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Benn, William Wedgwood, (1877-1960), 1st Viscount Stansgate, statesman

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Alternative name(s):
  • Stansgate (Also known as)
Surname: Benn
Forenames: William Wedgwood
Gender: Male
Date: 1877-1960
Title: 1st Viscount Stansgate
Biography: ODNB link for Benn, William Wedgwood (1877-1960) 1st Viscount Stansgate, statesman
References: DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P274994 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P126656 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Wedgwood Benn
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1877-1960: corresp and papers
Parliamentary Archives
ST
NRA 20882

See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
2
1929-31: corresp with Lord Halifax
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur C 152
NRA 27436
3
1929-31: corresp with Lord Irwin (6 vols)
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
See HMC Benn file 1985
4
1939-40: corresp with Sir BH Liddell Hart
King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
KCLMA Liddell Hart B H
NRA 19291
5
1929-30: letters to David Lloyd George
Parliamentary Archives
LG
NRA 15700
6
1930-52: corresp with Lord Lothian
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD40
NRA 10737 Kerr
7
1920-53: corresp with David Low
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
GEN MSS 96
8
1929-34: corresp with Eleanor Rathbone
London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
7ELR
NRA 20625 Fawcett L Coll
9
1928-30: letters to Herbert Samuel
Parliamentary Archives
SAM
NRA 11187
10
1929-31: corresp with Sir Frederick Sykes
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur F 150
NRA 27540