Selwyn Lloyd

276 Pages·1989·25.084 MB·English

by  D.R. Thorpe

SELWYN
by the same author
THE UNCROWNED PRIME MINISTERS
A Study of Sir Austen Chamberlain,
Lord Curzon and Lord Butler LLOYD
D. R. Thorpe
JONATHAN CAPE
THIRTY-TWO BEDFORD SQUARE LONDON
First published 1989 For Michael Fraser
Copyright © 1989 by D. R. Thorpe
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Ca/m's not life's crown, though calm is well. Contents
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires.
MATIHEW ARNOLD, Youth and Calm
Preface xm
Acknowledgments xxv
Abbreviations xxvu
1 A Middle Class Lawyer from Liverpool 1
2 Cambridge and Liberalism 25
3 Mr Hoylake UDC 44
4 Willingly to War 65
5 Member for the Wirral 96
6 'The Father of Commercial Television' 115
7 On the Ladder 144
8 His Master's Voice? 180
,9--_, Suez 208
<io ·
Macmillan's Foreign Secretary 269
fi 11 Chancellor of the Exchequer 307
i2 The Night of the Long Knives 336
13 Rehabilitation 364
14 In Opposition 391
15 Mr Speaker 411
16 Who Goes Home? 435
APPENDIX A Report of the Broadcasting Committee
(1949): Minority Report submitted by Mr Selwyn Lloyd 446
APPENDIX B The Chancellor of the Exchequer's
letter of 23 September 1961 inviting bodies to join the
National Economic Development Council 458
Notes 461
Select Bibliography 490
Index 506
Illustrations
PLATES
between pages 4 and 5
l Selwyn in early childhood, with his mother
2 Dorice, Eileen and Selwyn
3 Selwyn and Rachel
4 Edwardian motoring, 1906
5 Selwyn in a Fettes tug-of-war, 1923
between pages 36 and 37
6 Graduation day at Cambridge
7 When the world was young, 1926
8 David Lloyd George at Criccieth
between pages 68 and 69
9 Megan Lloyd George, l 929
IO Selwyn at a Liberal Summer School, 1927
l l Chairman of the Hoylake Council, 1938
12 General Montgomery with Lt-Generals Bradley and Dempsey,
1944
13 HM King George VI knighting Dempsey in the field, 1944
between pages IOO and IOI ·
14 Selwyn Lloyd, K. C., 1947
15 Selwyn and Alexander visiting Commonwealth troops in Korea,
1952
16 At the United Nations, 1952
between pages I¢ and I97
17 Selwyn and Bae setting off for the Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth Il, 1953
x List of Illustrations List of Illustrations xi
18 Dr John Wesley Lloyd in benign old age Musical chairs (Vicky, Daily Mirror, 16 January 1957) page272
19 Minister of Defence, 1955 The Times's paper dart (Cummings, June 1959) 292
20 Measuring up the new Foreign Secretary, 1955 The Night of the Long Knives 348
(Cummings, Sunday Express, 15 July 1962)
between pages 228 and 229
2 l The visit of Bulganin and Khrushchev, 1956
22 John Foster Dulles and Selwyn
23 Selwyn with Eden, 1958
between pages 292 and 293
24 HM the Queen, with her Foreign Secretary and the Duke of
Norfolk, 1958
25 The 1959 General Election: nomination day in the Wirral
constituency
26 Selwyn with Joanna and Sambo, 196o
between pages 324 and 325
27 Macmillan with Selwyn in Russia, 1959
28 Macmillan with President Kennedy, 1961
29 Receiving an honorary degree at Oxford, 1960
30 With the Profumos, 1961
between pages 356 and 357
31 The approach of Budget Day, 1961
32 Inaugural meeting of the National Economic Development
Council, 1962
33 After the storm, 1962
34 Relaxing at S' Agaro, 1962
35 The jaunty cavalier, 1963
between pages 388 and 389
36 Welcoming the Prince of Wales to Speaker's House
37 Listening to Black Rod from the Speaker's Chair, 1974
38 Seventieth birthday party, 1974
39 A Garden Party at Hilbre House, 1976
CARTOONS
An open letter to Eden (Vicky, 3 January 1956) endpapers
Heaven preserve me from my friends! (Cummings, page255
Daily Express, 12 October 1956)
Preface
Political biographies come in many shapes and sizes but until recently
have tended to fall into one of two categories. There are the bio
graphies written shortly after the death of the subject, such as Keith
Feiling's Life of Neville Chamberlain or Nigel Fisher's Iain Macleod,
that have the benefit of personal knowledge of the contemporary
personalities, but without access to the public records. On the other
hand there are the biographies, such as Roy Jenkins's Asquith or
David Marquand's Ramsay Macdonald, written a generation or more
after the events they describe, with the gain of a longer historical
perspective and full access to the public as well as the private papers.
