Janus: Commonwealth miscellanea

RCS/RCMS 22 contains:
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3	Correspondence of the Imperial Federation League
4	Letters from Ramsay Macdonald to Sir Drummond Shiels
5	Monetary and colonial development
6	Memories of the Royal Commonwealth Society
7	The cultivation and manufacture of the olive
8	Letters from Sir Cosmo Parkinson to Sir William Clark
9	Letter from Sidney Webb to Sir Drummond Shiels
10	Notes on natural history
11	A gold standard for the Empire
12	R.C.S. Biography catalogue acknowledgements
13	Letter from the 4th Marquess of Salisbury to Sir Drummond Shiels
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Commonwealth miscellanea

Title	Letters from Sir Cosmo Parkinson to Sir William Clark
Reference	RCMS 22/8 (former reference: MSS 11)
Creator	Parkinson, Sir, Arthur Charles Cosmo, 1884-1967, Knight, politician
Covering Dates	1941
Extent and Medium	2 pages; paper; Typewritten

Content and context

Sir Arthur Charles Cosmo Parkinson (1884-1927) was born on 18 November 1884 at Wimborne Minister. He attended Epsom College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and entered the Civil Service in 1908, joining the Colonial Office the following year. He served with the King's African Rifles, 1917-1919, and rejoined the Colonial Office in 1920. Parkinson became Assistant Secretary at the Dominions Office in 1925, and head of the East African department at the Colonial Office in 1928. Thereafter, he was appointed Assistant Under-Secretary of State in 1931, Permanent Under-Secretary of State in 1937, and Permanent Under-Secretary at the Dominions Office in 1940. He died on 16 August 1967 in Bournemouth.

Two letters to Sir William Clark, Chairman of the Council of the Royal Empire Society.

Presented by Sir William Clark.

Further information

Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 33. Indexed

Index Terms

Parkinson, Sir Arthur Charles Cosmo (1884-1967) Knight, politician

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