file.
1904–1911
48 Southwark Estates. Accounts for and correspondence on property owned by LSA in Southwark, London.
1 file.
Feb 1912-Jul 1914
49 Southwark Estates. Accounts for and correspondence on property owned by LSA in Southwark, London.
2 files.
Aug 1917-Mar 1941
50 Southwark Estates. Accounts for and correspondence on property owned by LSA in Southwark, London.
1 file.
May 1941-Nov 1949
51 Mrs Amery's Trust: investment correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with solicitors and stockbrokers, on AFA's marriage settlement trust, including letters from AFA's trustees Sir Ralegh Phillpotts and 1st Lord Greenwood.
1 file.
Dec 1931-Jun 1952
52 Miss M H Greenwood: financial correspondence. Correspondence on the financial affairs of Mary Greenwood [AFA's sister].
1 file.
Oct 1948-Oct 1951
53 Canadian Land (Streamstown). Accounts and correspondence, mainly with H M E Evans and Company Limited, Financial Agents, on land owned by LSA in Canada. Also includes general financial papers.
2 files.
1909-Feb 1949
54 Correspondence with Trust and Loan Company of Canada. Business papers, including directors' reports, and correspondence with the company, of which LSA was president.
2 files.
Mar 1933-Sep 1951
55 Papers on the lease of 112 Eaton Square. Correspondence on LSA's house in London. Also includes some general correspondence on LSA's income.
1 file.
Apr 1937-Nov 1949
56 Inventory of 9 Embankment Gardens. Details of fixtures and fittings in LSA's house in London. Also includes lists of items supplied for LSA's use by the Admiralty.
1 file.
Dec 1922
57 Iraq Currency Board. Correspondence, memoranda and annual reports sent to LSA, chairman of the board, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young]; Edward Hogg, Adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance (2); Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton].
1 file.
Jan 1932-Nov 1939
58 Macleans Limited. Correspondence with representatives of the company, of which LSA was chairman, with correspondents including Edward Beddington-Behrens. Also includes correspondence on a retraction issued by Forward magazine, after it claimed that LSA had been a director of Beecham's Trust.
1 file.
Jul 1935-Sep 1943
59 Mount Magnet Gold Mines Limited. Correspondence with representatives of the company, of which LSA was a director.
1 file.
Jul 1935-Feb 1947
60 Youanmi Gold Mines Limited. Papers and correspondence on the company, in which LSA was a shareholder, with correspondents including 1st Lord Lee of Fareham, chairman.
1 file.
Jun 1938-May 1949
61 Miscellaneous companies. Correspondence with various companies in which LSA owned shares, particularly in gold mining and oil.
1 file.
Mar 1930-Apr 1952
62 Marks and Spencer. Reports, accounts and correspondence on the company, of which LSA was a director, with correspondents including Sir Simon Marks, Chairman, Sir Jameson Adams, Appeals Secretary of King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers and 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young].
1 file.
Jan 1936-Jun 1955
63 British Tabulating Machine Company. Papers and correspondence on the company, with correspondents including Sir Cecil Weir, Chairman, Sir Archibald Nye, British High Commissioner in India, Sir Gerald Chadwyck-Healey and Sir Ralegh Phillpotts, Chairman.
1 file.
Jun 1940-Jun 1955
64 The Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company Limited. Papers and correspondence on the company, of which LSA was a director, with correspondents including 1st Lord Trenchard, director (2), 3rd Lord Astor and Robert Birley, President of the Educational Interchange Council,.
1 file.
Oct 1945-Aug 1955
65 Renewing directorships. Correspondence on the renewal of LSA's directorships with various companies following his departure from the Government, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Catto [Governor of the Bank of England] (2); 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young] (2); Sir Patrick Hannon; Sir Simon Marks [Chairman of Marks and Spencer Limited]; 1st Lord Rankeillour [earlier James Hope] (3); Sir Robert Johnson, Chairman of Cammell Laird and Company Limited; 1st Lord Trenchard.
1 file.
Jul 1945-Oct 1945
66 Rhokana Corporation. Papers and correspondence on the company, of which LSA was a director.
1 file.
Dec 1946-Feb 1955
67 Woolworths. Bank statements and correspondence on LSA's shares in Woolworths Holdings Limited, South Africa.
1 file.
Nov 1947-Apr 1951
68 Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited. Papers and correspondence on the company, of which LSA was a director.
1 file.
Jul 1926-Aug 1944
69 Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited. Papers and correspondence on the company, of which LSA was a director, with correspondents including Sir [Harold] Leslie Boyce, Chairman.
1 file.
Jul 1945-Sep 1955
70 Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited. Minutes of board meetings.
1 file.
Jan 1954-Aug 1955
71 General correspondence on investments.
1 file.
Nov 1924-Jul 1939
72 Shalden Manor Estate and Childrey Manor. Auction brochures and maps for country houses that LSA thought of buying.
1 file.
Jul 1930-May 1935

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