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The Papers of Enoch Powell

Title	Early political
Reference	POLL 3/1
Covering Dates	1939–1987 (The majority of these files date up to the 1960's.)
Extent and Medium	10.5 boxes

Content and context

Political papers and correspondence, including: JEP's early attempts to become a Member of Parliament and adoption as MP for Wolverhampton South-West; his time in the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat (particularly his papers on India); his work as a Conservative minister (particularly Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and Minister of Health) and member of the Shadow Cabinet; his bid for leadership of the Conservative Party; political issues of the time, including the Suez Crisis, the economy and the Profumo Affair.

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Churchill/POLL 3/1 contains:

Political and Normanton. Material on JEP's campaign in the Normanton by-election [South Yorkshire] (February 1947), including: correspondence with representatives of the Normanton and Castleford [South Yorkshire] Conservative and Unionist Association, and representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office (including Yorkshire Area); campaign posters; reports of JEP's pre-election speeches; lists of staff and expenses; post-election report by JEP; letters of good will and sympathy from individuals including 11th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lawrence Lumley] (3), R A Butler, Ted Curtis, Andrew Freeth, Kenneth Pickthorn. Also includes: posters for other by-elections from 1945-7; correspondence with various local Conservative Associations with vacancies for Parliamentary candidates (1947); military notes and papers by JEP, on subjects including the balance of power in Europe following the war, creating a military alliance between Britain and the Indian Ocean countries, results of increasing air-power, Intelligence Organisation in South East Asia Command and India, British war aims in the Far East, the implications of the Burma-Siam [later Thailand] Railway, the Burma Front (including enemy supply and reinforcements) and rail communications in the Indo-Malayan Peninsula (1943); notes and papers by JEP on Indian self-government, including the political problems of British withdrawal and population increase, notes on strategy and policy in the Far East and the text of a pamphlet and notes for the Reorganization Committee (India) on Armed Forces in India (1944-45); notes by JEP on post-war organisation of Intelligence in Asia (1943); notes on the Libyan situation, the course of the war in 1942 and observations on war training courses (1942); paper by JEP on the British North Russian Expedition of 1941 and notes and correspondence from JEP's war training course (1941); notes on Yugoslavia and papers by JEP on movement and operations in North Central Africa, the invasion situation, organisation of the 1st Armoured Division, mechanized movement and the chances of victory (1940).
4 files.

Jun 1940-Feb 1948

Normanton [South Yorkshire] by-election. Book of press cuttings on JEP's campaign, including general loose cuttings on the Normanton Division.
1 volume and 1file.

Jan 1947-Apr 1948

Miscellaneous material. Includes: Royal Warwickshire Regiment recruitment poster; aerial photographs of attacks on shipping; press cuttings; copies of Battle Dress cadet magazine.
1 file.

1939–1946

Political memoranda. Papers by JEP for the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat on subjects including: Indian policy (with letter from R A Butler); the future strategical importance of the Middle East in the light of present and probable political and scientific developments (written as an entry for the Bertrand Stewart Prize Essay); Town and Country Planning, including a proposed amendment to the Planning Act.
2 files.

May 1946-Apr 1950

Personal and confidential. Papers by or sent to JEP for the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat on subjects including: the Parliament and Steel Bills, 1949; the Financial Agreement between Britain and India, 1947; policy towards India; relations between the Indian States and the British Commonwealth and Empire; news from Pakistan; a proposed working committee on India; memoranda on air power and strategy by Air Vice-Marshal Edgar Kingston-McCloughry, Acting Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, India; note by Shri Jawaharlal Nehru [Vice-President, Interim Government of India, and Minister for External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations] for the Commander-in-Chief India's Committee on subjects for discussion by Cabinet on India. Also includes correspondence with individuals including: a letter from JEP to Henry Hopkinson [Head of Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat, later 1st Lord Colyton], asking to be relieved of the Secretaryship of the Parliamentary Committee on Indian Affairs; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], on meeting JEP and asking for information on building practices (2); Brigadier Gordon Thompson, Commander of Calcutta sub-area, on plans for Indian self-government (2); copy of letters between Winston Churchill [Leader of the Conservative Party] and Clement Attlee, Prime Minister on terms of a possible settlement with India; representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including John Biggs-Davison, Speakers Department, on putting JEP forward as a Parliamentary candidate and news from Pakistan (3); Richard Fort; Air Vice-Marshal Edgar Kingston-McCloughry on the situation in India (2).
1 file.

