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Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe, statesman

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Alternative name(s):
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Surname: Crewe-Milnes
Forenames: Robert Offley Ashburton
Gender: Male
Date: 1858-1945
Title: 1st Marquess of Crewe
History: Sec of State for the Colonies 1908-1910 and for India 1910-1915. President of the Board of Education 1916. Ambassador to Paris 1922-1928. Sec of State for War in 1931. Liberal leader in Lords 1936-1944. Succeeded as Lord Houghton 1885, Earl of Crewe.
Biography: ODNB link for Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe- (1858-1945) 1st Marquess of Crewe, statesman
References: DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P274877 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P135764 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
c1892-1939: corresp and papers (c150 boxes)
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Crewe
See Hazlehurst & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1951, 1974
2
1929-36: corresp and papers (11 vols) rel to Rosebery biography
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.10195-10205
NRA 22490 Primrose

See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989
3
1910-20: corresp and papers rel to India
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Hardinge
NRA 3853
4
1908-22: corresp and papers rel to Imperial College
Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
B/CREWE-MILNES
5
1906-14: letters to Lord Aberdeen rel to Ireland
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS55
NRA 9758
6
corresp with Herbert Asquith
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Asquith
NRA 12685
7
1911-40: letters from Margot Asquith
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS. Eng. c. 6674, c.6715 passim
NRA 42917
8
1915-16: corresp with Arthur James Balfour
British Library, Manuscript Collections
ADD MSS 49739 Passim
9
1899-1908: corresp with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 41213
10
1913-14: corresp with Austen Chamberlain
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
AC/14
NRA 12604 Chamberlain
11
c1923-28: letters to Austen Chamberlain
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
PHPP
NRA 19701

See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
12
1898-1915: corresp with Lord Cromer
The National Archives
FO633
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
13
1904-37: letters to William Montgomery Crook
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng hist d 384-401 passim
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
14
1922-24: corresp with Lord Curzon
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur F 111-12
NRA 20536
15
c1923-28: letters to Lord Curzon
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
PHPP
NRA 19701

See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
16
corresp with Alfred Deakin (c45 items)
National Library of Australia
MS 1540
NRA 25702
17
1923-28: corresp with 17th Earl of Derby
Liverpool Record Office
920 DER
NRA 20761
18
1906-21: corresp with Lord Emmott
Oxford University: Nuffield College Library
Emmott papers
NRA 17309 Emmott
19
1912-34: corresp with HAL Fisher (10 items)
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Fisher
NRA 16446 Fisher
20
1870-89: corresp with Lady Galway
Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
Ga 9201-Ga2I
NRA 6741
21
1886-1928: corresp with Lord Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 45996
22
1886-96: letters to WE Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 44499-522 passim
23
1894-1927: letters (57) to Sir Edmund Gosse
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
Library Publications no 3
NRA 9840 Gosse
24
1938-45: letters to the Guardian
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
Guardian archives
NRA 18162 Guardian
25
1908-31: corresp with Lord Haldane
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.5908-6036
26
replies to questions sent by JLLB Hammond
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Hammond
NRA 17022 Hammond
27
1909-21: corresp with Lewis Harcourt
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Harcourt
NRA 3679
28
1911-20: letters (c200) to Lord Hardinge
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Hardinge
NRA 3853

See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
29
1892-93: corresp with Lord Kimberley
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d 2439-92, e 2790-97
NRA 1274 Wodehouse
30
1914-1916: corresp with Lord Kitchener
The National Archives
WO 159
31
1914-16: corresp with Lord Kitchener
The National Archives
PRO 30/57
32
1912-22: corresp with Andrew Bonar Law
Parliamentary Archives
BL
NRA 19286
33
1932-37: corresp with Lord Lothian
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD40
NRA 10737 Kerr
34
c1923-28: letters to J Ramsay MacDonald
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
PHPP
NRA 19701

See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
35
1898-1913: corresp with Earl of Minto
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 12390-391, 12404-12407, 12448, 12679, 12788 Passim
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
36
1910-42: corresp with Mottistone
Oxford University: Nuffield College Library
MSS MOTTISTONE
37
1907-10: letters to Earl of Onslow
Surrey History Centre
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
38
1922-39: corresp with Sir Eric Phipps etc
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
PHPP
NRA 19701
39
1906-09: corresp with Lord Ripon
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 43552
40
1890-1933: corresp with Lord Rosebery
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 10088-10271 Passim
41
1916-45: letters to the Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
42
1905-23: corresp with Walter Runciman
Newcastle University: Special Collections
WR
NRA 13873
43
corresp with Herbert Samuel
Parliamentary Archives
SAM
NRA 11187
44
1903-17: corresp with Lord Selborne
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Selborne
NRA 17810
45
1912-13: corresp with Sir G Fleetwood Wilson
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur E 224
NRA 27483