Catalogue description Treasury: Papers of Lord Bridges

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Reference: T 273
Title: Treasury: Papers of Lord Bridges
Description:

Papers of Edward Bridges (1st Lord Bridges) accumulated during his term of appointment as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Official Head of the Civil Service from 1945 to 1956.

The series is divided into three areas: establishments, economic and financial, and Sir Horace Wilson's papers. The series also includes papers from Sir Richard Hopkins' (1942-1945) and Sir Warren Fisher's (1919-1939) time as Permanent Secretaries to the Treasury and of Sir Horace Wilson (1939-1942) during his appointment as special adviser to the Prime Minister during the Munich Crisis of 1938.

A wide range of subjects are covered, mostly connected with administrative matters, appointments, the activities of various committees and commissions, economic and financial policy, and the machinery of government. The series also includes papers on the Inquiry into the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock.
Date: 1920-1957
Arrangement:

Chronological within subject
Related material:

See also T 269
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Edward Ettingdene Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges, 1892-1969

Sir Norman Fenwick Warren Fisher, Knight, 1879-1948

Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins, 1880-1955

Sir Horace John Wilson, Knight, 1882-1972
Physical description: 443 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1986 Treasury
Selection and destruction information: Pieces 411-443 were not part of the records of papers transferred from the Civil Service Department to the Treasury to form the Bridges collection.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Lord (Sir Edward Ettingdene) Bridges was born in 1892. He served briefly in the Treasury during the First World War and again from 1919 through to his retirement in 1956 apart from his appointment as Secretary to the Cabinet from 1938 to 1945. Lord Bridges died in 1969.

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