Aug 1946-Feb 1950

Seeking a seat. Correspondence with representatives of local Conservative Associations, including Sir Hugh Chance, Chairman of Bromsgrove Division Conservative and Unionist Association, and Conservative and Unionist Central Office on JEP's attempts to become adopted as a Parliamentary Candidate. Other correspondents include: [William] David Ormsby-Gore [later 5th Lord Harlech] on his own adoption as a candidate; Oliver Poole; Iain Macleod, Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat, with a suggested speech for JEP to use.
1 file.

Jan 1948-Nov 1950

Personal letters on India. Correspondents include: General Sir George Jeffreys, on retaining the Union Jack Club, Karachi [Pakistan]; Major-General Walter Cawthorn [Deputy Chief of Staff, Pakistan Army] asking JEP to have a Question put down in Parliament about the club; Frank Brayne on an 'iron curtain' between Lahore and Amritsar and the situation in the Punjab (8); Air Vice-Marshal Edgar Kingston-McCloughry [Senior Air Staff Officer, RAF, India Command] (2); Brigadier Gordon Thompson, Commander, Calcutta Sub-Area, on the situation in India (2); N R Ray (3); Sir George Morton, Liaison Committee on Indian Affairs (2). Also includes: printed Cabinet statements on India; paper on India in 1946 by Major M Short; reports on the Punjab, March 1946-July 1947, by the Chief Secretary to the Government, Punjab, sent by Frank Brayne.
2 files.

May 1946-Aug 1948

The Great Rebellion, Wolverhampton South West. Correspondence, mainly with representatives of Wolverhampton South West Conservative Association, particularly James Beattie, on JEP's dispute with his constituency over the conduct of the General Election in the Graisley ward of the division. Other correspondents include: representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, particularly R Ledingham, Central Office Area Agent; Sir Robert Bird [former MP for Wolverhampton West, Staffordshire] (4). Also includes: press cuttings; minutes of constituency meetings.
2 files.

Sep 1950-May 1951

Queen's Titles. Correspondence, mainly with the general public, on JEP's speech during the debate on the Royal Titles Bill (3 March 1953), with correspondents including: Peter Marriott (6); Muriel Burton-Watkins (4); Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir], Home Secretary; [John] Harley Williams, Secretary-General of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (2); Iain Macleod; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; John Connell [Leader-writer, The Evening News]; Sir Percy McElwaine. Also includes: first report by the Psephology Group on the value of opinion polls.
1 file.

Mar 1953-Oct 1961

Teachers' Superannuation. Notes and correspondence on the Teachers' Superannuation Bill. Correspondents include: R A Butler [Chancellor of the Exchequer], on the difficulty of a constructive alternative; Harry Crookshank, Lord Privy Seal (2); Florence Horsburgh, Minister of Education (3); Sir Gilbert Flemming [Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Education]; [Isaac] James Pitman.
1 file.

Feb 1954-May 1954

The Saga of Suez. Notes and correspondence on the Suez Crisis [Egypt] with correspondents including: Charles Waterhouse (3); Leo Amery, on setting up the Suez Canal Committee (3); Julian Amery, passing on letters from contacts in Egypt (9); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]. Also includes: copy of letter from the Suez Canal Committee to Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, on the importance of retaining British forces in the Canal Zone; draft press releases on the concerns of the committee; notes on the Commonwealth and Anglo-Canadian relations; press cuttings; speech by JEP to the Wolverhampton South-West Conservative Association on Suez (November 1953); text of talk by Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks on his tour of the Canal Zone (November 1953); draft letter from Jocelyn Simon to the Times; article by Julian Amery, Hold on to Suez.
1 file.

Mar 1953-Aug 1954

Suez. Correspondence, mainly from the general public, on JEP's speech in the House of Commons (November 1953) on the Suez Crisis [Egypt] and the anti-Empire policies of the United States. Correspondents include: Sir Herbert Williams; John Biggs-Davison; Norris Kenyon; Alfred Guillaume, Professor of Arabic, University of London; Admiral Sir Arthur Palliser; Geoffrey Finsberg; John Bruce Lockhart; Tufton Beamish [later Lord Chelwood]; Leo Amery. Also includes: copy of pamphlet Constructive Conservatism, by Henry Drummond-Wolff.
1 file.

