Eden, Robert Anthony, (1897-1977), 1st Earl of Avon, prime minister

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Alternative name(s):	Avon (Also known as)
Surname:	Eden
Forenames:	Robert Anthony
Gender:	Male
Date:	1897-1977
Title:	1st Earl of Avon
History:	Conservative MP 1923-1957. Foreign Secretary 1935-1938; Sec of State for the Dominions 1939; Sec of State for War 1940. Appointed Foreign Secretary and member of War Cabinet 1940-1945. Foreign Secretary 1951-1955; Prime Minister 1955-1957.
Biography:	ODNB link for Eden, Robert Anthony (1897-1977) 1st Earl of Avon, prime minister
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P274829 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P147822 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Robert Anthony Eden

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1935-1946: Foreign Office: Private Office Papers of Sir Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	The National Archives, Kew	FO 954
2	Papers of Sir Anthony Eden
3	1955: Proposal by the King of Iraq to decorate Sir Anthony Eden, Sir Claude Pelly and Sir M...	The National Archives, Kew	FO 372/7354
4	1951: MISCELLANEOUS (L): Resignation of Herbert Morrison and appointment of Anthony Eden as...	The National Archives, Kew	FO 370/2124
5	1957: STATE PAPERS (LS) LIBRARY AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENT (L). Publication and Return of...	The National Archives, Kew	FO 370/2536
6	corresp and papers	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	FO 954; AP	NRA 28779 Eden See Annual Return 2003
7	1951-55: Foreign Office papers	The National Archives	FO 800/750-851
8	1943-48: corresp with Clement Attlee	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Attlee	NRA 27633
9	1941-64: corresp with Lord Beaverbrook	Parliamentary Archives	BBK	NRA 19284 Aitken
10	1938-1962: corresp with Patrick Buchan-Hepburn	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	HAIS	NRA 24830 Buchan-Hepburn
11	1922-45: corresp with Lord Cecil	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51083
12	1943-57: corresp with Lord Cherwell	Oxford University: Nuffield College Library	CSAC 80.4.81	NRA 16447
13	1935-61: corresp with Lord Clark	Tate Gallery Archive	TGA 8812	NRA 32463 Clark
14	1943-1947: corresp with Duff Cooper	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	DUFC	NRA 31392
15	1931-1944: corresp with Sir Henry Page Croft	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CRFT	NRA 15709 Croft
16	1950-72: corresp (c75 items) with Desmond Donnelly	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Desmond Donnelly Papers/A38, A53, A77, A1039	NRA 41723
17	1934-65: corresp with PV Emrys Evans	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 58242
18	1941-46: corresp with Lord Halifax	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	Halifax papers	NRA 8128 Wood
19	1935-46: corresp with Sir Samuel Hoare	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Templewood Papers	NRA 42205 Hoare
20	1930-35: letters to Lord Howard of Penrith	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	DHW	NRA 23774 Howard
21	1940-41: corresp with Lord Keyes	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 82373-82578	NRA 13484
22	1934-54: corresp with Sir BH Liddell Hart	King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives	KCLMA Liddell Hart B H	NRA 19291
23	1934-37: corresp with Lord Lothian	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD40	NRA 10737 Kerr
24	1945-54: corresp with David Low	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	GEN MSS 96
25	1956-1971: corresp with Oliver Lyttelton	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CHAN	NRA 19700
26	corresp with Arthur Mann	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See Report 1985-1993
27	1947-1961: corresp with Lord Monckton	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections	Dep Monckton	NRA 20879 Monckton
28	1933-58: corresp with Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Gilbert Murray	NRA 16865
29	1936-1938: corresp with Sir Eric Phipps	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	PHPP	NRA 19701
30	1932-53: corresp with Lord Simon	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Simon	NRA 24981
31	1938-1940: corresp with Sir Edward Spears	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	SPRS	NRA 21961
32	1952-1953: corresp of him and his wife with Lady Spencer-Churchill	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CSCT	NRA 43521
33	1963-1971: corresp with Baron Strang	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	STRN	NRA 24829 Strang
34	1951-77: corresp with Sir RR Welensky and some misc papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Welensky	NRA 39191
35	1944-55: corresp with Lord Woolton	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Woolton	NRA 21829
36	1916-19: letters from the Front	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR 1886 Box 737/5, 835/175	NRA 21669 Warwick Castle MSS
37	1953-1977: publicity papers, material from Heads of Government Conference 1955, and papers on overseas visits	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	FICA
38	1937-1955: corresp with Leo Amery	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	AMEL
39	1937-1945: addnl papers	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	FO 954	See Annual Return 2014
40	1951-1955: papers	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	FO 800	See Annual Return 2014
41	c1930-1979: corresp and printed material originally intended for use in a proposed but unfinished biography of Eden	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	AP/41
42	1950: Menu card for the fourteenth annual dinner of 'The BTH Overseas Association', held on 29 September 1950 in the Masonic Hall, Rugby	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	AELAdd/50	See Annual Return 2020

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