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Catalogue description Treasury: Expired Commissions: Royal Commission on Honours
| Reference: | T 348 |
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| Title: | Treasury: Expired Commissions: Royal Commission on Honours |
| Description: |
The series comprises all the known surviving working files of the Royal Commission on Honours. |
| Date: | 1907-1923 |
| Related material: |
Selected files of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee are in |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Royal Commission on Honours, 1922-1923 |
| Physical description: | 4 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Cabinet Office, Ceremonial Secretariat |
| Custodial history: | The records were passed from the Treasury to the Civil Service Department in 1968; then to the Management and Personnel Office in 1981; and to the Cabinet Office in 1982. |
| Accumulation dates: | File series ran from 1922 to 1923 |
| Selection and destruction information: | The files have all been selected in accordance with the published Acquisition Policy paragraphs 2.2.1.1. |
| Accruals: | No future accruals expected |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Following some public clamour alleging honours could be purchased the Royal Commission was appointed under the chairmanship of Lord Dunedin to investigate the honours system and to make recommendations. Its report was published as command paper Cmd.1789. The Treasury provided the Secretary to the Royal Commission: J Rae. |
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