Oct 1953-Nov 1953

Congratulations on appointment. Congratulations on JEP's appointment as Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government, from correspondents including: Richard Wood [later Lord Holderness]; John Hare [later 1st Lord Blakenham]; Alan Gomme-Duncan; Allan Noble; Henry Koeppler; Sir Alexander Cadogan [Chairman of the BBC]; Sir [Ernest] Guy Lloyd (2); Sir Eric Errington, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; 1st Lord Strathclyde [earlier Thomas Galbraith]; Sir Robert Bird; Olive Lloyd-Baker; George Christ; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Sir William Steward; Charles Hill; Robert Allan; [Gerard] Spencer Summers; Charles Doughty; John Tilney; [Rodney] Graham Page; Niall Macpherson; [John] Clement Jones, News Editor of the Wolverhampton Express and Star; Philip Mason; John Profumo; John Morrison [later 1st Lord Margadale]; Eric Johnson; Charles Orr-Ewing; George Nugent; John Maitland; James Duncan; Jack Nixon Browne [later Lord Craigton]; Geoffrey Hutchinson [later Lord Ilford]; 1st Lord Conesford [earlier Henry Strauss]; Toby Low [later 1st Lord Aldington]; Dennis Vosper, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education [later Lord Runcorn]; Sir John Smyth; Robert Jenkins; Sir [William] Patrick Spens; Cyril Black; [Charles] Frederick Gough; Harold Symon, former Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing and Local Government; John Hay, Chairman of the Conservative Party Housing and Local Government Committee (2); [George] Peter Thorneycroft; Harry Crookshank; [Edward] Percy Rugg, Chairman of the Junior Carlton Club Political Council; Eric Ashby; Geoffrey Finsberg; Douglas Glover; Sir John Howard; Charles Vignoles [Managing Director, Shell Mex and BP Limited]; 1st Lord Hudson; Sir Frank Medlicott; Humphry Berkeley, Conservative Political Centre; Sir Austin Hudson (2); Colin Hardie; [Aubrey] Geoffrey Rippon; Nigel Fisher; Sir Robert Cary; Gerald Nabarro; Graeme Finlay; Sir John Mellor; [Leonard] David Gammans; Reginald Maudling; John Rodgers; Frederick Erroll; [Rowland] Leonard Miall, Head of Talks, BBC Television; Sir Ian Horobin; John Biggs-Davison; George Nugent; 10th Lord Selkirk [earlier Lord George Douglas-Hamilton]; Elizabeth, Lady Pepler.
2 files.

Dec 1955-Jan 1956

Resignation: press cuttings. Cuttings on the resignation of [George] Peter Thorneycroft as Chancellor of the Exchequer, with JEP's resignation as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and [Evelyn] Nigel Birch [later Lord Rhyl]'s resignation as Economic Secretary to the Treasury, 6 January 1958, over the Government's policy on spending cuts. Also includes: letters from JEP to Thorneycroft and Birch on opinion in Parliament about their resignations, the Government's economic policy and whether to comment publicly on it.
2 files.

