The Papers of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen

Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen was born 26 March 1886, in 1912 he married Mary Gordon-Gilmour and they had two daughters. In 1908 he entered the Foreign Office and in 1919 was appointed First Secretary in HM Diplomatic Service. During his career he held the following positions: 1926-1930, Counsellor, HM Embassy, Brussels; 1930-1934, British Minister to the Baltic States; 1934-1936, British Minister in Teheran; 1936-1938, Ambassador in China; 1939-1944, Ambassador in Turkey; 1944-1947, Ambassador in Brussels and Minister to Luxembourg. He retired in 1947and died 21 March 1971.

The volumes of diaries ranging from 1915 to 1952 span his diplomatic career, and the correspondence is mainly of the years 1935-1937. Unfortunately, little exists from the World War II period when he was ambassador at Ankara and the events of Operation Cicero.

This small collection of diaries and correspondence of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen was given to the College in November 1976 by Lady Knatchbull-Hugessen.

The arrangement is as follows:

Section 1: diaries

Section 2: correspondence

This collection is owned by Churchill College.

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.

Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.

Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, KNAT

The collection has been catalogued and a copy of the printed catalogue is available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, at the National Register of Archives in London and this finding aid is available on the Janus website http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk.

This catalogue of the papers was produced by Louise King of Churchill Archives Centre in January 2005 using the information from the original 1976 catalogue.