Both approaches have their obvious advantages and disadvantages.
The relaxation under the Thirty Year Rule since 1967 has, how
ever, increasingly led to a further type of political biography, Ben
Pimlott's Hugh Dalton for instance, in which the advantages of both
the 'historical' and the 'contemporary' approach can be judiciously
combined. Now a biographer can see at the Public Record Office the
correspondence and minutes of a political figure he may be interview
ing later in the same week, an experience which can sometimes be as
disconcerting for the politician as it can be rewarding for the inter
viewer. Whether this more open policy will lead, as many politicians
now 'on view' at the Public Record Office think, to a greater caution
in expressing frank opinions on paper and an increasing blandness in
future Cabinet minutes and conclusions, it does at present provide a
vivid opportunity for chronicling the lives of those who took up high
government office in the decade after the Second World War. The
biographies of figures such as Attlee, Bevin, Butler, Eden and
Gaitskell are radically different from those initially written about the
comparable figures of the 1920s and 1930s.
It has been my aim in writing the life of Selwyn Lloyd to combine
the immediacy of personal recollections with a study of both the
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government records and the relevant private archives. The sudden like a stuck machine gun - the words would not come out - yet in
and comparatively early death of Selwyn Lloyd in 1978 enabled me to committee and on paper he was efficiently fluid, though never prolix.
interview nearly 400 of his political contemporaries (those who had Selwyn Lloyd was always conscious of the part that luck played in
pre-deceased him I had in the main interviewed in connection with an politics. Unlike many of his Labour Party friends, Sidney Silverman
earlier book in the 1970s), while under the Thirty Year Rule I have for instance, he had the good fortune that thirteen years of Conserva
been able to see material in the public domain up to the end of 1957, tive rule coincided with the time he was at the appropriate level of
including, with the permission of the Lord Chancellor, a few selected seniority within his party and consequently he spent twelve of those
papers dated between 1957 and 196o which deal with some later thirteen years on the front bench. After the General Election of
aspects of the Suez Canal crisis and which were made available ahead October 1951 he was appointed Minister of State, the last politician to
of. the usual thirty-year period. 1 hold that Foreign Office post by himself. In October 1954 he was
Selwyn Lloyd's career in post-war politics was unique ~oth for its promoted to the Ministry of Supply ('Supply of what?' asked one
variety and for the bitter controversies it generated. His name will colleague when congratulating him) and when Anthony Eden be
always be linked with the Suez crisis and with his attempt, as came·Prime Minister in April 1955 he made Selwyn Lloyd Minister of
Chancellor of the Exchequer, at an incomes policy. For a man of Defence, the crucial promotion into the first division of Cabinet
great sensitivity who did his best in personal relationships to avoid posts. By now he was firmly on the ladder and eight months later was
'the life of telegrams and anger' it was a source of great pain that in Foreign Secretary. But as Selwyn Lloyd was later to write, 'All was
1962 some constituents would shun him in the streets of West Kirby as well until I became Foreign Secretary. '3 In retrospect the Foreign
'the man who was unfair to nurses'. 2 Office was the wrong square of the chessboard on which to have