Jan 1958-Feb 1959

Treasury resignations. General correspondence on the resignation of [George] Peter Thorneycroft as Chancellor of the Exchequer, with JEP's resignation as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and [Evelyn] Nigel Birch [later Lord Rhyl]'s resignation as Economic Secretary to the Treasury, 6 January 1958, over the Government's policy on spending cuts. Correspondents include: Sir Dennis Robertson [Member of Council on Prices, Productivity and Incomes] on the Council's reports and the economic situation (8); Reginald Seconde; Lord Sandon [later 7th Lord Harrowby]; Baroness Elliot of Harwood; Hugh Gaitskell [Leader of the Labour Party]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later Lord Boyd]; Julian Ridsdale; Edmund Compton [Third Secretary, Treasury]; Michael Strachan; John Marshall [Principal, Treasury]; Thomas Iremonger; [Aubrey] Geoffrey Rippon; Toby Low [later 1st Lord Aldington]; Sir Henry Hancock [Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue]; Harold Prynne; Edgar Kingston-McCloughry; 1st Lord Mackintosh of Halifax, Chairman of the National Savings Committee; Kenneth Lewis; 2nd Lord Broughshane [earlier Patrick Davison]; Peter Tapsell; James Greenwood; [?] John Hughes-Hallett; Charlie Broad; Sir Frank Lee, Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade; Duncan Duncan-Sandys, Minister of Defence; [?] Iain Macleod; [Bruce] Bernard Weatherill; Sir James Crombie [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Jasper Rootham [Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England]; William Whitelaw [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton], acknowledging JEP's letter of resignation (2); [Alfred] John Winnifrith [Third Secretary, Treasury]. Also includes: note by Sir Dennis Robertson on controlling inflation and spending; notes by JEP on the reasons for the resignations and on Government spending estimates for 1958-9; notes for a speech by JEP to his constituency, 9 January 1958; draft letters from JEP to Birch on the Government's refusal to agree to cuts, February 1957, and to Thorneycroft on the pleasure of working with him; copies of Thorneycroft, Birch and JEP's letters of resignation.
1 file.

Feb 1957-Nov 1959

1958-59 Estimates. Memoranda on the Government's civil spending estimates, including: brief for ministers; text of speech by [George] Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the Mansion House, London; minutes and memoranda by Thorneycroft on the economic situation, the National Insurance Fund and civil defence spending and notes for a speech to Cabinet; minutes and draft paper by JEP on spending cuts; minute by Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] to ministers on the need for cuts; note by Sir Thomas Padmore [Second Secretary, Treasury] on a minute by JEP on the estimates.
1 file.

Oct 1957-Jan 1958

Letters and telegrams. Congratulations on JEP's appointment as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, with correspondents including: Jasper Rootham [Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England]; Douglas Glover; William Rees Davies; John Hall; Christopher Holland-Martin, Joint Honorary Treasurer, Conservative and Unionist Party; Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Attorney-General [later 1st Lord Dilhorne]; John Rodgers; John Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance; Frederick Burden; Malcolm Stoddart-Scott; Sir William Spens; Iain Macleod, Minister of Labour and National Service; David Eccles; Richard Thompson; Denzil Freeth; [Rodney] Graham Page; Evelyn Emmet; John Hay (2); Gerald Nabarro; Henry Brooke, Minister of Housing and Local Government; Julian Amery; Jocelyn Simon; [?] John Hughes-Hallett; William Abraham; Sir John Howard; 1st Lord Mackintosh of Halifax, Chairman of the National Savings Committee; Michael Strachan; Humphry Berkeley; Sir Stephen Pierssene; [?] Archibald Gordon [later 5th Lord Aberdeen and Temair]; Sir Norris Kenyon; Sir Geoffrey Hutchinson [later Lord Ilford]; Sir John Mellor; Michael Alison; Sir Frederic Osborn, Chairman, Town and Country Planning Association; 1st Lord Adrian, Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Edgar Kingston-McCloughry; 1st Lord Clitheroe [earlier Ralph Assheton]; Frederick Dean; [Edward] Percy Rugg; Diana Spearman; Percy Cohen [Joint Director, Conservative Research Department]; Sir Robert Bird; James Greenwood; Henry Koeppler; Harold Wallace-Copland; Peter Tapsell.
1 file.

Jan 1957

Hola Camp. Correspondence and papers on JEP's speech on the detention camp disaster in Kenya, with correspondents including: Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Boyd]; George Kitson Clark [Reader in Constitutional History, University of Cambridge]; Amie, Lady Noble; [John] Clement Jones, News Editor of the Wolverhampton Express and Star; [? John Astor]; Lord Hinchingbrooke [later 10th Lord Sandwich and (Alexander) Victor Montagu]; Alan Green; Barbara Castle; Edward Heath [Government Chief Whip]; Mark Bonham Carter. Also includes: texts of broadcasts by Henry Price, and Lord Hinchingbrooke; extracts from Hansard, featuring JEP's speech; press cuttings; reprinted paper by George Kitson Clark on the history of the neutrality of the Civil Service; rough speech notes for JEP's speech.
1 file.

