The Papers of Reginald McKenna

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.