Janus: The Papers of Reginald McKenna

Churchill/MCKN contains:
<-- See earlier
2	Public: Education Board
3	Public: Admiralty
4	Public: Home Office
5	Public: Exchequer
6	General: Fisher Correspondence
7	General: Later Career
8	Family correspondence
9	Personal and general correspondence
10	Elections
11	Photographs and cuttings
12	Diaries and journals of Pamela McKenna

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The Papers of Reginald McKenna

Title	Photographs and cuttings
Reference	MCKN 11
Covering Dates	1883–1943
Extent and Medium	4.5 archive boxes

Content and context

Includes: family photographs; some official photographs, mainly from McKenna's time at the Admiralty; political cartoons of McKenna; press cuttings; commemorative albums.

Churchill/MCKN 11 contains:

"Reggie caricatures". Includes: photograph of the rowing eight for Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 1883, including McKenna; originals and prints of political cartoons of McKenna by Francis Carruthers-Gould for the Westminster Gazette, 1907-1915; commemorative picture album from the launching of the battleship HMS Vanguard by Pamela McKenna, 1909; cartoon of "Midland Bank Sports".
1 file.

1883–1938

Photograph album. Photographs of family and friends, including: Pamela Jekyll [later Pamela McKenna] and Barbara Jekyll [later Barbara McLaren and Barbara, Lady Freyberg] as children in a group with H B Brabazon, Leonard Borwick and Dorothy Mackenzie; members of the Asquith family, including Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and Anthony Asquith and Elizabeth Asquith as children; Walter Runciman; Reginald McKenna; Winston Churchill; McKenna with Pamela McKenna; McKenna [?] speaking in an election campaign; Pamela McKenna playing golf; Barbara Jekyll skating; Ernest McKenna; [?] Edwin Montagu; Ralph Hodgson; copy of a sketch of Pamela McKenna by John Sargent; Michael McKenna and David McKenna as children; Sir Herbert Jekyll; school groups with Michael and David McKenna at Summer Fields, Oxford; [?] HMS Iron Duke; HMS Vanguard; building work on McKenna's house, Mells Park [Somerset] and its grounds; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Jellicoe; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher. Also includes: early letters from Michael and David McKenna; comic notes by McKenna on a tour of Scotland; Christmas cards from the officers of HMS Vanguard and HMS New Zealand and collected autographs from HMS New Zealand including Jellicoe [on a Naval Mission to Overseas Dominions], Bertram Ramsay, Oliver Leggett [Flag Captain to Jellicoe] and Hamnet Share [Secretary to Jellicoe]; sketches by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the reconstruction of Mells Park.
1 volume.

Aug 1899-Sep 1943

Photograph album. Family and official photographs, mainly from McKenna's time as First Lord of the Admiralty, with subjects including: various cruises aboard the Admiralty yacht Enchantress with Pamela McKenna, Ernest McKenna and [?] his wife Agatha McKenna; Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] with Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher; McKenna and Pamela McKenna on the beach; Michael McKenna and David McKenna as children; Harry Gosling. Also includes: press cuttings and cartoons relating to McKenna and the 1908 Education Bill; a cutting of submarines in the river Thames going past Parliament; cuttings on the launch of HMS Vanguard; print of a sketch of Pamela McKenna by John Sargent.
1 volume.

1908-c 1911

Photograph album. Family photographs, mainly of Michael McKenna and David McKenna as children and at school, in teams at Summer Fields preparatory school and playing the Eton Wall Game and acting, at Eton College.
1 volume; Some photographs have been cut from the pages..

c 1915-c 1930

Cartoon of McKenna. Original political cartoon of McKenna in a "Trick-Hat", by Edward Reed, Parliamentary Caricaturist to Punch.
1 item.

c 1907

Cartoon of McKenna. Original political cartoon of McKenna as a boxer, "graceful but effective", by Francis Carruthers-Gould for the Westminster Gazette.
1 item.

c Jan 1907

Cartoon of McKenna. Original political cartoon of "P C McKenna on Duty at the Home Office", by Francis Carruthers-Gould for the Westminster Gazette.
1 item.

Oct 1911

Press cutting album. Cuttings on subjects including: McKenna's engagement and marriage to Pamela Jekyll; the Education Bill, 1908; McKenna's appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty and replacement by Winston Churchill; the Welsh Disestablishment Bill; the wedding of Violet Asquith [later Violet Bonham Carter and Lady Asquith of Yarnbury] and Maurice Bonham Carter; the memorial to William Hudson; a meeting between McKenna and Raymond Poincare, French Minister of Finance, 1926; the war budget. Also includes copies of letters from David Lloyd George, Secretary of State for War, expressing his confidence in ministers' support for winning the war, and on forming his new Government.
1 volume; Fragile..

1905-Nov 1926

Budget cuttings. Press cuttings on one of McKenna's Budgets and also on Michael and David McKenna as children.
2 items.

c 1911-c 1915

Album of advertisements issued in connection with the Great War Loan.
1 volume.

1915

Constituency address to McKenna. Framed address to McKenna from the Liberals of North Monmouthshire and Pontypool parliamentary divisions [Wales] as recognition of McKenna's twenty three years representing North Monmouthshire. The frame is inscribed with the names of Prime Ministers and Chancellors of the Exchequer.
1 item.

06 Mar 1920

Robert Owen Memorial Museum. Album of photographs and press cuttings commemorating McKenna's opening of the memorial museum to Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Movement, in Newtown, Montgomeryshire [Wales].
1 volume.

09 May 1929