Jun 1959-Oct 1959

July, Resignations before 28.7.60. Correspondence on JEP's resignations from various honorary posts on joining the Cabinet as Minister of Health, and congratulations on joining the Cabinet. Correspondents include: Archibald Gordon, BBC Current Affairs (Sound) [later 5th Lord Aberdeen and Temair] on subjects including JEP's commentary on the Labour Party Conference (2); [John] Harley Williams, Secretary-General of the Chest and Heart Association (2); Ivy, Duchess of Portland, Chairman of the Chest and Heart Association (2); Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, asking JEP to sit on the Legislative Commission on the revision of canon law (2); Robert Beloe, Secretary to the Archbishop (2). Also includes: papers from the Legislative Commission on the revision of canon law.
1 file.

Mar 1960-Sep 1960

Health Economy Measures. Congratulations on a speech by JEP as Minister of Health on [raised charges for health care], with correspondents including: John Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance; Philip Holland [Parliamentary Private Secretary to Boyd-Carpenter]; Norman St John-Stevas [political correspondent of the Economist] (2); Iain Macleod.
1 file.

Feb 1961

Congratulations on Ministry of Health. Correspondents congratulating JEP on his appointment as Minister of Health include: Sir Roy Harrod; Ivy, Duchess of Portland, Chairman of the Chest and Heart Association (2); [John] Harley Williams, Secretary-General of the Chest and Heart Association; John Leavey; Donald Johnson; 1st Lord Adrian, President of the Royal Society of Medicine; David Hopkinson; Tony Benn [2nd Lord Stansgate, earlier Anthony Wedgwood Benn]; Reginald Seconde; Dennis Vosper [former Minister of Health, later Lord Runcorn] (2); Lord Sandon [later 7th Lord Harrowby]; [Richard] Michael Fraser, Director of the Conservative Research Department; Duncan Duncan-Sandys; Julian Amery; William Anstruther-Gray [later Lord Kilmany]; Eric Ashby; Sir Peter Agnew; John Arbuthnot [former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Health and member of the Public Accounts Committee] on health spending and the advantages of a combined Ministry of Social Services; [William] John Biffen; Clive Bossom; Edith, Lady Bird; 1st Lord Bossom; Sir Herbert Butcher; Sir Cyril Black; [David] Vivian Brecon; Michael Hutchison; Albert Costain; Robert Beloe, Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury; Sir [George] Beresford Craddock; Edmund Compton; Peter Cropper; Sir [Geoffrey] Miles Clifford; 1st Lord Clitheroe [earlier Ralph Assheton]; John Cordle (2); Charles Curran; Lord Craigton, Secretary of State for Scotland [earlier Jack Browne]; Sir Charles Dunphie; Baroness Elliot of Harwood; Neil Elles; John Finlay; Denzil Freeth; [?] Nigel Fisher; Andrew Freeth; Lord Fraser of Lonsdale; Geoffrey Finsberg; Sir Richard Glyn; Sir Clifford Gothard; Oswin Gibbs-Smith, Archdeacon of London; Charles Gough; James Greenwood; Eveline Hill; [Arthur] Vere Harvey; [?] John Hughes-Hallett; [Margaret] Patricia Hornsby-Smith [Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance]; Reverend Oscar Hardman; Henry Hollond; Antony Head; Colin Hardie; Lady Anne Holland-Martin; [John] Clement Jones [Editor of the Wolverhampton Express and Star]; Edgar Kingston-McCloughry; George Kitson Clark; Godfrey Lagden; Kenneth Lewis; [Arthur] Stretton Reeve, Bishop of Lichfield; Sir Frank Lee, Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury; Olive Lloyd-Baker; [? William] Fergus Montgomery; Bridget, Lady Monckton [11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland]; Martin Maddan; [Arthur] Hugh Molson; Derek Mitchell; Sir Geoffrey Mander; Ibrahim Nathoo, Minister for Works, Kenya; Sir [George] Richard Nugent; John Profumo; Elizabeth, Lady Pepler; Sir Charles Petrie; [?] Julian Ridsdale; Sir John Russell; John Richardson [Honorary Consulting Physician, St Thomas' Hospital]; Peter Remnant; Edmund de Rothschild; John Rodgers; Sir Halford Reddish; Sir [Thomas] Leslie Rowan; William Rees-Davies; Jasper Rootham; Dr [Norman] Lloyd Rusby, Chest and Heart Association; Michael Strachan; Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott; Derek Schreiber; Arthur Seldon [Editorial Director, Institute of Economic Affairs]; Sir [Gerard] Spencer Summers; Sir John Smyth; Sir George Schuster; John Temple; Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley; John Talbot; Robert Turton [later Lord Tranmire]; Sir Gordon Touche; Sir William Urton, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Joan Vickers; Jean-Pierre Warner; [John] Harley Williams [Secretary-General of the Chest and Heart Association]; Charles Waterhouse; William Whitelaw.
2 files.