There is more to Selwyn Lloyd's career than Suez and the 'pay alighted at that particular moment and how differently things might
pause', large though both loom, and there is more than one paradox. have turned out if he had been Chancellor of the Exchequer first, like
The range of offices he held between 1951 and 1976 is without Sir Austen Chamberlain before him and Sir Geoffrey Howe after
political parallel in recent times. Like Bottom the Weaver (a role he wards. Despite Suez (or rather because of it) Harold Macmillan
once played at school) he 'undertook' many parts. Although Selwyn retained Selwyn Lloyd as Foreign Secretary on becoming Prime
Lloyd was never Home Secretary (he was, however, offered the Minister in January 1957, commenting that one head on a charger was
post), he held the other two great offices of state - Foreign Secretary enough. Unfortunately for Selwyn Lloyd this was not a principle that
and Chancellor of the Exchequer - and remains the only twentieth operated on Friday 13 July 1962 when his two-year tenure of the
century example of a Leader of the House of Commons becoming Treasury ended in the most dramatic political blood-letting of the
Speaker and, despite other former ministers such as W. S. Morrison post-war era. Yet just over a year later the central victim of the Night
(later Lord Dunrossil) and George Thomas (later Lord Tonypandy), of the Long Knives was back as Leader of the House of Commons and
the only Speaker to have held such high, and controversial, office in 1971 came the most surprising apotheosis of all as he crowned his
beforehand. One ·has to go back to the days of Grenville and career with the Speakership.
Addington at the turn of the eighteenth century to find Speakers Selwyn Lloyd was always determined that his biography should be
(both of whom became Prime Minister) for whom the Speakership written one day, suggesting to Bertie Hesmondalgh at the Foreign
was but one staging post in a long line of important offices. The fact Office that he might like to take it on. In the 196os Emrys Hughes, a
that Selwyn Lloyd could be embroiled in the bitterness of Suez and prolific biographer of contemporary figures, began desultory prep
the passions aroused by t,he pay pause, yet subsequently become arations but they did not come to fruition. After his death Selwyn
Speaker of the House of Commons, is one of the central paradoxes Lloyd's papers were deposited at Churchill College, Cambridge ('I
and one of the most significant facts in an understanding of the view have done my best to sort out my papers and leave them in as
his contemporaries held of him. Other paradoxes are that at certain convenient form as possible for anyone who wishes to take the
times he appeared to be a cipher, the staff officer for the leading trouble to look at them', wrote Selwyn)4 and in 1984 I was invited to
general, yet at other times (particularly during his membership of the be his biographer. When Harold Nicolson began his biography of
Beveridge Committee on Broadcasting) he was innovative and inde King George V .he wrote in his diary that it was rather like setting out
pendent; under harsh parliamentary questioning he often seemed in a taxi to Vladivostock. Now I can sympathise with this feeling and
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would like to record my gratitude to all those who have made my College, Cambridge (Catalogue SELO); on other private family
journey possible. papers, not at Churchill College; on the Government records in
My first and most manifold debt is to the literary executors of the the Public Record Office at Kew and on many other private archives,
Lord Selwyn-Lloyd estate - Mr Michael Marshall, Mr Anthony details of which can be found in the bibliography.
