Simon, John Allsebrook, (1873-1954), 1st Viscount Simon, Lord Chancellor

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Surname:	Simon
Forenames:	John Allsebrook
Gender:	Male
Date:	1873-1954
Title:	1st Viscount Simon
History:	Home Secretary 1915-1916. Chair of Indian Statutory Commission 1927-1930, Foreign Secretary 1931-1935; Home Secretary 1935-1937; Chancellor of Exchequer 1937-1940; Lord Chancellor 1940-1945. Knighted 1938; Viscount 1940.
Biography:	ODNB link for Simon, John Allsebrook (1873-1954) 1st Viscount Simon, Lord Chancellor
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P274845 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P140066 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for John Allsebrook Simon

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1890-1953: corresp, diaries and papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Simon	NRA 24981 See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
2	1927-30: corresp, evidence and papers as Chairman of Indian Statutory Commission	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 77
3	1931-35: Foreign Office corresp (7 vols)	The National Archives	FO 800/285-91
4	papers incl scrapbooks, visitors' book and photographs	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		See HMC Lord Simon file, corresp March 1997
5	1898-99: letters (19) to Sir William Anson	Oxford University: All Souls College	Anson	NRA 30791 WR Anson
6	corresp with Asquith	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Asquith	NRA 12685
7	1911-22: corresp (19 items) with Bonar Law	Parliamentary Archives	BL	NRA 19286
8	corresp with Edward Carson	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D1507	NRA 17985 Carson
9	1931-45: corresp with Lord Cecil	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 51082
10	1926-49: corresp with Lord Cherwell	Oxford University: Nuffield College Library	CSAC 80.4.81	NRA 16447
11	1933: corresp with 17th Earl of Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 DER	NRA 20761
12	1905-23: letters to Lord Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 46062-085
13	1926-53: letters to AL Goodhart	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng c 2890	NRA 36176
14	1927-30: corresp with Lord Halifax	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur C 152	NRA 27436
15	1941-45: corresp with Lord Halifax	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	Halifax papers	NRA 8128 Wood
16	corresp with Sir Samuel Hoare	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Templewood Papers	NRA 42205 Hoare
17	1925-35: letters to David Lloyd George	Parliamentary Archives	LG	NRA 15700
18	1928-38: corresp with Lord Lothian	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD40	NRA 10737 Kerr
19	corresp with Lord Lugard	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Lugard	NRA 8555 Lugard
20	1896-1937: letters to the Manchester Guardian	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library	Guardian archives	NRA 18162 Guardian
21	1928-1953: corresp with Lord Monckton	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections	Dep Monckton	NRA 20879 Monckton
22	1913-50: corresp with Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Gilbert Murray	NRA 16865
23	1934-5: corresp with Sir Eric Phipps	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	PHPP	NRA 19701
24	1910-38: corresp with Walter Runciman	Newcastle University: Special Collections	WR	NRA 13873
25	1910-45: corresp with H Samuel	Parliamentary Archives	SAM	NRA 11187
26	1896-1897: letters (6) to Fanny Allsebrook and from CP Scott	Guardian News & Media Archive (formerly the Newsroom)	JSI
27	1880-1989: additional papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS. Eng. c. 6645-6650, d. 3240-3256, d. 3260-3261, e. 3279; Photogr. c. 111

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	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Simon, Kathleen, (1869-1955) Viscountess Simon, anti-slavery activist, DBE	spouse		Family