Jul 1960-Oct 1960

Press cuttings. Cuttings on the Profumo Affair and JEP's possible resignation, with note of JEP's engagements and meetings with other ministers during the crisis.
1 file.

Jun 1963

Entry into Cabinet. File of congratulations on JEP's promotion into the Cabinet, from correspondents including: Edith Pitt [Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health]; Edward Heath; Tony Benn [2nd Lord Stansgate, earlier Anthony Wedgwood Benn]; Sir Bruce Fraser [Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health] (2); Michael Strachan; [John] Selwyn-Lloyd; [Arthur] Christopher Soames; Sir Edward Collingwood; Sir Alexander Maxwell, Chairman of University College Hospital; Catherine Hall, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing; 1st Lord Aldington [Deputy Chairman, Conservative Party Organisation, earlier Toby Low]; Piers Dixon; Hervey Rhodes; Sir [Edward] Percy Rugg; 1st Lord Clitheroe [earlier Ralph Assheton]; John Hope; Sir John Senter; Dennis Vosper [later Lord Runcorn]; Sir James Greenwood; John Rodgers; John Arbuthnot; William Anstruther-Gray [later Lord Kilmany]; Frederick Corfield; [?] Gilbert Longden; [Arthur] Stretton Reeve, Bishop of Lichfield; Ralph Harris, General Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs; Arthur Seldon, Editorial Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs; Jasper Rootham; Lord Sandon [later 7th Lord Harrowby]; Andrew Freeth; 1st Lord Inman, Chairman, Charing Cross Hospital; Denzil Freeth; Edmund de Rothschild; Sir George Schuster, Chairman of the Oxford Regional Hospital Board (2); Sir John Russell; Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid; Lawrence Brandes [Principal Private Secretary to JEP]; Philip Holland; Francisco Duque, Secretary of Health, Philippines; Sir [Kenneth] Ivor Julian, Chairman of the South-East Metropolitan Regional Health Board; Joseph Hunter, Chairman of the Leeds Regional Hospital Board; Leslie Farrer-Brown, Director of the Nuffield Foundation; Dr Richard Trail; 1st Lord Nathan; Sir Albert Robinson; Dr Derek Stevenson [Secretary, British Medical Association]; Sir Thomas Harley [Chairman, Liverpool Regional Hospital Board]; Sir [Robert] Godfrey Llewellyn, Chairman of the Welsh Hospital Board]; Claude Lucas, Chairman of the Board of Governors, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.
1 file.

Jul 1962-Aug 1962

1963 Profumo Affair: letters dealt with. Correspondents on the crisis, particularly JEP's possible resignation and in support of his position, include: Evelyn Emmet; Donald McLachlan [Editor of the Sunday Telegraph] (2); Martin Maddan; Sir George Schuster (2); Sir Henry Willink; Jasper Rootham; [Arthur] Stretton Reeve, Bishop of Lichfield; Ronald Lunt, Chief Master, King Edward's School, Birmingham; Gilbert Longden; John Cordle; Julian Ridsdale on his view that the Prime Minister [Harold Macmillan, later 1st Lord Stockton] should bear full responsibility; Derek Schreiber; Henry Langton [later Henry Calley]; Charles Beattie; Colin Baillieu; James Higgs-Walker; Nelson Mustoe; Kenneth de Courcy.
2 files.

