Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley, (1881-1959), 1st Earl of Halifax, statesman

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Alternative name(s):	Halifax (Also known as)
Surname:	Wood
Forenames:	Edward Frederick Lindley
Gender:	Male
Date:	1881-1959
Title:	1st Earl of Halifax
History:	Viceroy of India 1925-1931. Secretary of State for War 1935. Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords 1935-1937. Lord President of the Council 1937. Foreign Secretary 1938-1941. Ambassador to Washington 1941-1946. Baron Irwin 1925; Viscount Halifax 1932.
Biography:	ODNB link for Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley (1881-1959) 1st Earl of Halifax, statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P274846 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P146873 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Edward Frederick Lindley Wood

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	Halifax, Viscount: Miscellaneous Correspondence
2	1926-31: corresp and papers rel to India	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur C 152	NRA 27436
3	1938-40: corresp	The National Archives	FO 800/309-28
4	corresp and papers	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	Halifax papers	NRA 8128 Wood See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
5	1922-1957: copy corresp and papers	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	HLFX
6	1929-31: corresp with William Wedgewood Benn	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		See HMC Benn corresp file May 1985
7	1926-42: corresp with Lord Cecil	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51084
8	1939-40: corresp with Lord Chatfield	The National Archives	CAB 127/130
9	1938-1940: corresp with Lord Croft	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	CRFT	NRA 15709 Croft
10	1931-51: corresp with LG Curtis	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Curtis; Eng hist b 224, c 776-877	NRA 21614
11	1926-31: letters to Geoffrey Dawson	News UK Archive		NRA 19359 The Times
12	1925-37: corresp with Lord Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 DER	NRA 20761
13	c1932-36: corresp with Lord Dufferin	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D1071	NRA 5700 Blackwood
14	1925-39: corresp with HAL Fisher	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Fisher	NRA 16446 Fisher
15	1928-34: corresp with Goodhart-Rendel and Lewis, architects	Royal Institute of British Architects	G-Reh/25/5	NRA 34216 Goodhart-Rendel
16	1926-27: corresp with Lord Goschen	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur D 595	NRA 27452
17	1930-31: letters from Lord Hailey	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur E 220	NRA 27482
18	1939-1941: corresp with MPA Hankey	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	HNKY	NRA 31396
19	1936-1940: corresp with AV Hill	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	AVHL	NRA 28116
20	corresp with Sir Samuel Hoare	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Templewood Papers	NRA 42205 Hoare
21	1923-39: corresp with Lord and Lady Kennet	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Kennet	NRA 12509 Young
22	corresp with Sir Terence Keyes	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 131	NRA 27529
23	1936-39: corresp with Sir BH Liddell Hart	King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives	KCLMA Liddell Hart B H	NRA 19291
24	1918-23: letters from George Ambrose Lloyd	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur B 158	See Annual Report 1959-60
25	1929: letters to David Lloyd George	Parliamentary Archives	LG	NRA 15700
26	1936-42: letters to Lord Londonderry	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D3099	NRA 19803 Stewart
27	1932-40: corresp with Lord Lothian	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD40	NRA 10737 Kerr
28	1925-27: corresp with Earl of Lytton	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 160	NRA 25554
29	1941-50: letters to Albert Mansbridge	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 65253
30	1898-1938: letters to Francis Meynell	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D861, 4324, 4359	NRA 28038 Meynell
31	1940-1953: corresp with Lord Monckton	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections	Dep Monckton	NRA 20879 Monckton
32	1934-52: corresp with Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Gilbert Murray	NRA 16865
33	1938-1939: corresp with Sir Eric Phipps	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	PHPP	NRA 19701
34	1910-39: letters to Athelstan Riley	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 2346-48 passim
35	1942-1946: corresp, incl speech notes, with CEM Roberts	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	RBTS	NRA 23858
36	1937-38: letters to Lord Samuel	Parliamentary Archives	SAM	NRA 11187
37	1917-52: corresp with Earl of Selborne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Selborne	NRA 17810
38	1925-53: corresp with Lord Simon	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Simon	NRA 24981
39	1927-30: corresp with John Simon	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 77	NRA 28584
40	corresp with Lord Stonehaven	National Library of Australia	MS 2127	NRA 22806 Baird

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