Shone and Mr Christopher Spence - for entrusting me with the Although the movements of modern political life are not recorded
responsibility of writing Selwyn Lloyd's biography, for granting me in correspondence to anything like the same extent as was customary
access to the vast collection of his papers at Churchill College, for among politicians in the first thirty years of the century (Sir Austen
introducing me to his relations and for welcoming me among their Chamberlain's family letters were in themselves the basis of a large
own families at so many stages during the realisation of this project. If autobiographical volume), but have usually vanished on whatever
the completed biography gives an accurate account of Selwyn Lloyd's desert air surrounded the telephone or taxi of the moment, Selwyn
life it is in large part owing to the unstinted help and encouragement I Lloyd has left through his correspondence with his family in the
have received from his literary executors, who have put every facility Wirral, a comprehensive and weekly record of his political activity
at my disposal but who have never sought to alter my view of him or over fifty years. This, like the Chamberlain family letters, essentially
the way in which I have used those facilities. derived from the combination of having a metropolitan political base
I would next like to thank the Hon. Joanna Lloyd for talking to me and a provincial constituency where the roots were strong and
~bout her father and for the many insights she was uniquely able to enduring. On 29 January 1922 Selwyn Lloyd wrote home to his
afford me. I am much indebted also to Mrs Martin Lubbock for her parents from Fettes College, 'I am reading Morley's Life of Gladstone
understanding and sympathetic help in speaking to me about her at present. I notice one o( the things Morley says is "Youth will
former husband and for her help over the biography. commonly do anything rather than write letters" - a true enough
At the outset of the project I was able to speak to Mrs A. Howard remark in the majority of cases, but certainly not in mine. '5 Such
Shone, Selwyn Lloyd's eldest sister, about her brother's life from the correspondence has been invaluable in the preparation of this
time of his birth to the Memorial Service in Westminster Abbey and it biography.
is my greatest regret that Mrs Shone was not to live to read the Among the effects of Max Beerbohm's wife were boxes labelled
biography of a brother who was devoted to her. To Mrs Ronald Pieces of string too small to use. Selwyn Lloyd, in part because of his
Clayton, Selwyn Lloyd's youngest sister, I extend my grateful thanks legal training, had a similar passion for hoarding and aimed to keep,
for speaking to me on several occasions about her brother, for within the rules for servants of the Crown, every document of family
introducing me to members of her family, all of whom had their own or public significance. The archive at Churchill College therefore
individual memories to offer and for reading the book in typescript. contains the paperwork of a lifetime. There is scarcely a single file
Other members of the family have been very generous with their within the 495 boxes that does not yield up some insight into Selwyn
hospitality and time and I would particularly like to thank Mrs Lloyd's life and times. Dr Edwin Brooks, MP from 1966-70 for the
Anthony Shone for all her kindness and cheerful encouragement. I neighbouring constituency of Bebington, vividly recalls Selwyn
would also like to record my gratitude to Mrs John Keighley, Mr and Lloyd remonstrating with him over what Selwyn thought his some
Mrs David Shone, Mr John Shone, Mr and Mrs Patrick Shone and what cavalier attitude to the retention of his parliamentary papers,
Brigadier David and Mrs Stileman; to Mrs Michael Marshall; to Miss which had just been sent to the Bebington Council's furnaces for
Anne Clayton, Mr Christopher Clayton and Mr David Clayton; and disposal. Selwyn Lloyd was of the firm belief that it was the res
to Miss Emma Shone, Miss Lucy Shone and Mr Peter Shone. ponsibility of all politicians to keep their papers for the use of
In the early stages I received vital help from Dr Eric Anderson, future historians, one of many ways in which he differed from lain
Lord Fraser of Kilmorack, Mr Anthony Howard, Lord Jenkins of Macleod.