Jun 1963-Aug 1963

Leadership 1965 (Shadow Defence). Correspondence, mainly good wishes and commiserations on JEP's bid for leadership of the Conservative Party, and congratulations on his subsequent appointment as Shadow Defence Secretary and previous position as Transport Spokesman, with correspondents including: Jasper Rootham; 4th Lord St Oswald [earlier Rowland Winn] (2); Sir Nigel Ronald; Sir Clive Bossom; Derek Schreiber; Anthony Royle [later Lord Fanshawe of Richmond]; Alexander Durie, Director-General of the Automobile Association; Carel de Wet, South African Ambassador to Britain; Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale]; Sir James Greenwood; Sir [Kenneth] Ivor Julian; Sir Richard Glyn [Chairman, Conservative Army Committee]; [John] Harley Williams, Director-General of the Chest and Heart Association; 1st Lord Dilhorne [earlier Reginald Manningham-Buller] (2); Iain Macleod; [William] John Biffen; [John] Clement Jones, Editor and Director of the Wolverhampton Express and Star; Charles Beattie.
1 file.

Jul 1965-Sep 1965

1964 Election. Correspondence, mainly letters of congratulation to JEP for retaining his seat and on his appointment as Transport Spokesman, with correspondents including: Lord Sandon [President, Wolverhampton South West Conservative Association, later 7th Lord Harrowby] (3); Edgar Kingston-McCloughry; Gilbert Longden; Bernard Braine; David Butler [Co-Editor of Electoral Studies]; William Rees-Davies; Paul Hawkins; Sir John Russell; Roland Wilson; Robert Jenkins; Anthony Bourne-Arton (2); Sir Reginald Northam, Principal of Swinton Conservative College; Harold Gurden; John Cashman [Private Secretary to JEP as Minister of Health]; Olive Lloyd-Baker; [?] Ted Curtis; Andrew Freeth; Reverend Canon [Thomas] Jenkin Pugh; Richard Hayward, Secretary General, Civil Service National Whitley Council (Staff Side). Also includes: letters from JEP's constituents on electoral issues, particularly education; campaign notes.
1 file.

May 1964-Nov 1964

Letters on refusal to enter Lord Home's Administration. Correspondence, mainly commiserations, regrets and letters of thanks, on JEP's resignation as Minister of Health on Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [earlier 14th Lord Home] becoming Prime Minister. Correspondents include: Sir [Kenneth] Ivor Julian [Chairman, South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board] (2); Edgar Kingston-McCloughry; Roger Peers, Secretary, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London; John Wolfenden [Chairman, Family Service Units]; Gordon McLachlan, Secretary, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust (2); Sir Thomas Williams, Chairman, United Cardiff Hospitals; Sir Robert Platt, Professor of Medicine, Manchester University; Dr Derek Stevenson, Secretary of the British Medical Association; Richard Ingrams, Editor of Private Eye, offering JEP a job; Esme Birch [later Esme, Lady Rhyl]; Sir James Greenwood; Sir Cyril Osborne (2); Dr Denis Wheeler, President, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry; Martin Maddan [Parliamentary Private Secretary to JEP]; Philip Templeman, Chairman of the Wessex Regional Hospital Board; Baroness Northchurch [Frances, Lady Davidson]; Colin Dollery [Consultant Physician, Hammersmith Hospital]; Sir Thomas Harley; Martin Redmayne; Julian Ridsdale; 1st Lord Cohen of Birkenhead [Professor of Medicine, University of Liverpool]; Sir John Richardson [Honorary Consulting Physician, St Thomas' Hospital]; Sir Edward Collingwood [Chairman, Newcastle Regional Hospital Board]; [Arthur] Stretton Reeve, Bishop of Lichfield; Catherine Hall, General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing; Geoffrey Johnson Smith; John Moss, Chairman of the National Old People's Welfare Council; [?] Bernard Braine [Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health]; John Cashman [Private Secretary to JEP as Minister of Health]; Albert Martin, Chairman, Sheffield Regional Hospital Board; Sydney Ripley, Chairman, South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board; [William] John Biffen; Ralph Harris, General Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs (2); 2nd Lord Moynihan, Chairman of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board; Sir Douglas Logan, Principal of the University of London; Sir John Russell; [?] Michael Alison; Hugh Clegg [Editor], British Medical Journal; Sir [Robert] Godfrey Llewellyn; Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd; Kenneth Lewis; John Bedford; Sir George Godber, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health; Hector MacLennan, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; [John] Clement Jones [Editor and Director of the Wolverhampton Express and Star]; Dame Enid Russell-Smith [Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Health]; 3rd Lord Astor; Sir [Stanley] Graham Rowlandson, Chairman, North-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board; Geoffrey Finsberg; Lord Alport; Julian Amery; [Henry] Paul Channon; Charles Fletcher-Cooke; Timothy Raison, Editor of New Society; Hugh [Geoffrey] Wilson; Penelope, Lady Aitken; Andrew Freeth; [John] Peter Macnair; Sir James Lythgoe; Arthur Tiley; Sir John Mellor; Kenneth Robinson; Claude Lucas, Chairman of the Board of Governors, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children; Anthony Sumption; Hester, Lady Adrian; Jasper Rootham (2); Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton], giving notice of his resignation.
2 files.

Oct 1963-Nov 1963

General political correspondence. Correspondents include: Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd; J P G Lawrence, Chairman, Political Activities Committee, Bromsgrove Division [Warwickshire] (4); Gilbert Edgar, on JEP's help in setting up new forms of patient treatment (2); Edmund Dockerill, Secretary and Agent, Wrekin Division of Shropshire Conservative and Unionist Association (3); S B H Oliver, Conservative and Unionist Central Office Speakers' Department (7); Edward Martell, Chairman of The Freedom Group, on a claim by Private Eye that JEP was a member of the editorial board (2); Stuart Newman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office agent, East Midlands Area (4). Subjects include: JEP's work as Minister of Health; invitations for JEP to deliver speeches; the Conservative Party leadership campaign and JEP's resignation as Minister of Health. Also includes: papers on an enquiry into the management of No. 6 Hospital Group, Birmingham.
1 file.

Apr 1963-Oct 1964

Political comment. Correspondents include: William Tatton Brown [Chief Architect, Ministry of Health] on carrying out JEP's previous suggestions in hospital design; Jasper More [Assistant Opposition Whip] on concerns about Shadow Cabinet policy, particularly setting up a Conservative Long Term Policy Group; Antony Peck; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Prime Minister, earlier 14th Lord Home] on subjects including the General Election; Nathaniel Micklem, President of Liberal International, in support of JEP's economic views; [Leonard] Robert Carr on the fallacies of overseas aid; Auberon Waugh on his support for JEP's views on overseas aid and social security; Thomas Neil [former Director, Kenya Famine Relief] on the futility of capital aid grants to under-developed countries; Ralph Harris [General Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs] on subjects including JEP's attacks on Labour Party economic policy (4); E Grattan (4); David Butler [Co-editor, Electoral Studies] on the swing to the Conservatives in the Black Country, particularly Wolverhampton [Staffordshire]; Sir John Vaughan-Morgan [later Lord Reigate], supporting JEP's view on the need for Trade Union reform; R R A Bratt (3); William Lewis Clarke on Trade Union reform and price restrictions (8); Edward Martell, Chairman of The Freedom Group; Arnold Wesker; Sir Michael Fraser, Director of the Conservative Research Department; [Arthur] John Page; Reginald Maudling, Chancellor of the Exchequer, thanking JEP for sending him the text of a speech; 1st Lord Conesford; 1st Lord Coleraine [earlier Richard Law]; [George] Wilfred Proudfoot; Peter Runge, President of the Federation of British Industries. Other subjects include: Conservative Party organization; economic policy, particularly incomes policy and price regulation by the National Economic Development Council (NEDC); JEP's speeches; JEP's appointment as Shadow Transport Spokesman; immigration; teacher shortages; pension reform. Also includes: report into the funding of Gravesend Conservative Association; press cuttings.
3 files.

Jan 1962-Sep 1965

Political comment: Glasgow [Scotland] speech. Correspondence following JEP's speech, 3 April 1964, and subsequent BBC interview, on economic policy, particularly free enterprise as opposed to regional development planning. Correspondents include: R C B Stillman (3); Lord Alport (2); [Francis] Julian Williams; Sir William Urton, General Director of Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Ian McIntyre, Press, Radio and Television Officer, Scottish Unionist Party. Also includes: text of speech by Quintin Hogg, Secretary of State for Education and Science [earlier 2nd Lord Hailsham, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone] on the Budget and the Conservative view of free enterprise.
1 file.

Nov 1963-Apr 1964

India Paper. Incomplete copy of JEP's paper for the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat on the situation in India, 1946. Includes correspondence with a researcher and representatives of the British Library on supplying JEP with a copy of the paper, 1986-7.
1 file.

Dec 1946-Feb 1987

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