Hillhead and Mr Kenneth Rose and to them I would like to record my If it is important to understand the machinery of government, it is
special thanks. equally important to understand the men who operate that machine. I
have, therefore, sought help from figures who were closely involved
The bulk of the book is based upon the 495 boxes of private and in the events described and have spoken with many who have recalled
political papers deposited in the Archives Centre at Churchill their memories of Selwyn Lloyd, given me generous hospitality,
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found photographs, memorabilia, documents and given leads to John Kemp-Welch, His Honour Alan King-Hamilton, Dr Lionel and
further useful contacts. Without such help I would not have been able Mrs King-Lewis, Mr Peter King-Lewis, Mr Keith Kyle, Lord Lamb
to complete this study. As many of these interviews were on a ton, Mr R. J. Langridge, the late Sir Denis Laskey, Lady Laskey, Sir
non-attributable basis the reader will find few direct references in the John Leahy, Lord Leverhulme, Sir Donald Logan, Mr Martin Lub
notes as to the source of such verbal information. However, no fact is bock, Mr and MrsP. B. Lucas, MrC. D. Lush, MrMichaelMcAfee,
included unless it came from an unimpeachable source or was inde Mr Alasdair Macdonald, Mr David Machin, Mr and Mrs Michael
pendently corroborated. Among those who spoke to me about McRitchie, the late Lord Mancroft, Lord Mayhew, Lord Mellish, Mr
Selwyn Lloyd, and to whom I am deeply indebted, were: Sir Antony Norman Miscampbell, the Hon. Sir Charles Morrison, Mr Ferdinand
Acland, the Hon. Lady Aitken, Mr Jonathan Aitken, the Rev. Mount, His Honour Judge Nance, Sir John Nicholson, Sir Anthony
William and Mrs Aitken, Lord Aldington, Mr John Foster Allan, Mr Nutting, Mr Roger Opie, Lord Orr-Ewing, Col. Michael Osborn, Sir
Julian Amery, Major the Hon. Sir John Astor, the Countess of Avon, Thomas and Lady Padmore, Mr Colin Peterson, Lord Peyton, Sir
Lord Barber, Sir Harold Beeley, Mr John Behrend, Mr and Mrs David Pitblado, Mr Enoch Powell, Sir Richard Powell, Sir John and
Glanvill Benn, Mr Ray Bernie, Col. T. S. Bigland, His Honour Lady Prideaux, Major Robert Priestley, Mr and Mrs John Profumo,
Judge Bingham, Lord and Lady Blake, Lord Boyd-Carpenter, Sir Lord and Lady Pym, the late Lord Ramsey of Canterbury, Lady
Ashley Bramall, Lord Briggs, Dr Edwin Brooks, Lord and Lady Ramsey, Mr James Reeve, Sir Patrick Reilly, Mr Robert Rhodes
Broxbourne, Lady Butler of Saffron Walden, Sir Robin Butler, Lord James, Sir Brooks Richards, Sir Derek Riches, Sir Denis and Lady
Caccia, Sir Alec Cairncross, Dame Olwen Carey Evans, Lord Carr, Rickett, the late Lord Roberthall, Mr Peter Robinson, Mr Kenneth
Lord and Lady Carrington, Miss Susan Carter, Sir Bryan Cartledge, Rose, Sir Archibald and Lady Ross, Mr and Mrs Ian Samuel, Mr and
Mr E. G. Cass, Mr T. H. Caulcott, Mrs Charles-Edwards, His Mrs Hugh Scurfield, Lord Shawcross, Lord Sherfield, Sir Robert
Honour Gordon Clover and Mrs Clover, the late Sir John Colville, Shone, Sir Evelyn and Lady Shuckburgh, the late Mr Henry Silcock,
Mr John Corner, Sir John Coulson, M. Maurice Couve de Murville, Mr Nicholas Smith, the late Lord Soames, Sir Robert and Lady
Mr and Mrs Donald Crichton-Miller, the late Lord Crowther-Hunt, Speed, MrC. J. Spence, Mr Anthony Steen, Mr Gilbert Stephenson,
MrT. 0. Crundwell, Sir John Davis, Sir Patrick Dean, LordDeedes, the late Lord Stockton, Vice Admiral Sir FitzRoy Talbot, Mr Cecil
Lord and Lady Devlin, Professor David Dilks, Mr P. V. Dixon, Sir Taylor, Sir John Temple, Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, Mr Bruce
Douglas Dodds-Parker, the late Lord Drumalbyn, Sir Antony Duff, Thompson, Sir Peter Thorne, Lord Thorneycroft, Sir John
Sir James Dunnett, Mr Neil Durden-Smith, Dr James and Mrs Dyce, and Dame Guinevere Tilney, Lord Tonypandy, Councillor F. W.
Mr George Eustance, the Rt Rev. Douglas Feaver, Mr Clive Fenn Venables, Brigadier Richard Vernon, Mr Peter Vinter, Mr Peter
Smith, Sir Nigel and Lady Fisher, Sir John Ford, Lord Franks, Lord Walker, Sir Douglas Wass, Lord and Lady Watkinson, Mr and Mrs
and Lady Fraser of Kilmorack, Sir Edward Gardner, Lord and Lady J. S. Watson, Mr Bernard Weatherill, Lord Whitelaw, Sir Michael
Gladwyn, Lord Glendevon, Sgt W.S. and Mrs Golding, Sir Samuel Wilford, Lord Wilson of Rievaulx, Mr Bill Wood, Miss Emily
Goldman, the late'Sir William Gorell Barnes, Lady Gorell Barnes, Wright, Mr Harold Wright and Sir Philip de Zulueta.
Sir John Graham, Mr John Graham, the late Sir Hugh Greene, Lord I was also able to talk earlier about the political scene in the 1950s
Grimond, Sir Michael Hadow, Lord Hailsham, Mr W. N. Hanna, and 1960s with public figures now dead: Lord Boothby, Lord Butler
Brigadier Sir Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts, the late Lady Hardy of Saffron Walden, Sir Knox Cunningham, Mr Peter Goldman, Mr
Roberts, Mr Leslie Hargreaves, Sir Thomas Harley, the late Mr Ian Reginald Maudling and Sir Austin Strutt, all of whom gave me
Harvey, Lord Harvington, Sir William and Lady Hayter, the Rev. insights into issues raised in this book.
Andrew Henderson, Mr Peter Hennessy, Mr Bertram Hesmon The following corresponded with me about Selwyn Lloyd and I am
dalgh, Mrs Kathleen Hill, Lord Home of the Hirsel, Sir Peter Hope, grateful to them for their contributions: Nayef Al-Kadi, Mr Charles
Mr Alistair Horne, Lord Houghton, the late Mr Bill Housden, Mr Appleton, Mr L. J. Campbell, Lord Eccles, Sefior Josep Ensesa, Mr
Michael Howard, Mrs Joy Howard Davies, the late Mr T. E. B. Peter Henderson, Lord Hill of Luton, Mr George Hodson, Sir Bryan
Howarth, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Mr David Hubback, Mr David Hunt, Hopkin, Mr C. I. R. Hunter, M. Marwan S. Kasim, Dr Joseph Luns,
Mrs Irene Hunter, Mr Anthony Hunter-Tilney, Lord Inchyra, Lord Sir Donald MacDougall, Mr Nigel Nicolson, Mr Michael Noakes, M.
Jenkins of Hillhead, Sir Alexander Johnston, Mr Aubrey Jones, Mrs Christian Pineau, Mr Timothy Raison, Mr John Rigg, Mrs John
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Barry Ryan, the late Lord Shinwell, Miss Helen Snow and Her Grace Hoylake, showed me round the former Council Chamber of the
Viola, the late Dowager Duchess of Westminster. Hoylake Urban District Council. In 1984, the 4oth anniversary of
D-Day, public access was possible to HMS Dryad, Southwick House
It was said by the Duke of Windsor that nobody could understand his and places associated with the final logistical planning of the Overlord
father, King George V, who had not seen York Cottage, Sandring operation. The Prime Minister gave permission for me to see the
ham. I believe that the 'spirit of place' is the third vital area of complex of government offices based in 10 Downing Street and I am
research for a biographer and I am grateful to those who have shown grateful to Sir Robin Butler for showing me the Cabinet Room, the
me or afforded me access to places of importance in Selwyn Lloyd's State Dining Room (where Selwyn Lloyd in company with Anthony
life. Firstly I am grateful to Mr Anthony Shone and Mr Christopher Eden heard news of the nationalisation of the Suez Canal on 26 July
Spence for taking me to the houses in which Selwyn lived, from his 1956) and other rooms in II and 12 Downing Street connected with
birth place, Red Bank in West Kirby, to Lower Farm House, Preston the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Whips Office. The Prime
Crowmarsh, where he died. I am particularly grateful to Mr George Minister and the Trustees of the Chequers Estate generously allowed
Eustance for arranging a tour of 32 Queen's Road, Hoylake, now an me to visit Chequers where Selwyn Lloyd lived intermittently be
Abbeyfield Home. Thanks to the Rev. Ronald Pearce and Mr A. Hall tween 1957 and 1962. I am grateful to Mr Kenneth Stacey, Secretary
I was able to visit the Westbourne Road Methodist Church, West to the Chequers Estate, for arranging this visit and to the late Wing
Kirby and see the Baptismal Register there. In Liverpool I was able to Commander Vera Thomas, Curator of Chequers, and to Chief Petty
see the various properties in Rodney Street associated with the Lloyd Officer Wren Dorothy Haynes for showing me round this historic
family and to visit the Shaftesbury Hotel. The late Mr Henry Silcock, property and for providing information about Selwyn Lloyd's tenure.
Headmaster of the Leas School, Hoylake, took me on a tour of The Chequers Visitors' Book, as it related to Selwyn Lloyd's career,
Selwyn Lloyd's preparatory school (in what proved to be the last was of inestimable help in establishing his movements at certain key
months before its closure)' did research for me in the records there moments. The Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, kindly
and made available otherwise unobtainable material. To the former arranged for me to visit the Foreign Office and in addition to showing
headmaster of Fettes College, Edinburgh, Mr Cameron Cochrane, I me the Secretary of State's room there and the accommodation at 1
owe grateful thanks for giving me residential facilities at Fettes to Carlton Gardens, the Foreign Secretary's official London residence,
study Selwyn Lloyd's books in the Selwyn Lloyd Memorial Library provided a full tour of the Foreign Office. I am particularly grateful
(including his marked copies of Hansard) and for finding much for this privilege and to Mr Albert Marshall, who conducted me on
correspondence in the records at Fettes in connection with Selwyn my visit to the Minister of State's offices. I am grateful to Mr P. V.
Lloyd, in particular his charitable activities for the school. I would Dixon, Secretary to the Council of the National Economic Develop
also like to thank Mr R. A. Cole-Hamilton, Mr Kenneth Collier and ment Office, who arranged my visit to the NEDC and provided me
Mr Michael Leslie, who helped over the Fettes section. At Cam with the records of Selwyn Lloyd's time as Chairman. The Speaker of
bridge I am grateful to Mr N. J. Hancock for making available to me the House of Commons, Mr Bernard Weatherill, kindly showed me
the records of the Union Society, now deposited at the University the private apartments of Speaker's House, and arranged a tour for
Library, and for arranging my visit to the Union itself. The staff of the me of the public rooms. I am grateful to Mr R. J. Canter and Mr P. L.
University Library, particularly in the Official Publications Depart Warwick for their help over this visit.
ment, were of great help, as was Dr Timothy Hobbs and the staff of
Trinity College Library for their help over Lord Butler of Saffron None of this would have been possible without the understanding
Walden's papers. I was also able to visit the Pepys Library at help of the Governing Body of Charter house and the Headmaster,
Magdalene College and other places of Cambridge association. Rear Mr Peter Attenborough, who afforded me sabbatical leave to research
Admiral C. M. Bevan, Treasurer of Gray's Inn, afforded me every the book. I am grateful to the Master of Churchill College, Cambridge,
facility for visiting Selwyn Lloyd's Inn of Court and I am grateful to Sir Hermann Bondi, the Fellows and the Archives Committee of the
Mrs Thom, the Librarian, for showing me round and providing copies College for then electing me to an Archives Fellow Commonership.
of material at Gray's Inn relating to Selwyn Lloyd's legal career. In The Churchill Archives Centre, which holds the papers of nearly
the Wirral, Mrs C. A. Prato, Information Officer at the Town Hall, three hundred persons, is the only British equivalent of one of the